The rail industry needs to repair track defects, upgrade tank-car design and increase training of emergency responders in order to improve safe transportation of crude oil and ethanol, says a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration later this month will host two question-and-answer webinars about federal hours-of-service regulations. The hour-long sessions will allow participants to submit HOS-related questions and have them answered by FMCSA subject matter experts Tom Yager and Peter Chandler. Yager is chief if the Driver and Carrier Operations Division within FMCSA, and […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently handed out $70 million in grants aimed at driver training and safety programs. The grants are meant to help states and commercial vehicle training schools: • improve states’ safety efforts • help states comply with FMCSA CDL regulations • help train military veterans for commercial driving jobs The […]
U.S.-NAFTA freight totaled $89.2 billion in July, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported today. That’s 6.5 percent more than in July 2016, and makes the ninth consecutive month in which the year-over-year value in NAFTA freight had a year-over-year monthly increase. Trucks continued to be the most highly utilized transport mode, carrying 63.2 percent of […]
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending October 7, 2017. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 554,826 carloads and intermodal units, up 6.3 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending October 7 were 269,336 carloads, up 2 […]
As the economy shows signs of improvement, so too do the rail and intermodal transportation markets. However, it bears repeating that even in the leaner economic times of recent years, these markets did a better than average job of persevering while it appeared that the other major modes were limping along.
The air cargo landscape is undergoing change with more players seeking to control assets and enter the market, but there will always be a role for the middleman, according to one speaker at the Caspian Air Cargo Summit. Speaking at the two-day conference in Baku, PAS Aviation Logistics managing director Peter Scholten explained that there […]
As any world traveler knows, situations can get confusing when the parties involved don’t share a common language. The same holds true in air cargo when it comes to digitizing across platforms, and industry organizations are taking steps to overcome the cargo language barrier.
Strong consumer demand produced record import volume in August and near-record imports are projected for October, which will close out a busy peak-shipping season, according to the National Retail Federation. However, industry analysts emphasize that beneficial cargo owners can anticipate a soft rate environment during the post-holiday shipping slump in November to December, and into […]
Just over a month after Amazon.com Inc. ate Whole Foods, the shakeout in the American grocery aisle keeps getting uglier. The latest sign of trouble: Private-equity giant Apollo Global Management recently tossed a $50 million lifeline to Fresh Market, the struggling high-end chain it took private only 17 months ago. It will only get worse […]
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