Community Groups Have Port Truckers’ Backs
Over 30 organizations as well as elected officials and community leaders across Puget Sound voice avid support for Port of Seattle trucker’s work stoppage A powerful alliance of community, faith,...
View ArticlePorts Face Drive For More Drivers
Clean air program cleared out pollution, truckers By James Rufus Koren, L.A. Business Journal The clean truck programs at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have cut diesel pollution as intended,...
View ArticleRail & Trucking Industries Call A Truce
By Jeff Plungis and Lisa Caruso The railroad and trucking industries have called a truce, at least for now, in their lobbying battle over increasing the size and weight of trucks allowed on interstate...
View ArticlePort of Los Angeles Adopts Five-Year Strategic Plan
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission unanimously adopted a five-year strategic plan for the Port of Los Angeles for 2012-2017. The plan focuses on three key result areas, or KRAs – competitive operations,...
View ArticleWest Coast Faces Capacity Squeeze If ILA Strikes, Maersk Says
Mike King, Special Correspondent, The Journal of Commerce Online Carrier warns of short supply if ILA decides on strike or lockout Capacity going through U.S. West Coast ports will be in short supply...
View ArticleIntermodal Group Continues Making Plans for Motor Carrier-Based Chassis Pool
By Rip Watson, Transport Topics Efforts to create a motor carrier-based pool to provide intermodal chassis are continuing, though American Trucking Associations’ Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Hear Port of LA Truck Case
ATA seeks overturn of ruling on Port’s “Clean Trucks Program” The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by the American Trucking Assns. (ATA) of a lower court decision that requires trucks...
View ArticlePort Slowdowns Are Affecting Farm Shipments
By Ching Lee California agricultural exporters say the ongoing labor dispute between West Coast dockworkers and shippers continues to hamper their ability to send products to their overseas customers,...
View ArticlePort of L.A. Posts Third Busiest Year In History
Despite congestion woes in the second half of 2014, the Port of L.A. netted one of its best years in port history in terms of cargo volume. The port handled 8.3 million TEUs in 2014, a 6 percent...
View ArticlePort of Long Beach Sees Highest Q3 Cargo Volume in History
After seeing its busiest September in its 104-year history, the Port of Long Beach processed enough cargo volume to achieve its best quarter ever, indicating a return to pre-recession trade levels....
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