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Inside Logistics
People may have found it odd when thieves made off with truckloads of hot tubs and beef within days of each other in rural Alberta, but the Insurance Bureau of Canada says it highlights a growing type of crime perpetrated by sophisticated culprits.
"It's obviously not a new problem. But from what we're seeing in the statistics, the problem seems to be getting worse," said Sid Kingma, who directs the bureau's investigative services arm in Western Canada.
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AAR
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending September 19, 2020.
For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 521,956 carloads and intermodal units, down 1.3 percent compared with the same week last year.
Total carloads for the week ending September 19 were 226,687 carloads, down 9.6 percent compared with the same week in 2019, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 295,269 containers and trailers, up 6.3 percent compared to 2019.
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BusinessWire
Every year, dozens of Canadians are killed or seriously injured in collisions at railway crossings. In fact, there were 174 such incidents in Canada in 2019, which killed 28 people and seriously injured another 29. Sadly, virtually all these tragedies are preventable.
As part of Rail Safety Week (September 21-27, 2020), Operation Lifesaver Canada is pleased to announce that 125 rail-safety decals are being unveiled in 30 communities across the country as part of OL's "Look. Listen. Live."
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Progressive Railroading
Today marks the start of Rail Safety Week in North America. Public awareness activities highlighting the importance of safety around railroad property are being led by Operation Lifesaver Inc. (OLI) in the United States and its partners Operation Lifesaver Canada and the Mexican Association of Railroads (AMF).
In the United States, each day through Sept. 27 will emphasize a different theme. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year Rail Safety Week will emphasize virtual activities and social media to share lifesaving messages, OLI officials said in a press release.
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Inside Logistics
Canadian Pacific has opened its new multi-commodity transload facility in Montréal.
The new facility offers transloading services and supplementary intermodal transportation and distribution services from CP's Côte Saint-Luc yard, with space available for future expansion. CP will operate the facility with TYT Group, a Québec-based freight transportation services provider.
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Progressive Railroading
CN is handling all containers that arrived earlier this month at the Port of Halifax on the CMA CGM Brazil, the largest containerized cargo vessel to call at a Canadian port.
The ship, which measures 1,200 feet in length with a capacity of 15,072 20-foot equivalent units of cargo, berthed at the port's South End Container Terminal on Sept. 9. CN is the exclusive rail service provider to the port.
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American Shipper
Boeing has opened two additional lines overseas to convert former passenger planes to freighters as orders for the 737-800 and 767-300 increase.
On Sunday, Boeing announced it had received an order from an unidentified customer to convert two 737-800s to freighters, increasing its total orders and commitments for this cargo airplane to 134. So far, Boeing has delivered 36 737-800 converted freighters to 10 global operators.
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Freight Waves
Every Sunday our Air Cargo Market Update shines a spotlight on rates and other trends influencing transportation suppliers and buyers.
We're going to focus on new capacity coming into the market, mostly in the form of freighters.
All-cargo operators, including passenger airlines operating cargo-only aircraft, are experiencing record load factors and are expected to be booked solid for the remainder of the year on major trade lanes, with passenger traffic expected to be stunted by the pandemic into 2021.
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American Shipper
The top cargo official at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) will exit early next year as part of a restructuring to reduce costs amid a global pandemic that has wrecked the finances of member airlines.
IATA confirmed that Glyn Hughes, the global head of cargo, and Gordon Wright, in charge of cargo border management, have accepted voluntary separation packages and will depart at the end of January.
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Inside Logistics
An independent study on the off-dock container movements at the Port of Vancouver is calling for changes to the Container Trucking Act to improve fairness and efficiency in the Lower Mainland drayage sector.
Off-Dock Drayage Insights was commissioned by British Columbia amid fresh protests over off-dock trucking activities. It was released recently.
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Freight Waves
Bullish commentary from the trucking industry and positive intraquarter updates from carriers have confirmed what the data has been showing for several weeks now: Third-quarter earnings for trucking companies will be strong and that strength may continue for a while.
While second-quarter results came in ahead of lowered expectations, COVID-19’s impact on demand was evident in most financial reports. After a brief inventory restocking rally in March, trucking demand fell as manufacturing lockouts and municipal shutdown ordinances spread.
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Lloyd's Loading List
The gap between short-and long-term contract ocean freight rates on the transpacific trade lane has risen to a new record difference of US$2,400 per FEU, shipping association BIMCO has highlighted.
And the record gap, according to figures from digital rates specialist Xeneta, is likely to mean higher long-term freight rates when contracts with cargo owners and shippers come up for negotiations and renewal in the coming weeks and months, observed BIMCO’s chief shipping analyst, Peter Sand.
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Splash247.com
Maersk, part of the 2M vessel sharing agreement, communicated last week its intention to reinstate blanked sailings from Asia to the west coast of North America next month, citing enormous pent-up demand, as has Cosco and subsidiary OOCL, both of whom are in the Ocean Alliance. The Alliance member Hapag-Lloyd, meanwhile, has told clients it is bringing back all but five of its blanked sailings to the west coast next month.
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Lloyd Loading List
Leaked UK government documents warn of weeks or months of freight and border disruptions and chaos from January, when the Britain's transition period from leaving the EU ends, including queues of up to 7,000 lorries in Kent and two-day delays to cross into the European Union, unless there is urgent progress made in preparing for the looming changes to UK-EU trading arrangements.
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American Shipper
The Port of Los Angeles had its best month ever in August, but Executive Director Gene Seroka wasn’t sipping champagne during Tuesday’s press conference on volumes.
"One month or even one quarter does not make a trend," Seroka said. "Despite this import surge that we're seeing, the U.S. economy and global trade face significant challenges. Cargo volume remains down nearly 12% year-on-year through August. The trade imbalance has deepened, with American exports continuing to struggle. In my view, our economy remains in a very precarious position."
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American Shipper
The world's largest container ship powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) launched on its maiden voyage Wednesday.
The CMA CGM Jacques Saadé is the first of the French shipping line's nine planned 23,000-twenty-foot-equivalent-unit (TEU) container ships powered by LNG. The vessel is named in honor of the CMA CGM Group's founder, the late Jacques Saadé.
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Drewry
The number of sailings cancelled by carriers in the 2-week period starting 28 September will be 6 times the number for the 2-week period starting 14 September. What does this mean for shippers?
Following the huge number of sailing cancellations triggered by the COVID-19 economic shock (up to 46 cancelled East-West sailings every 2 weeks in April), shippers have been relieved to see ocean carriers limiting the number of cancellations over recent weeks, to an average of just four, in each week of September.
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American Shipper
HMM said it will use data collected at its newly opened fleet control center in part to explore the commercial viability of autonomous ships. The South Korean carrier also may be exploring reentry into the trans-Atlantic trade.
HMM has begun monitoring and directing operations of its existing vessels from the control center at the shipping line’s research and development facility in Busan, South Korea.
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