Officials at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, said the facility is operating at about 80% as factories in China slowly come back online, and the U.S. economy struggles amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Dr. Birx predicts up to 200,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths ‘if we do things almost perfectly’
The White House coronavirus response coordinator said Monday that she is “very worried about every city in the United States” and projects 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths as a best case scenario.
COVID-19 confirmed on Gjertrud Maersk
Crew members evacuated from container ship, tested for coronavirus and hospitalized in China.
Port of Los Angeles receives Mercy
Second Navy ship expected to arrive in New York on Monday to provide relief to hospitals overburdened with coronavirus patients
California Issues ‘Stay At Home’ Order As Coronavirus Infections Rise
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered California’s 40 million residents to stay at home indefinitely in the widest-ranging directive so far of any state as it grapples with a growing novel coronavirus epidemic that has killed 150 people nationwide.
New, flexible HOS rules due in June
Some 18 months after the ELD mandate changed the trucking industry, drivers and fleet managers might get a regulatory reprieve.
U.S. Regulators See Container Trade Overcapacity Posing No Dangers
Abundant vessel space and weak transportation rates to and from the United States should not pose a bankruptcy danger to international container ship fleets over the next few years, according to U.S. regulators.
The US-China trade war’s effects on truckload supply and demand in major west coast and east coast port markets
The US-China trade war has had a massive impact on supply and demand within the US truckload market. Companies scrambling to beat the deadline of the proposed tariff increases on Chinese-made goods pushed major ocean container volumes into the ports, and left US warehouses packed full of imported goods that were not meant to ship […]
Retailers, Logistics Firms Expand Final-Mile Delivery to Meet Rising E-Commerce Expectations
Retailers and transportation providers are embracing a blend of final-mile delivery strategies to keep pace with rapidly shifting online shopping habits.
AAR Reports Weekly Rail Traffic for the Week Ending March 23, 2019
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending March 23, 2019. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 503,017 carloads and intermodal units, down 4.5 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending March 23 were 236,817 carloads, down 10.9 […]