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Government of Canada
The Government of Canada welcomes innovation that will help to create Canada's transportation system of tomorrow. That is why Transport Canada's program to Advance Connectivity and Automation in the Transportation System (ACATS) is helping Canadian jurisdictions prepare for connected and automated vehicles.
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Transport Topics
The Great Plains and Midwest, struggling with flooding that inundated roads and farms and pushed rivers to record heights, is set to get more rain ahead, with light showers forecast over the next few days and a heavier downpour later.
At least 17 high-water records have been set across Nebraska, where 660 people are in evacuation shelters and the National Guard and State Patrol have had to rescue more than 175 people, the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.
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Progressive Railroading
Federal Railroad Administrator Ronald Batory on Tuesday declared an emergency event for railroad operations because of extreme flooding throughout the Midwest.
The National Weather Service has documented historic flooding throughout the region, Batory said in an emergency event announcement. Rivers rose to unprecedented levels in more than 40 locations due to melting snow and ice, causing power outages, breached dams and broken levees.
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Securiguard maintains a highly trained and fully certified K9-unit featuring dogs skilled in narcotic/explosive detection. Whether our clients are based on land, at sea or in the air, our services ensure added safety and peace of mind. Visit us at the Cargo Logistics Expo
in Vancouver, BC at booth #425 on Feb 5-7!
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Valuepart Worldwide
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At Valuepart, we know the importance of providing you with fast availability of our quality undercarriage and repair parts inventory. This is why we maintain one of the largest North American networks of Depots and Warehouse facilities in the industry.
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RailwayAge
CN President and CEO Jean-Jacques "JJ" Ruest accepted Railway Age's 56th Railroader of the Year Award at the Union League Club of Chicago on March 12.
"I am greatly honored and humbled to accept this award on behalf of all of us, the CN railroaders," said Ruest in his acceptance remarks. "I want to thank all of our people at CN for their constant support in these exciting and challenging times. The way we make things happen as a team is by working as one. None of what we do would be possible without every single one of the 25,000 railroaders we have at CN."
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Progressive Railroading
Any notable increase in crude oil pipeline or rail capacity in Canada would need to come from major infrastructure projects since pipelines are at full capacity and rail infrastructure is operating at or near capacity, according to a National Energy Board (NEB) report.
Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi asked the NEB to assess available capacity on oil pipelines, examine ways to optimize oil pipeline capacity out of western Canada and explore short-term steps to further maximize rail capacity.
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Railfreight.com
Drewry is a leading independent provider of research and consulting services to the maritime and shipping industry. In its February issue, it included the Eurasian Rail Alliance Index (ERAI), a tool showing the indicative value of Eurasian railway transit. This tool was produced by Eurasian Rail Alliance (UTLC ERA) together with consulting company INFRAONE. "This marks the first time that the role of Eurasian rail transit has been recognized and highlighted on an international level," UTLC ERA commented.
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Progressive Railroading
For the week ending March 16, 2019, U.S. railroads logged 501,001 carloads and intermodal units, down 6.8 percent compared with total volume from the same week last year, according to Association of American Railroads data.
Carloads dropped 8.8 percent to 240,317 units while intermodal volume declined 4.8 percent to 260,684 containers and trailers.
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Canadian Shipper
The Lion Electric Co. unveiled its first all-electric Class 8 urban truck — the Lion8 — which will be commercialized this fall, with the first vehicle to be delivered to Société des Alcools du Québec (SAQ).
The Lion8 is designed, created, and manufactured to be electric and has a range of up to 400 kilometers on a single charge. The elimination of noise pollution, optimization of visibility, and turning radius make the Lion8’s driving experience safe, according to the company.
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Canadian Shipper
Ride-hailing giant Uber is expanding its freight business into Europe.
The service connects trucking companies with shippers who have loads to haul.
Uber said Wednesday it would launch freight operations in the Netherlands and would later expand into other parts of Europe.
Lior Ron, head of Uber Freight, says there’s a severe shortage of truck drivers in Europe.
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Canadian Shipper
Mandatory training for commercial truck drivers in Saskatchewan is to begin.
The change was announced in December, eight months after a deadly crash between a semi and a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team.
Sixteen people died and 13 were injured when an inexperienced truck driver from Calgary blew through a stop sign in rural Saskatchewan and into the path of the bus.
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Canadian Shipper
Ontario Premier Doug Ford focused on the trucking industry as he continued to sound the alarm about a federally imposed carbon tax, which takes hold on April 1.
Diesel prices will increase by 5.37 cents per liter this year and 13.41 cents by 2022. Combined with HST, this will add more than $350 million to the price of the province's heavy-duty transportation in the coming year. By 2022, the figure could be as high as $870 million.
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Canadian Shipper
At the American Trucking Associations' Technology & Maintenance Council Annual 2019 Meeting, the industry's largest fleet-focused technical event, BlackBerry Limited launched BlackBerry Radar H2, a new intelligent, data-driven asset monitoring device that can help automate operations, improve utilization of trailers, containers, chassis and other remote assets, as well as ensure assets are safe and secure.
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Canadian Shipper
Winnipeg Richardson International Airport introduced "Otto," the first autonomous airport snowplow in North America. The plow is the result of a partnership with Manitoba companies Northstar Robotics Inc. and Airport Technologies Inc.
"Otto" is a specially designed ATI Snow Mauler configured to operate autonomously using Northstar Robotics technology. The plow performs snow clearing tasks by following predetermined routes and controlling the plow blade at specific locations.
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Canadian Shipper
Cargo Community Network (CCN) partnered with Microsoft to introduce the world’s first blockchain-based air cargo billing, costing and reconciliation system. Launched at the 13th International Air Transport Association World Cargo Symposium in Singapore, the system is set to transform air cargo billing processes, minimize billing discrepancies, accelerate billing reconciliation, and provide near real-time revenue recognition to enhance efficiency for airlines, cargo agents and freight forwarders involved in the entire supply chain.
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The Loadstar
Analysts predict that the impact of IMO 2020 will mean slower ships and more transhipment.
This would be a further blow to shippers who also face additional costs to compensate carriers for using cleaner fuel from 1 January.
Shippers may dislike surcharges, but they universally hate transhipment, as it introduces another level of risk to the supply chain.
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Canadian Shipper
The Chamber of Marine Commerce (CMC) said it is pleased with the Federal Budget promise to introduce legislation to modernize Canada's pilotage service for commercial ships — a system that has not been overhauled in 45 years.
"This is an historic step forward to make the significant changes needed to the Pilotage Act and its regulatory framework that will create a pilotage system that not only ensures safe navigation but improves the efficiency and competitiveness of Canada's transportation system for years to come," said Bruce Burrows, President of the Chamber of Marine Commerce.
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AJOT
Japan's exports fell for a third straight month in February, as a global economic slowdown and waning technology cycle take a toll.
Shipments abroad fell 1.2 percent by value from a year earlier, according to the finance ministry. Economists had forecast a 0.6 percent drop, following an 8.4 percent slide in January, the biggest slump since 2016. Autos were the biggest drag, while semi-conductor related goods also weighed heavily.
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Canadian Shipper
Shippers rightfully want more transparency regarding how the new fuel surcharge mechanisms will work, but they should be mindful of the potential risks to future service options, competition and rates if they don't concede anything to carriers, according to Drewry Shipping Consultants.
Drewry says there is a general acceptance among shippers that they will have to pay more towards the fuel cost burden, although there are still a number of sticking points regarding the mechanics of how it should be done.
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