US House backs 'September agreement' to prevent crippling rail strike

President Biden’s call to US Congress to introduce legislation to forestall a crippling rail stoppage has proved successful. The US House of Representatives yesterday agreed to impose terms to end the ...

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News / ILA VP Daggett rebuts claims US ports are 'inefficient', but hits out at low investment

The window for front-loading cargo before a US port strike – or tariffs – is ...

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News / US retailers look to consumers to save an industrial sector in the doldrums

US consumers are expected to step into the breach again to generate higher volumes of ...

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News / US retail surge signals a minor seasonal windfall for rail carriers

Stronger than anticipated holiday sales have boosted North American imports, but for the surface transport ...

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News / Clearer road or more bumps ahead for US trucking: depends who you ask

Depending on which guru you’re talking to, this is either the time to nail-down US ...

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News / New call for White House intervention as USWC port disruption continues

Disruption has continued at the US west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, ...

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News / Work resumes at LA/LB ports, but contract settlement stays out of reach

Container terminals at the port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach reopened on Friday ...

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News / Mixed views on cargo shift from US west coast ports to the east

US shippers and forwarders are offering conflicting pictures of the migration of freight from west ...

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News / Shippers jockey for position with supply chain visibility critical in a declining market

Shippers are finding ways to differentiate themselves in market conditions that are becoming increasingly challenging, ...

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News / President Biden signs OSRA 2022 into law

President Joe Biden signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) 2022 into law yesterday to ...

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News / Long Beach's shared data platform wins support from competing West Coast ports

The newly launched data platform project of the port of Long Beach is getting traction ...

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News / Truckers, dockers and railways line up in three-way battle over US vaccine rule

The US surface transport sector is fighting Washington in the courts, while Class I railways ...

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News / Senate poised to approve upgrades to 'decaying' US transport infrastructure

Crumbling US infrastructure moved closer to a major overhaul at the weekend after the Senate ...

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News Podcast | May 2021 | Transpacific chaos: what happens in the peak season?

In the inaugural episode of The Loadstar Podcast, Mike King is joined by The Loadstar‘s ...

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