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Financial Post
Canada's jobs market may be stalling only two months into its rebound.
A Bloomberg News poll taken at the end of June by Nanos Research found that only 30 percent of Canadians who either lost their job or were working reduced hours because of the pandemic were reemployed or working more.
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AAR
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending July 11, 2020.
For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 449,092 carloads and intermodal units, down 14.9 percent compared with the same week last year.
Total carloads for the week ending July 11 were 201,703 carloads, down 22.7 percent compared with the same week in 2019, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 247,389 containers and trailers, down 7.4 percent compared to 2019.
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Progressive Railroading
Alaska-Alberta Railway Corp. (A2A Rail) has commissioned HDR Inc. to begin preparing a detailed land survey along the Alberta segment of the railway's proposed route.
HDR will work with local contractors and subcontractors, including Quantum Spatial, a geospatial analytics company, and Lawson, a certified Indigenous owned and controlled surveying firm, A2A Rail officials said in a press release.
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Progressive Railroading
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division-IBT (BMWED) President Freddie Simpson is asking all Class I and Conrail chief executive officers to immediately institute testing and tracing of the coronavirus among all their employees.
The measures should include daily temperature testing and the application of other stringent safeguards, union officials said in a press release.
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Transport DIVE
Employment numbers indicate industry confidence in the direction the economy is headed. When fleets expect an uptick in business, they'll recruit more workers. If that doesn't happen, job numbers drop.
In the U.S., transportation and warehousing jobs declined by 588,000 in April and May combined. Canada's job market experienced similar declines. THRC's report estimated unemployment would reach 14.4% in Q2 in Canada, which was the U.S. rate in April.
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Canadian Trucking Alliance
With less than a year to go for the implementation of the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate, federal Transportation Minister Marc Garneau is once again displaying leadership on road safety by reminding the trucking industry and the Canadian public the much needed regulation is well on its way to being delivered.
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American Shipper
Airfreight rates continued to fall in July as virus-related shipments gave way to a more normal mix of commodities and beefed-up passenger schedules presented greater transport opportunities for shippers.
But there are signs the trend may not last. The ebb and flow of coronavirus containment and spread in different regions of the world presents a cautionary note against expectations the airline industry recovery will continue in a straight line without interruption, and that cargo capacity won't be sidelined in the process.
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American Shipper
Delta Air Lines posted a $3.9 billion pretax loss for the second quarter, ending June 30, on a more than $11 billion drop in revenue from last year.
Ed Bastian, the Atlanta-based carrier's CEO, said the dramatic loss "illustrates the truly staggering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business."
The airline had anticipated a continued deterioration in revenue since earlier this year when it grounded more than 90% of its passenger flights due to government travel restrictions to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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American Shipper
It looks like a slow-motion game of chicken between ships.
But video shows neither blinked, and the Florence Spirit and the MV Alanis collided in the Welland Canal in Ontario, Canada.
Navigational conditions were reported to be normal when the vessels collided at 3:55 p.m. Saturday south of Port Robinson, according to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. (SLSMC).
In audio accompanying the videos provided to FreightWaves by witnesses Jeremy Barton and Alex Stewart, an alarm is followed by the sounds of metal meeting metal.
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The Loadstar
Shipping lines are using rollovers to bump up freight rates, "forcing" the vast majority of shippers to pay no-roll premiums.
According to Cas Pouderoyen, head of ocean freight at Agility, around 80% of shippers feel they have to pay premiums of $400 to $500 per container on the deepsea trades.
"Otherwise, odds are, you're going to be rolled," he said.
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gCaptain
More than a dozen countries with crucial global shipping hubs agreed to ease port and border restrictions for seafarers to help the more than 200,000 workers still stranded on vessels return home.
Nations including the U.S., Singapore, Greece and the United Arab Emirates said they would ease coronavirus-related restrictions for seafarers and boost commercial flights to help facilitate crew swaps.
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Drewry
Over the past few months, Drewry Supply Chain Advisors has organized and moderated weekly discussions with its shipper customers. As well as informing them about how the COVID-19 health crisis has impacted shipping schedules, cancelled sailings and port operations, sessions have helped encourage the exchange of views on how to best respond to the situation and mitigate risks from a logistics perspective.
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The Load Star
Over 120 idled containerships have been reactivated since 22 June, according to Alphaliner, as green shoots of a peak season slowly emerge.
As at 6 July, the consultant recorded an inactive fleet of 375 vessels with a capacity of 1.85m teu, significantly down from the 453 ships for 2.32m teu reported to be in hot and cold lay-up just two weeks earlier.
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