The federal airlift of emergency medical supplies continued Thursday with at least two all-cargo planes making deliveries. An all-cargo plane full of disposable medical gloves touched down in the morning at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, said Todd Crabtree, the Chicago-area general manager at STG Logistics. Atlas Air operated the flight.
Activity at ports tracked by the Global Port Tracker fell in February to the lowest level in five years. Imports accounted for 1.51 million 20-foot-equivalent unit containers in February, the latest data available. That was down 6.8% from the same time last year, and sequentially down 17% from January of this year.
February intermodal volumes continued an ongoing run of declines, which were accentuated by the ongoing coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic, according to data provided to LM by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). Total shipments for the month—at 1,330,803—were off 5.4% annually. Domestic containers—at 608,833—were up 5.8% decline, while trailers—at 83,155—slumped 22.6%. All domestic equipment—at 691,988—was off 1/3%. […]
“The impact of the novel coronavirus on railroads is growing,” said AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray. “Since 1988, when our data began, total U.S. rail carloads were lower than they were last week only during a few Christmas and New Year’s weeks, when rail operations are seasonally low.”
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Fourteen Congressional lawmakers are pressing the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to consider the health and safety recommendations given by the rail unions as both agencies craft guidance related to the novel coronavirus.
The number of truck drivers crossing from the U.S. to Canada plunged last week in a sign of how COVID-19 continues to hit the freight markets in both countries.
The White House’s trade negotiating office assured that it will not impose import tariffs on certain Chinese medical products during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Container lines have now cancelled 212 sailings over the next three months in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence. The tally has more than quadrupled from 45 “blank” (cancelled) sailings just one week ago.
As the country enters what Trump administration and several governors are calling both a tragic week of loss and a possible apex of deaths and new cases in some parts of the nation, reports are mounting of growing tension and turmoil down on the front lines of the supply chain.
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