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FMC identifies San Pedro Bay container challenges during COVID-19

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) on Wednesday identified four key areas where the container shipping industry in the San Pedro Bay port complex of Southern California can overcome current supply chain disruptions.

In late March, the FMC tasked Commissioner Rebecca Dye to lead a handful of industry representative-based “innovation teams,” with the goal of developing regional guidance to improve the transport and logistics flow of container traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Envase Technologies multiplies intermodal TMS by three

Newly formed Envase Technologies will take the intermodal container and drayage expertise of three long-time transportation management systems (TMS) and integrate them into one.

“We are building the next generation intermodal drayage TMS platform that will leverage the ‘best in class’ from each of these solutions,” Larry Cuddy, Envase’s newly appointed head, told FreightWaves.

The three TMS platforms that now make up Envase include Profit Tools, Compcare Services and GTG Technology Group, which...

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FMC’s Dye keeps eye on COVID-19-challenged US supply chains

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) official in charge of monitoring the current U.S. supply chain impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic said she has brought together myriad industry stakeholders to find immediate remedies to these problems and prepare for the reopening of the economy.

“We need to be ready in our seaports for the increased cargo that we know is coming soon,” FMC Commissioner Rebecca Dye told attendees of the virtual annual Agriculture Transportation Coalition...

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Drayage truckers ramp up chassis-rate dispute with ocean carriers

U.S. trucking companies claiming that foreign ocean carriers have been manipulating the intermodal chassis-leasing market at the truck carriers’ expense are ready to take their dispute to federal regulators.

In a May 4 letter to the Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association (OCEMA), whose members represent 80% of the U.S. container market, the Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference (IMCC) warned that they will be filing a formal complaint with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) unless...

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