On Monday, April 27, 2015, port truck drivers serving the nation’s largest port complex began a strike of four major drayage firms serving the twin ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach, where a crippling slowdown in early 2015 sent shock waves through the U.S. economy. Primary picket lines are now up company yards in the greater Los Angeles area an in San Diego, and truckers and their supporters are picketing company trucks at marine terminals, rail yards, and customer warehouses as far away as the US/Mexico border.
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Several hundred truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began a strike against four fleets, including two controlled by XPO Logistics, but there were no reports of interrupted cargo flow on the docks at the nation’s two largest ports.
The current surface transportation bill, MAP-21, will expire on May 31. Congress must use this opportunity to craft new legislation that will, for the first time, make freight a high priority.
Truck tonnage rose 5% last month, providing an indication of continued economic expansion, American Trucking Associations reported.
New Jersey will need to invest more in highway and rail freight infrastructure to handle the increasing cargo volume at Port Elizabeth/Port Newark that is propelling the growth of the state’s transportation and logistics sector, said State Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester.
U.S. rail intermodal traffic rose 2.3% in the week ended April 11 compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.
The Surface Transportation Board approved on April 10 a joint proposal by Louisville & Indiana Railroad (L&I) and CSX Transportation to upgrade a key freight corridor between Indianapolis and Louisville, Ky.
Since the early 1990s, global trade agreements have divided the world up into larger and larger chunks of trading blocks where goods can flow virtually unimpeded across national borders that once protected their precious industries from outside competition with tariffs, duties and penalties. The Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico was signed in 1992 and the trend continues unabated.
Demand-driven logistics spans the world…in practice and in print. For a host of reasons, U.S. shippers and consignees are taking control of how they pull—and push—global product to market.
Even with a very slight decline, the non-manufacturing activity for the month of March was strong, according to data issued today by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) in its Non-Manufacturing Report on Business