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Canada Post outlines what it learned in 2020
Inside Logistics
In 2017, Canada Post delivered one million parcels on 67 different days, mostly during the holiday season. In 2020, it started delivering a million or more parcels a day in mid-April and continued right through to the end of the year — 181 consecutive delivery days.
During the two weeks leading up to and including Christmas Eve, the postal service delivered just under 20 million parcels to Canadians, with a record 2.4 million of those delivered in one day — Monday, December 21st.
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.RAIL
Rail traffic for the week ending February 6, 2021
AAR
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending February 6, 2021.
For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 495,815 carloads and intermodal units, up 2.2 percent compared with the same week last year.
Total carloads for the week ending February 6 were 226,393 carloads, down 2.5 percent compared with the same week in 2020, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 269,422 containers and trailers, up 6.4 percent compared to 2020.
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CP posts record January for Canadian grain transport
Progressive Railroading
Canadian Pacific moved 2.22 million metric tons (MMT) of Canadian grain and grain products in January, which exceeded the previous January record set in 2020 by 6%, the Class I reported yesterday.
CP has shipped 16 MMT of Canadian grain and grain products in the 2020-2021 crop year, exceeding the amount shipped at the same time in the 2019-2020 crop year by more than 13%, CP officials said in a press release.
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.TRUCKING
Quiet on the M&A front, Mullen Group may eye US market
Truck News
Mullen Group may take a closer look at expanding in the U.S., as a stagnant Canadian economy and pricey valuations have tempered the company's appetite to make a major deal here.
Murray Mullen, chairman, CEO and president of Mullen Group took plenty of questions about the company’s lack of acquisitions during an earnings call with analysts Feb. 11.
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To electrify fleets, plan for the long term
Heavy Duty Trucking
Fleet managers who want to acquire electric vehicles should first decide on a long-term strategy before taking near-term actions, according to a recent research report from a global think tank dedicated to clean energy transition.
Although many fleet managers and operators have already started buying EVs and charging equipment as part of gradual pilot programs, electrifying a fleet involves a more organized and sweeping process that affects all functions of an organization, concludes a report from the independent, non-partisan Rocky Mountain Institute, titled "Steep Climb Ahead: How Fleet Managers Can Prepare for the Coming Wave of Electrified Vehicles."
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New equipment, revenue-generating terminals part of TForce Freight's plan
Truck News
TFI International's first step in integrating the UPS Freight fleet it purchased in January will be to upgrade the equipment to reduce maintenance and repair costs, and improve driver satisfaction.
"Focus number one is equipment," Alain Bedard, chairman and CEO of TFI International said during a conference call with analysts this week.
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.AIR
In my opinion — Dominic Hyde on vaccine logistics
Air Cargo Week
As the development of successful COVID-19 vaccines continues at a rapid rate, the world's first approved vaccines are already being administered as part of ongoing mass vaccination programmes worldwide.
Temperature controlled packaging manufacturers continue to play a pivotal part in the global deployment of these approved vital vaccines, including those developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, Oxford University/AstraZeneca and Moderna.
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Seabury report: Global air cargo capacity declines by 17 percent in the last two weeks
The STAT
The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and humanitarian crisis, and it is also an economic shock. Accenture has been providing weekly updates throughout the crisis on air cargo capacity changes based on actual flight movements. With the assistance of Seabury Consulting, now part of Accenture's travel industry practice, it is able to provide insights and data on air, express and ocean freight demand and capacity on a global basis.
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Strong start to 2021
Air Cargo Week
Exceptional global air cargo load factors in the last two weeks of January saw 2021 begin with an unusual New Year "peak season" as demand and supply were closely matched, according to the latest weekly market data from industry analysts CLIVE Data Services and TAC Index.
CLIVE's "dynamic load factor" analyses for the first four weeks of the year ending 31st January, based on the volume and weight perspectives of cargo flown and capacity available, shows a load factor of 66%, up 9% pts year-on-year.
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Montreal airports up landing fees
Inside Logistics
Montreal's airport authority, ADM Aeroports de Montreal, is increasing fees in an attempt to stay financially afloat during the pandemic.
ADM Aeroports de Montreal is the airport authority for the Greater Montreal area responsible for the management, operation and development of YUL Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, and YMX International Aerocity of Mirabel.
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SAF takes off
Air Cargo Week
For the first time worldwide, a passenger flight partly flown on sustainably produced synthetic kerosene, was carried out in The Netherlands.
This was announced during the international conference on Synthetic Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) in The Hague.
Shell, producer of the sustainable kerosene and KLM, operating the flight, presented this showcase during the meeting initiated by Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Dutch Minister for Infrastructure and Water Management.
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Cargojet plans fleet expansion
Inside Logistics
Cargojet Inc. is planning to purchase five Boeing 767 freighters and two B-777 freighters to keep up with pandemic-fueled e-commerce activity.
The Hamilton, Ontario-based company has raised $350 million through a stock offering.
The 767s are slated for delivery starting this year, with the last one arriving in 2023.
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.MARINE
Port of Long Beach has best January on record
American Shipper
The Port of Long Beach began 2021 the same way it ended 2020 — by setting records.
The port reported this week it just had its best January on record, moving 764,006 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a 21.9% jump from the same month last year. It was the first time the nation’s second-busiest seaport handled more than 700,000 TEUs in the month of January, surpassing the previous record set in January 2018 by a whopping 106,176 TEUs.
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Fury at Gove as exports to EU slashed by 68 percent since Brexit
The Guardian
The volume of exports going through British ports to the EU fell by a staggering 68% last month compared with January last year, mostly as a result of problems caused by Brexit, the Observer can reveal.
The dramatic drop in the volume of traffic carried on ferries and through the Channel tunnel has been reported to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove by the Road Haulage Association after a survey of its international members.
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As digitisation improves visibility, LCL is becoming more attractive to shippers
The Loadstar
The shortage of containers in major tradelanes is driving demand for less-than-containerload (LCL) solutions.
With boxes only available at exorbitant rates, more shippers and forwarders are more open to less-straightforward alternatives to full container offerings.
"Demand is up," confirmed Graham Cousins, chief strategy officer of Vanguard Logistics Services.
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Global supply chains choke under tsunami of freight
American Shipper
With global supply chains buckling under huge order volumes and a confluence of disruptive forces, shippers should prepare for 2021 to be a perpetual peak season across all transport modes, logistics experts warn.
Competition for freight space is so fierce that companies will need to pay exorbitant premiums to get on planes and vessels and apply more flexible shipping methods to avoid delays.
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