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Eric Fetchko Wins 2025 Eddie Smith Manufacturer of the Year Award from Center for Sportfishing Policy

Dometic Marine Segment President Eric Fetchko was honored with the 2025 Eddie Smith Manufacturer of the Year Award during the American Boating Congress Industry Lunch, held recently in Washington, D.C. and hosted by the National Marine Manufacturer’s Association. 

This prestigious award is presented annually by the Center for Sportfishing Policy (CSP), America’s leading advocate for saltwater recreational anglers.  The award was presented to Fetchko by CSP President Jeff Angers before members of...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/22/eric-fetchko-wins-2025-eddie-smith-manufacturer-of-the-year-award-from-center-for-sportfishing-policy/

Taxi Monaco app revolutionises ride booking in the Principality

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Shock exits and rising stars: Monte-Carlo Masters serves drama in early rounds The 2025 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters has delivered compelling narratives and notable upsets as it progresses through the early rounds…

Taxi Monaco app revolutionises ride booking in the Principality In a significant step towards modernising public transport services, the Principality of Monaco has launched its...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/04/10/taxi-monaco-app-revolutionises-ride-booking-in-the-principality/

Reed Smith strengthens Transportation Industry Group with finance partner in Washington D.C.

Chris Buchanan

Global law firm Reed Smith today announced the appointment of partner Chris Buchanan in its Washington D.C. office. Buchanan joins the firm’s global Transportation Industry Group from King & Spalding where he was a partner in the finance practice.

Bringing a wealth of knowledge of the aviation industry, Buchanan’s experience includes advising clients on synthetic leases, aircraft finance, U.S. citizenship regulations for aircraft ownership, and export finance facilities. 

Buchanan...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/10/reed-smith-strengthens-transportation-industry-group-with-finance-partner-in-washington-d-c/

Amazon, facing suit over use of driver tips, launches driver tipping feature

Amazon this week revealed a new way for customers to thank their delivery drivers — but those drivers could be due for an apology too.

On Wednesday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rolled out a feature that will give delivery drivers an additional $5 when a customer tells his or her Alexa device, “Alexa, thank my driver.”

Amazon — not the customer — will make the payment to the driver who delivered that customer’s most recent package. The feature will apply to the first million thank-you’s, and the five...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-facing-suit-over-use-of-driver-tips-launches-driver-tipping-feature

What’s going on in Washington?

The days in Washington, DC, seem to fly by as we barrel towards the Sept. 30 expiration deadline of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Transaction has slowed to a near standstill surrounding the uncertainty of the votes of moderate Senators from purple states who are stuck between a rock and hard place politically.

House Democrats are approaching the upcoming infrastructure bill and the reconciliation legislation in a “two-tracked” approach. Both sides of the aisle have...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/whats-going-on-in-washington

Viewpoint: Q&A on infrastructure legislation in Washington

The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. Jake Medwell, founding partner at 8VC, and Loren A. Smith Jr., president of Skyline Policy Risk Group, take a look at potential impacts on trucking. This will be a regular quarterly Q&A exclusively on FreightWaves.

By Jake Medwell and Loren Smith

Q: President Biden and the Congress are still hammering away on a big infrastructure and tax plan. What’s the latest?

A:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/viewpoint-qa-on-infrastructure-legislation-in-washington

CSX, Amtrak and Virginia formalize public-private partnership

A composite image featuring two photographs. Both are of a train crossing a rusted bridge.

The commonwealth of Virginia, Amtrak, commuter rail Virginia Railway Express (VRE) and CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) have formally dedicated themselves to take part in a $3.7 billion effort to divide passenger and freight rail traffic in Virginia and improve traffic flows between the Northeast and Southeast corridors.

The public-private partnership, dubbed “Transforming Rail in Virginia,” seeks to alleviate the choke point that passenger and freight rail trains encounter when passing from Washington into...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/csx-amtrak-and-virginia-formalize-public-private-partnership

Commentary: Freight rates – the games continue

May Day trucker protest

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. 

We are in uncharted waters as a world, a country, and a freight economy. Networks have been disrupted, plants shuttered, trucks parked, and drivers unemployed. Carriers and brokers are doing what they can to get through the worst of the disruption while planning for the restart of the economy as North America emerges from the shutdown. Shippers are using the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-freight-rates-the-games-continue

AIWA, BoatUS made it to Capitol Hill to ask for dredging funds

Prior to last week’s closure of the U.S. Capitol, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA) and Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) joined a broad coalition of groups including coastal shipping operators, dredging contractors, local governments and recreational boating groups to advocate on behalf of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, a U.S. DOT-designated Marine Highway that runs from Norfolk, Va. to Miami.

The coalition went to Capitol Hill pushing to establish...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/aiwa-boatus-made-it-to-capitol-hill-to-ask-for-dredging-funds/

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