Congestion at other West Coast ports has caused an increasing number of ships to use the Port of Portland in hopes of being unloaded quicker and being able to return to Asia for more goods during the 2021 peak season.
Portland is the leading port on the U.S. West Coast for exports. It is also the largest mineral bulk port on the West Coast. Annually, over 17 million tons of cargo move through the port. Of that amount, approximately 11 million tons of cargo moves through port-owned and...
The port of Oakland, California was the first important port on the West Coast of the United States. While it is overshadowed today in terms of volume by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, it is the third key gateway on the West Coast. Moreover, it handles 99% of the containers that move through northern California.
Early history
The estuary that the Port of Oakland was constructed on and around was originally only 500 feet wide and had a depth of only 2 feet at low tide. Oakland was...
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Trucking and intermodal drayage company ContainerPort Group announced that end-to-end intermodal provider FSI Inc. and its independent contractors will transition to the CPG brand on Jan. 1.
The acquisition closed in October. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Charlotte, North Carolina-based FSI operates container terminals in the Carolinas, providing cross-docking, warehousing, yard operations, drayage, and maintenance and repair services. The company’s facilities connect to the rail lines of...
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Truck-only toll lanes are not popular within the trucking industry as a way to pay for highway infrastructure. In fact, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) has made battling truck-only tolls a key priority on its 2021 political agenda.
But a recently released study by researchers at California State University Long Beach breaks new ground on the subject from the point of view of owner-operators. Its conclusion: Owner-operators who dray containers to and from the ports of Los Angeles and...
Pick a poorly maintained container chassis or the wrong one from a pool, and you are in for a bad dray day.
American Shipper recently discussed this important topic for drayage truckers with Phil Wolfe, vice president of international sales for DCLI, the nation’s largest provider of intermodal chassis.
Many draymen retrieve their chassis from bustling pools located next to large container ports. However, no two chassis are alike — they vary by...
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CIE Manufacturing (CIEM) this week has started rolling out the first container chassis from its new manufacturing plant at Emporia, Virginia.
The South Gate, California-based company, formerly CIMC Intermodal Equipment, began setting up its Virginia chassis manufacturing facility in July. The production site encompasses 43 acres about 70 miles west of the Port of Virginia at Hampton Roads.
“Our plans for this entire manufacturing complex are quite extensive and surely will allow our brand to...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on Thursday released $220 million in federal funds for 18 coastal and inland ports aimed at speeding freight through the supply chain.
Rail and truck connections were highlighted at 11 of the 18 facilities receiving money. Eight of the grantees are located in “opportunity zones” created to improve economically distressed communities.
This latest round of Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) funding, made through the U.S. Maritime...
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Denny Slagle, who retired as executive vice president of Volvo Group and president of Mack Trucks in 2018, has joined electric vehicle startup Trova Commercial Vehicles as senior adviser.
TrovaCV was launched this summer to provide commercial vehicle manufacturers with customized engineering, design and manufacturing expertise while at the same time developing its own electric vehicle from the ground up.
TrovaCV founder and CEO Patrick Collignon,...
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