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Greg Fox, executive vice president, Operations, plans to retire after more than 30 years with the railroad. Fox has served in that role since November 2010.
Succeeding Fox as executive vice president, Operations, will be Dave Freeman effective June 1. Freeman will oversee the entire Operations organization, including Engineering, Environmental, Mechanical, Operations Support, Transportation, Safety and Training, Service Design, and Resource Protection.
Fox plans to remain with BNSF through August to ensure ...
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These wildflowers are firewheels, also known as Indian blankets, and right now they're covering much of BNSF Railway's headquarters campus in Fort Worth, Texas. They're part of a BNSF sustainability initiative that has already saved 2.5 million gallons of water.
Since October 2015, the railroad has ...
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Ninety-six Crowley Maritime Corporation owned or managed vessels recently received the Chamber of Shipping of America (CSA)’s annual Jones F. Devlin Awards in recognition of their outstanding safety records in 2015. Each year the CSA grants Devlin Award certificates to manned merchant vessels that have operated for ...
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Gearing up for when the expanded Panama Canal opens next week, the Panama Canal conducted another successful trial transit in the Expanded Canal. The transiting vessel, a U.S.-built crane ship named the Oceanus, was maneuvered through the Pacific-facing Cocoli Locks by Panama Canal Pilots Fernando ...
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Crowley Liner Services, which operates the largest cargo terminal at Port Everglades, has entered into a new 10-year, $157.8 million lease and operating agreement with the Broward County Board of County Commissioners for a 99-acre marine terminal at Port Everglades. The agreement also includes two five-year ...
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With June 30 being the date for implementing new container weighing requirements, Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission Mario Cordero is urging ocean carriers to embrace the obvious solution to achieving compliance that Marine Terminal Operators can offer.
Specifically, Cordero asserted the weight of export containers, ...
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According to Forecast, a collaboration between the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and IHS Global Insight, overall freight tonnage will grow 23.5% from 2013 to 2025 and freight revenues will surge 72%.
“We continue to see growth for the entire freight economy – but we also see ...
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The world’s largest cargo plane, the Antonov An-225 Mriya (AN-225), took its first voyage from Ukraine to Abu Dhabi carrying a shipment handled by Freightworks, the WACO System member for the UAE.
The six-engine, 600-tonne aircraft, which has twice the wing area of a Boeing 747, ...
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Mainfreight, a global supply chain and logistics provider, announces the addition of two new warehouses to its North American logistics network. They're located in Newark, NJ and Dallas, TX.
The Newark facility is 135,000 sq. ft., and Dallas is 129,000 sq. ft. Mainfreight's logistics network also ...
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Mallory Alexander International Logistics has opened an office in Houston, Texas as part of ongoing expansion plans.
The office, headed by Brenda Goodrich and her team, is the third location that Mallory Alexander operates in the southern US state and specializes in supporting customers, not only ...
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