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Canadian Shipper
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing criticism after he announced Friday that the country is teaming up with U.S. tech giant Amazon.com Inc. to distribute personal protective equipment like masks and gloves across the country.
Public Services and Procurement Canada says Amazon will provide the services at cost and without making a profit, while ensuring "vast quantities" of masks, gloves and other equipment purchased by the government are provided to frontline health-care workers and others in need as quickly as possible.
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Canaian Shipper
Clearly, there are some jobs governments do better than the private sector, such as healthcare, but should they be adding running the supply chain to their duties during the COVID-19 crisis?
Empty shelves, lineups outside stores and long queues when ordering food online has made some people nervous about whether supply chains will be able to keep up with demand as people follow government directives to remain at home until at least May.
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Progressive Railroading
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on U.S. freight-rail traffic is growing, with the number of carloads and intermodal containers and trailers transported during the week ending April 4 tumbling 15.9 percent to 429,095 units compared with volumes logged in the same week a year ago, according to the Association of American Railroads.
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Government of Canada
Utmost care is necessary to ensure the safe transportation of dangerous goods by rail and to protect both rail workers and those living nearby Canada's rail corridors.
Today, the Minister of Transport, the Honourable Marc Garneau, announced measures to improve rail safety in Canada and reduce train derailments through three different Ministerial Orders directed to railway companies.
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Hydraulex Global is your main source for new, remanufactured, aftermarket, and surplus hydraulic pumps, motors, valves, servo & proportional valves, cylinders, PTOs and replacement parts. We offer a variety of units for all your mobile and industrial hydraulic needs.
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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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Progressive Railroading
CN marked a record March for grain moved by rail, Canadian news outlets reported last week.
The railroad moved 2.62 million tonnes of grain last month, a 6 percent increase from March 2017, the previous record CN set for March.
The record comes as the Class I works to clear up a backlog built after a month of political blockades set up across the country in February.
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AAR
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending April 4, 2020.
For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 429,095 carloads and intermodal units, down 15.9 percent compared with the same week last year.
Total carloads for the week ending April 4 were 210,911 carloads, down 16.2 percent compared with the same week in 2019, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 218,184 containers and trailers, down 15.7 percent compared to 2019.
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Progressive Railroading
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) yesterday authorized CN subsidiary Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Co.'s (B&LE) acquisition and operation of the Massena rail lines from CSX.
CN announced in August 2019 it signed an agreement to acquire the 236-mile Massena lines, which operate between Valleyfield, Quebec, and Woodard, New York. The B&LE will operate the line.
More than 45 percent of current carload traffic on the lines is overhead traffic exchanged between CN and CSX.
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Canadian Shipper
Transport Minister Marc Garneau is entrenching lower speed limits for trains hauling large amounts of crude oil or liquefied gas through urban areas, but relaxing the definition of "higher risk" trains that are subject to the stricter rules.
The directive Friday follows a pair of derailments in a Saskatchewan municipality less than two months apart, the latest one on Feb. 6 spilling 1.6 million litres of crude oil and sparking a massive fire.
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TruckNews.com
From a "disastrous" situation in the United Kingdom to "a complete mess" in India, truckers around the world are bracing for financial ruin amid the fight against COVID-19, according to industry leaders.
In interviews with Today's Trucking, they spoke of a grim situation that transcends borders.
"It is a massive challenge. We have half of the U.K. fleet parked up and inactive," said Rod McKenzie, managing director of policy and public affairs at the Road Haulage Association (RHA), which represents British fleets.
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Freight Waves
The number of truck drivers crossing from the U.S. to Canada plunged last week in a sign of how COVID-19 continues to hit the freight markets in both countries.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) reported that nearly 10% fewer truckers entered Canada from the United States from March 30-April 5 compared to the previous week. The 79,616 truck driver crossings represent a nearly 29% drop from a year earlier.
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TruckNews.com
Petko Ganachev didn't expect to be on the front lines in a battle against a worldwide pandemic, and certainly never imagined he’d be pulling double duty.
A truck driver in B.C. for 10 years, Ganachev is now employing the full spectrum of his talents, having created a 3D printing group that is answering the call and making face shields and mask straps to help ease shortages across the country in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Frieght Waves
Speculation that the demand destruction from the coronavirus will be long-lasting and result in a smaller airline industry after the pandemic is starting to become a reality.
On Tuesday, Deutsche Lufthansa AG announced a significant restructuring that includes a permanent reduction in capacity and the consolidation of several flight operations within the airline group. The company said the board of directors made the decisions because it expects global travel restrictions won't be completely lifted for months and that it will take years until worldwide demand for air travel returns to levels before the coronavirus crisis.
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Air Cargo Week
Paris-based ECS Group pays tribute to the remarkable work of the teams at Global Services Handling (GSH), a French air cargo handling company based at Roissy Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport in France. Despite the difficulties GSH is facing in this period of unprecedented crisis, ECS Group is highlighting the essential nature of handling and handling teams, without whom airfreight forwarding would quite simply be impossible.
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MarineLink
The coronavirus outbreak has affected all aspects of the shipping industry, lowering, if not wiping out, demand growth prospects for the year across all segments. The outbreak has also affected fleet development, says shipping association BIMCO.
Contracting activity has fallen, demolition activity, which had been high, is now being limited by restrictions around the world and deliveries of new vessels are delayed.
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Freight Waves
The liner shipping industry, which operates container ships and vehicle carriers, has continued to move the cargo on which the world relies despite the pandemic.
As governments, companies, individuals and institutions respond to the COVID-19 crisis, the first focus is and must be on protecting health and human life. Even as the crisis upends daily life, people continue to have basic needs for food, medicine and other supplies. And even as we all take steps to address the immediate situation, countries across the globe are preparing for recovery.
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MarineLink
Work is underway to retrieve dozens of containers lost from a containership off the coast of Australia, with the first boxes raised to the surface.
The first container was recovered from the seafloor using a hydraulic crane and rigging, remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV) and a specially manufactured steel basket, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. Another two boxes were lifted in the days following.
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