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Canadian Sailings
A furious mid-summer protest by transport companies and shippers has won them a one-year exemption from several Canada Labour Code hours of work changes that could have created chaos in the federally-regulated air, marine, rail, and interprovincial trucking industries. They were scheduled to come into effect recently.
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Financial Post
With impeachment in the air, an election campaign heating up and a highly regarded gauge of the American economy showing its worst reading in a decade, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce made an urgent plea to policymakers Tuesday to ratify the revamped North American Free Trade Agreement.
"We believe we're in this critical moment," Chamber vice-president Neil Bradley said on a call with journalists.
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Canadian Shipper
BlackBerry Limited and Matson Logistics, a subsidiary of Matson, Inc. announced that the company has deployed BlackBerry Radar-M across its entire fleet of its domestic intermodal containers.
The BlackBerry Radar asset monitoring solution will provide Matson Logistics with near real-time information such as location, motion, mileage, temperature, humidity, door open/close status, and utilized cube space, all on an intuitive on-line dashboard.
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CBC News
Statistics Canada says manufacturing sales fell 1.3 per cent to $57.2 billion in July as sales in the primary metal and motor vehicle industries moved lower.
The agency says sales were down in 11 industries in July, representing 66.8 per cent of total manufacturing sales.
Economists had expected a decline of 0.2 per cent, according to financial markets data firm Refinitiv.
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Financial Post
Canada's economy was unexpectedly unchanged in July, following four months of growth, as the country's mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction sectors contracted, Statistics Canada data showed.
Analysts in a Reuters poll had predicted an increase of 0.1 per cent in July following a 0.2 per cent increase in June. Overall, 12 of the 20 industrial sectors monitored expanded on the month, while eight declined, the national statistics agency said.
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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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World Trade Organization
Escalating trade tensions and a slowing global economy have led WTO economists to sharply downgrade their forecasts for trade growth in 2019 and 2020. World merchandise trade volumes are now expected to rise by only 1.2 percent in 2019, substantially slower than the 2.6 percent growth forecast in April. The projected increase in 2020 is now 2.7 percent, down from 3.0 percent previously.
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AJOT
House Democrats have made a counteroffer on the stalled trade pact with Mexico and Canada to President Donald Trump's Trade envoy, a sign the deal could be on track for congressional approval this fall.
Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal told reporters after meeting with United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer that the offer covers all four areas which Democrats expressed concern about, including labor, environmental, enforcement and drug patent protection.
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CTV News
A slumping global economy and the U.S.-China trade war are hurting freight volumes and revenue, says Canadian National Railway Co.'s chief financial officer.
"Our volumes are much weaker than expected. This is not a CN phenomenon, this is an industry phenomenon," Ghislain Houle told a CIBC investor conference in Montreal recently.
Unemployment in North America remains near record lows, Houle noted. "However I would say that most, if not everybody, would agree that we're at the end of an expansion cycle."
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AAR
The Association of American Railroads reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending September 28, 2019, as well as volumes for September 2019.
U.S. railroads originated 992,542 carloads in September 2019, down 7 percent, or 74,172 carloads, from September 2018. U.S. railroads also originated 1,061,483 containers and trailers in September 2019, down 5.9 percent, or 65,989 units, from the same month last year.
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Canadian Shipper
Global supply chain and operations consulting firm, Maine Pointe, announced its collaboration and support of a key industry white paper titled "Rail Optimization: Carrier/Shipper/Investor Relationships" in association with the Center for Railway Research and Education at The Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University.
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RailwayAge
By age 10, two lessons should be learned — no ketchup on hot dogs, and government does not move at the speed of for-profit business.
It follows from Lesson Two that a captive rail shipper's lot is not a happy one — captive shippers being those lacking effective transportation alternatives to rail.
Since 1980, when railroads were partially deregulated under the Staggers Rail Act, and Congress promised captive shippers regulatory protection should railroads abuse market power, the response by regulators — the Surface Transportation Board and its Interstate Commerce Commission predecessor — has been sloth-like.
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Canadian Shipper
Melius Energy says it has successfully tested a new technology that allows oilsands bitumen to be shipped as a semi-solid product in six-metre-long shipping containers.
The Calgary-based company says it moved 130 barrels of bitumen treated with the BitCrude process from Edmonton to Prince Rupert, B.C., by intermodal rail.
