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American Shipper
Track all the ships in the world. What they're carrying, where they're loading, where they're unloading. Create a near-real-time map of how all commodities and goods flow across the globe. This is the holy grail of ocean shipping data — one that companies such as Cargometrics, VesselsValue, Kpler, IHS Markit and others have pursued for years.
This data is more valuable than ever in the age of coronavirus — and now there's a new source. One that's actually free.
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AAR.org
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending August 29, 2020, as well as volumes for August 2020.
U.S. railroads originated 898,227 carloads in August 2020, down 14.9 percent, or 156,797 carloads, from August 2019. U.S. railroads also originated 1,122,954 containers and trailers in August 2020, up 3 percent, or 33,115 units, from the same month last year. Combined U.S. carload and intermodal originations in August 2020 were 2,021,181, down 5.8 percent, or 123,682 carloads and intermodal units from August 2019.
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Blacklock's Reporter
National railways will spend nearly #79 million installing locomotive video and voice recorders, the Department of Transport said recently. Parliament has mandated installation of high-grade recorders in all cabs within two years.
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CTV News
The owner of a freight rail line between the Sault and Sudbury says it's ending operations of the line at the end of the year.
The American-based firm, Genesee & Wyoming, said without government funding to help fix the rail line, it won't delay the shutdown of the Huron Central Railway any longer.
"Right now, everybody is talking about restoring the economy or getting us back to work," said Joe Fratesi, a former Sault mayor who has been working to save the railway.
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American Shipper
Canadian Pacific are vying to be the top freight railroad in Eastern Canada, with both companies seeing the Atlantic Canada ports as having untapped potential.
The ports at Saint John and Halifax have access not only to Eastern and Central Canada, but also to the coveted U.S. Midwestern market and the Eastern U.S. CN has access to both ports, while CP — with its recent acquisition of the Central Maine and Quebec Railway — has direct access to Port Saint John.
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Inside Logistics
CN will be buying 50 new electric trucks from Lion Electric to add to its intermodal terminals fleet.
In April of 2019, CN launched a pilot program to test the use of custom-built electric trucks engineered by Quebec-based The Lion Electric Co. These zero-emission trucks, slated for intermodal use, will be tested in a variety of situations and environments across the CN network, from urban delivery, container shuttle service, to port operations.
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By Matt Falcus
One thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought us is a step up in technology, particularly in areas that affect our travel and interaction with the world. Now it seems the technology to allow the process of transiting an airport from door to gate could become as close to "touchless" as possible, thanks to innovations in technology being fast-tracked by different companies.
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American Shipper
Global air cargo traffic was weaker than expected in July, but new export orders indicate strong sector growth for the remainder of the year, the International Air Transport Association said Monday.
Anticipation that airfreight bookings will take off again during the next few weeks is echoed by logistics specialists who see heavy ongoing demand for COVID-19 protective equipment, retailers building up holiday inventories during the traditional peak shipping season and major device releases from the likes of Apple, Samsung and Sony.
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American Shipper
The International Civil Aviation Organization and the Universal Postal Union encouraged national governments to provide postal, air cargo and express mail operators with the resources and regulatory flexibility necessary to maintain efficient delivery service during the coronavirus crisis.
A joint statement by the UN agencies aligns with recommendations this summer from ICAO’s Aviation Recovery Task Force for nations to provide flexibility to operators hauling airmail and air cargo, including emergency food and medical necessities.
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Drone Delivery Canada
Drone Delivery Canada Corp. is pleased to provide an update on the Condor drone from successful testing in Foremost, Alberta, Canada.
The Company successfully tested numerous critical aspects of the Condor, including: triple-redundant communications system (satellite, cellular, 900MHz RF); triple-redundant navigational guidance system; triple-redundant autopilot system; monitoring of unmanned flights remotely from DDC’s Operations Control Centre in Vaughan, Ontario; general flight stability and performance; and fuel consumption characteristics.
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Supply Chain DIVE
The pandemic worsened through July in many parts of the world, with the United States seeing case counts crest around the middle of the month.
But consumer spending is improving — rising 1.9% in July compared to June, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The increased demand for goods, coupled with capacity pulled from the market, has kept airfreight rates at elevated levels.
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Ottawa Business Journal
A sharp rise in cargo flights serving Canada's capital this summer highlights an important but often overlooked part of the Ottawa International Airport's operations that enables local businesses to quickly reach customers in other markets.
Air freight is typically handled either on dedicated cargo flights operated by carriers such as FedEx, Cargojet and Canadian North or in the belly of passenger aircraft, below the cabin, flown by the likes of Air Canada and WestJet.
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Iniside Logistics
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, trucker Dave Wye had to think long and hard about whether he was willing to stay on the front lines.
The 54-year-old, a second-generation long-haul driver from Windsor, Ontario, worried his exposure while transporting whiskey and wine between Quebec and Kentucky would risk his own health as well as his family's.
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Freight Waves
Citing strong spot market fundamentals and low retail inventories, UBS freight transportation analyst Tom Wadewitz raised his forecasts for truckload carriers for the back half of the year.
"Truckload spot market data have shown a better-than-normal seasonal pattern with continuing strength in spot loads in July and August," stated Wadewitz in a Friday note to clients.
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National Post
Cross-border truck traffic between Canada and the United States — that dropped steeply when the pandemic hit — is returning to near-normal levels, signalling liftoff for economic recovery.
The latest border travel data means more than just good news for the trucking industry. It suggests that while COVID-19 remains a dangerous menace, we're shaking off the economic malaise that came with it.
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Freight Waves
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is considering allowing drivers one off-duty break of at least 30 minutes — but not more than three hours — that would pause a truck driver's 14-hour driving window.
The FMCSA announced Friday it would consider the change, which includes a stipulation that the driver takes 10 consecutive hours off duty at the end of the work shift, through a three-year pilot program. Details of the proposal can be viewed here.
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The Kingston Whig Standard
Booming exports of grain are driving the Great Lakes shipping industry's rebound, with shipments of Canadian grain up 13 per cent from last year.
The demand for grain helps offset downturns among many other products, like coal, steel and iron ore, which have brought the overall amount of cargo shipped on the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway down eight per cent year-to-date.
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The Loadstar
Ocean carriers are continuing with their "cautious" approach to capacity management, announcing a new series of blanked sailings in October.
Both the 2M and THE alliances have withdrawn headhaul capacity in weeks 40 to 44 to mitigate expected reduced demand due to the Chinese Golden Week holiday, the first week of next month.
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gCaptain
Maersk will cut jobs in a major shake-up that will affect a third of the shipping giant’s staff as it seeks to integrate its seaborne container and in-land logistics businesses, it said recently.
Maersk, which handles about one in five containers shipped worldwide, has been under pressure from investors to speed its transformation from an unwieldy conglomerate but has proved resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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