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As 2020 comes to a close, FMA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the FMA News Bulletin a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 9.
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11. Ransomware attack hits TFI's Canadian courier divisions
Freight Waves
From Aug. 28: A ransomware attack hit TFI International's four Canadian courier divisions, two days after the transportation and logistics company raised millions of dollars in a share offering.
The attack impacted "some systems" of Canpar Express, ICS Courier, Loomis Express and TForce Integrated Solutions, according to notices posted to the couriers' websites.
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12. John Corey joins FMA as Vice-President
FMA
From Jan. 9: Effective Jan. 9, 2020, John Corey is appointed as Vice-President at the Freight Management Association of Canada (FMA).
John has been working at the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) since 1991 and has experience in both the Air and Rail branches of the Agency. He was appointed as Manager Rail Investigations in 2004 and then Team Leader – Mediation Services in 2013. Both services are part of the Dispute Resolution Branch.
In these last two appointments, John played a major role in settling disputes between the federally regulated freight railways and their customers.
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14. Critic, workers' group 'disappointed' Trudeau chose Amazon to distribute PPE
Canadian Shipper
From April 9: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing criticism after he announced Friday that the country is teaming up with U.S. tech giant Amazon.com Inc. to distribute personal protective equipment like masks and gloves across the country.
Public Services and Procurement Canada says Amazon will provide the services at cost and without making a profit, while ensuring "vast quantities" of masks, gloves and other equipment purchased by the government are provided to frontline health-care workers and others in need as quickly as possible.
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15. How 3 years of the European deal has affected Canadian trade
Inside Logistics
From Oct. 29: CETA, the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, our free trade agreement with the European Union, had its third birthday on September 21. As customs duties (or tariffs, as they are also called) on most products were eliminated on that date, the agreement opened great opportunities for Canadian manufacturers and importers to competitively source raw materials, components, parts and finished products from Europe. It also provided our exporters with access to a huge new market, at a time where our largest export market, the United States, remains unpredictable, as we saw with the aluminum tariff issue. In addition to making European products more competitive in Canada and Canadian products more competitive in Europe, trade in services and public procurement were made easier in both directions.
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16. ELD Mandate set in stone: Teamsters Canada and Canadian Trucking Alliance
Canadian Trucking Alliance
From July 16: 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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17. North American supply chains are impacted by labor disruptions in Canada
Logistics Management
From Oct. 1: Following a strike by dockworkers that lasted for one month and paralyzed operations at the Port of Montreal in August and September of this year, Resilience360 research indicates that major ports both on the west and east coast of Canada continue to experience disruption ranging from port congestion to rail car shortages.
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18. DP World (Canada) joins FMA
Fright Management Association
From Oct. 8: FMA is pleased to announce that DP World Canada has become a member of the Association.
DP World commenced operations at Port Rashid, Dubai in 1972 and has grown and now has 150 operating sites around the world.
Canadian Stevedoring Limited was founded in 1923 with the mission of serving BC's marine industry. These origins make it the oldest Canadian-owned stevedoring company still in existence today. In 1968, subsidiary Casco Terminals established and became the terminal operator of Centennial Pier (Centerm), now DP World Vancouver's current site.
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19. $1 billion Mexico-Canada rail link proposed
American Shipper
From Oct. 22: Mexico-based Caxxor Group is seeking investors for a proposed North American trade corridor aimed at connecting the Mexican Pacific Coast with the United States and Canada through a new rail corridor.
Dubbed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Corridor, the proposed new trade route would require building a logistics terminal in Winnipeg, Canada, and expanding the shipyard at the Port of Mazatlán in Mexico. The new logistics terminals would handle containers, automobiles, bulk commodities and petroleum products.
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20. USMCA ratification delayed in Canada
Washington Examiner
From Feb. 20: President Trump may have already celebrated the passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade, but the deal hasn't yet been ratified by Canada, and it may not be for weeks.
"It is a major economic issue for the regions. We can't just move on," Yves-Francois Blanchet, leader of the Canadian Parliament's Bloc Quebecois, tweeted recently. Blanchet promised "developments in the coming days" but gave no further details. Bloc Quebecois and other relatively small opposition groups have used parliamentary procedure to slow the deal.
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