WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation is launching the first step in a long-awaited National Multimodal Freight Network (NMFN), a project that will be used to prioritize federal money for freight infrastructure around the country.
A request for information scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Friday will give the public 60 days to submit comments and data on the best way to identify freight facilities and corridors that will be used to create an NMFN map.
When securing drivers for shipments that require entry into a maritime facility, transportation and logistics workers are often introduced to the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) program. According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the program is administered to assess security threats within American seaports.
In 2001, the TWIC program was created after the passage of the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA). The MTSA was a response to the 9/11...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/askwaves-what-is-a-twic-card
Shipping Australia welcomes the news that industrial relations woes may be over (well, for now, at least) at one of our major container terminals.
DPW Australia earlier this week informed the industry that it had finalised its Enterprise Bargaining Agreement, that its terminals are operating normally and without berthing delays.
That is great news,...
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U.S. agriculture and forest product exporters are counting the ways and dollars it costs them when ocean carriers without warning change the dates for container arrivals at marine terminals.
The Washington-based Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) and supply chain technology firm TradeLanes recently reached out to hundreds of American shippers to survey the operational and financial impacts of earliest return date (ERD) fluctuations on their businesses.
The AgTC and TradeLanes have...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/container-return-date-upheaval-by-the-numbers
North Dakota specialty soybean exporter Robert Sinner has lost his patience with ocean carriers that without sufficient notice change the earliest delivery return dates for containers arriving at the nation’s seaports and he wants something done about it.
Sinner, whose company SB&B Foods has shipped container loads of soybeans to high-end food processors in Asia for the past two decades, said the problem has gone from bad to worse during the past five years.
“It drives us crazy,” he told American...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/american-exporters-want-end-to-erratic-container-return-dates
Mexico’s president said he wants to terminate a 100-year concession awarded to a private company to operate the Port of Veracruz, one of the country’s largest seaports.
Speaking at his daily morning news conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador declined to name the port operator but said it was “excessive” that a private company could secure such a long contract to run the port.
“We are cleaning up corruption. I just found out that the port of Veracruz was concessioned to a company,...
Several key decisions were announced yesterday (Sunday 15 March). Decisions were announced in respect of international air passengers (including relief crews flying in for a crew-change), ships’ crews arriving in Australia by sea, and a ban on cruise ships berthing in Australia. Details follow below.
Meanwhile, readers should note that the situation is evolving quickly...
https://shippingaustralia.com.au/update-commercial-shipping-in-australia-and-the-coronavirus/
