Following last week’s executive order on restoring America’s maritime dominance, the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced a landmark partnership between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) New York…
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TQL enfrenta una demanda federal sobre la disputa de transparencia del corredor
Por Matthew Leffler Las opiniones expresadas aquí son únicamente las del autor y no representan necesariamente las opiniones de las ondas de carga o sus afiliados. Logística de calidad total (TQL), el segundo agente de carga más grande del país, está bajo fuego en una nueva demanda federal...
TQL faces federal lawsuit over broker transparency dispute
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Total Quality Logistics (TQL), the nation’s second-largest freight broker, is under fire in a new federal lawsuit filed on Feb. 25 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Pink Cheetah Express LLC, a small Kissimmee, Florida-based motor carrier, alleges that TQL has flouted a 2023 Department of Transportation order mandating...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tql-faces-federal-lawsuit-over-broker-transparency-dispute
MARAD Faces Critical Workforce Crisis as Maritime Industry Demands Grow
The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) is grappling with severe staffing challenges despite a significant budget increase, potentially impacting America’s maritime industrial base revitalization efforts. According to a new Government Accountability…
https://gcaptain.com/marad-faces-critical-workforce-crisis-as-maritime-industry-demands-grow/
Sean Duffy Confirmed as Trump’s Transportation Secretary
The U.S. Senate has confirmed former Congressman Sean Duffy as Secretary of Transportation in a 77-22 vote. Duffy, who previously represented Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district and served on the Financial…
https://gcaptain.com/sean-duffy-confirmed-as-trumps-transportation-secretary/
Judge blocks Trump funding freeze that could hit rail, maritime
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked an order by President Donald Trump seeking to freeze federal funding pending a review by his administration.
The order from U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan in the District of Columbia came shortly before the freeze was scheduled to go into effect at 5 p.m. It is in effect until Monday afternoon.
Supply chain executives were waiting to see how billions of dollars from the U.S. Department of Transportation will be affected by the order pausing...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rail-maritime-caught-in-trumps-order-freezing-federal-spending
Duffy, nominado por Trump para el DOT, promete apoyar la Ley Jones
Excongresista Sean Duffy, presidente electo Donald TrumpEl candidato de Estados Unidos para Secretario de Transporte de los Estados Unidos, expresó su apoyo inequívoco a la Ley Jones y asumió importantes compromisos en materia de infraestructura de transporte durante su audiencia de confirmación en...
https://fullavantenews.com/duffy-nominado-por-trump-para-el-dot-promete-apoyar-la-ley-jones/?lang=es
Trump’s DOT Nominee Duffy Pledges Support for Jones Act
Former Congressman Sean Duffy, President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Transportation, expressed unequivocal support for the Jones Act and made significant commitments on transportation infrastructure during his Senate…
https://gcaptain.com/trumps-dot-nominee-duffy-pledges-support-for-jones-act/
At TRB: How high-tech mapping can grow intermodal, and a data reality check
WASHINGTON — Here’s what supply chain stakeholders know for certain about intermodal transportation: It involves freight moving between air, land and sea. Beyond that, well, there are more questions than answers.
The 104th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board provided a fertile setting for more than 13,000 educators, regulators and private businesses to consider diversified research into how to get from here to there, and the elusive goal of making it all more efficient.
At a...
Top 10 freight market rulemakings scheduled for 2025
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, the Biden administration’s Office of Management and Budget released the Fall 2024 edition of the biennial Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The agenda updates the status of active and longer-term rulemakings, including the latest estimated target date for the next step in the rulemaking process.
U.S. freight markets are indirectly affected by regulations crafted by almost any agency, but several, including the modal agencies at the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/top-10-freight-market-rulemakings-scheduled-for-2025