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Canadian Shipper
A new $500,000 analytics lab at Mount Royal University lets students seek out and analyze live and historical business data crucial to navigating Canada's new economy.
The industry-leading technology in the CN Supply Chain Analytics Lab provides students with dedicated space to work on the Refinitiv Eikon Data Platform that accesses the inner-workings of companies around the world in real time.
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Progressive Railroading
CN announced that Unifor affiliated truck drivers for CN subsidiary CNTL have ratified a four-year contract retroactive to Sept. 16.
The pact covers 950 owner-operators under the recently negotiated collective agreement with CNTL in Canada, CN announced in a press release.
CNTL is a key link in the railroad's integrated supply chain, said Keith Reardon, senior vice president of consumer product supply chain at CN.
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Canadian Shipper
The city of Montreal has kicked off a pilot project aimed at reducing the impacts of "last mile" delivery by replacing delivery trucks with more efficient, economical, and environmentally friendly vehicles, such as electric cargo bikes.
The Arrondissement de Ville-Marie launched the Colibri project, on the site of the former Montréal bus station on Boulevard De Maisonneuve Est between Rue Berri and Rue Saint-Hubert.
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Canadian Shipper
A recent Platts Analytics report, we found a compelling economic case can be made for future fuel cell trucks in long haul applications, though economies of scale and cost declines in both hydrogen production and fuel cell manufacturing are necessary.
Semi trucks are the workhorse of modern road freight.
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The Load Star
Drone Delivery Canada and its marketing arm, Air Canada Cargo, are on the taxiway to commercial operations. The pair have announced the first commercial customer for the fledgling drone company, with operations set to commence next month.
Contrary to widespread predictions of commercial cargo drone activities kicking off in remote rural areas, DDC's first client is looking to use its drones between its various properties in the suburbs of the Greater Toronto Area.
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By Matt Falcus
 Built to relieve pressure in one of the world's busiest cities for air travel, the new Daxing Airport near Beijing formally opened last week, with the first passengers boarding one of seven flights on the day of opening. With its iconic starfish-shaped terminal and world-class design, Daxing is set to become one of the world’s major air hubs. It was built as the city’s Capital Airport has started to reach a saturation point. China is expected to become the largest aviation market in the world by 2022.
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Canadian Shipper
UPS says it has won government approval to run a drone airline, a first for a U.S. company, and it plans to expand deliveries on hospital campuses and eventually other industries.
United Parcel Service Inc. said Tuesday that its drone subsidiary was awarded an airline certificate last week by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Freight Waves
Shippers should prepare for 100 percent hikes in freight costs in pursuit of global climate change goals, delegates at an International Chamber of Shipping conference were warned recently.
Lord Turner, chair of the U.K.'s Energy Transitions Commission, said shipping was one of the hardest sectors in the global economy to decarbonize.
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Canadian Shipper
August proved to be a strong month for Great Lakes-Seaway shipping led by grain exports, iron ore, road salt and construction materials.
Despite the busy August, St. Lawrence Seaway cargo tonnage from March 22 to August 31 totaled 20.9 million tonnes, down 3.5 per cent from last year.
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JOC.com
Importers in the eastbound trans-Pacific were warned by a large shippers association to expect at least a 9 percent increase in all-in freight costs next year after the International Maritime Organization's (IMO's) low-sulfur fuel mandate takes effect.
Carriers have cautioned beneficial cargo owners since the TPM conference in Long Beach in March that with thin margins in the eastbound trans-Pacific, they will not be able to absorb any of the increased costs of the higher fuel and they intend to pass them on to customers.
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The Load Star
Supply chain executives need to prepare to transform their operations from a linear to circular model, as sustainability increasingly becomes a priority for consumers and corporations alike.
According to supply chain consultancy Gartner, the economy is increasingly becoming "circular", which it defines as "an economic model that separates the ability to achieve economic growth from the consumption of natural resources," and which has been championed by former British solo sailor Ellen MacArthur.
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Canadian Shipper
Following its amalgamation in June, the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority (or HOPA) has launched a rebrand with a new logo.
"The Port Authority sought a modern brand and visual identity that would resonate in Hamilton and Oshawa, and convey its evolution into a progressive maritime industry leader," the port stated in a press release.
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