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The World Trade Center New Orleans, or WTCNO hopes to utilize comprehensive analysis to optimize global commodity flows and maximize the economic benefits of the Lower Mississippi River region.
The Lower Mississippi River Commodity Analysis represents a collaborative effort between Louisiana’s five-deep draft ports along the Lower Mississippi River – the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, the Port of South Louisiana, the Port of New Orleans, St. Bernard Port, Harbor and ...
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Fast-moving changes in supply chains across the world are more complex and unexpected than ever says international freight and cargo handling insurer.
A recent bulletin from TT Club, mutual insurance and related risk management services to the international transport and logistics industry, focuses on drug smuggling ...
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Trailer Bridge Inc., the Jacksonville, Florida-based full-service transportation provider, said it has partnered with technology provider Highway to enhance its tech stack and better support its customers and carrier partners.Highway specializes in Carrier Identity® solutions for brokers, providing the necessary data to reduce fraud and ...
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Trailer Bridge Inc. said it is partnering with freight intelligence company GenLogs to support the transport provider’s growing logistics division.The collaboration leverages GenLogs’ nationwide network of sensors, commercial and open-source datasets to source capacity, identify shippers, and combat fraud in the trucking industry.“We are excited ...
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a sweeping overhaul of the state’s legal system in two bills introduced Jan. 30 in the General Assembly, as Georgia’s trucking companies face mounting pressure from nuclear verdicts and rising insurance costs.The governor’s office cited a five-year increase of 25 ...
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Multimodal transportation giant Schneider National Inc. in November entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cowan Systems LLC and affiliated entities for a cash purchase price of about US$390 million, subject to certain adjustments.The sale includes separate agreements to purchase certain real estate assets relating ...
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Estes Express Lines and R+L Carriers affiliate Ramar Land Corp. said they will pay US$192.5 million for eight owned properties and four leased terminals from the administrators of Yellow Corp., the bankrupt less-than-truckload carrier.Estes will pay US$142.5 million for seven owned and four leased terminals ...
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U.S. trucking companies were T-boned by US$165 billion in nuclear verdicts, or jury awards of more than $10 million, in 2023, according to a report from Marathon Strategies.Overall, U.S. juries ordered companies in 47 different industries to pay a nuclear verdict last year, in a ...
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The American Trucking Associations welcomed the U.S. Senate’s unanimously passage of the Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act Nov. 21. It now awaits passage by the U.S. House.
ATA, which has lobbied heavily for the bipartisan bill, said the legislation would eliminate redundant fees and background ...
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U.S. trucking activity rose modestly in October, according to the American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, the third increase since July.“The slow, and choppy, climb off of the bottom continued in October,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. “Since hitting a ...
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