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Georgia Port Pins Hopes on Rail to Move 80,000 Containers

At the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest U.S. trade gateways, containers are stacked up like colorful children’s building blocks stretching as far as the eye can see.

A truck carries a shipping container at the Georgia Port Authority Mason Mega Rail Terminal in Garden City, Georgia. Photo: Bloomberg.

Trucking Profits Soar as Their Customers Grapple With Shortages

While a global supply chain crisis is crimping sales for companies from Apple Inc. to Caterpillar Inc., transportation firms are riding an unprecedented profit boom.

A truck carrying a J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. intermodal container enters the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Spireon Introduces the Next Generation of Its Modular Trailer Management Solution and IntelliScan Cargo Sensor

Spireon, a vehicle intelligence company, is introducing the next generation of the FL Flex suite of products and IntelliScan cargo sensor under its FleetLocate product line, timed with American Trucking Association’s (ATA) Management Conference and Exhibition (MCE).

Fifty Years in Idle Time Seen for Trucks at Two Major U.S. Ports

Trucking trips originating around the U.S.’s busiest ports are showing massive increases in idle time, another sign of the supply chain logjams plaguing American transport hubs.

Freight trucks idle at the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Bloomberg.

Blume Global Unveils Drayage Trucking Marketplace to Unclog Port Congestion During Holiday Season

Blume Global, a provider of supply chain execution and visibility technology solutions, has announced CarrierGo Live, a web-based solution that provides shippers, motor carriers and port terminal operators with the tools to alleviate unprecedented supply chain congestion.

Three Tips for Improving Freight Procurement in the Supply Chain Logjam

No part of the supply chain is immune from the turmoil currently plaguing the supply chain industry — especially not freight procurement.

A freight truck drives at sunrise. Photo: Getty Images.

U.S. Retail Lobby Sends S.O.S. to Congress on Supply Chain Chaos

The U.S.’s biggest retail lobby asked Congress to pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package as well as update shipping and trucking laws to ease a supply chain crisis that’s raising prices and causing shortages.

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Photo: Bloomberg.

L.A. Ports Announce New Fees Aimed at Clearing Cargo

Under the new policy, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will charge ocean carriers for each container that falls into one of two categories.

Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Bloomberg.

Amazon Touts Drivers, Warehouses as Salve to Supply Chain Woes

Amazon.com is talking up the size of its delivery operation to ease public alarm that a supply chain crisis could strangle holiday shopping.

An Amazon Air cargo jet sits on a tarmac. Photo: Bloomberg.

Biden Races Clock But Holds Few Tools in Supply Chain Crisis

While Republicans point to the supply chain as further evidence the president is mismanaging the economy, the issues are deep-rooted.

Photo: Bloomberg.

Global Port Gridlock Threatens Economies Everywhere

Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the holiday shopping season, erode corporate profits and drive up consumer prices.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Port-Crisis Plan Seeks Inland U.S. Terminals, More Truckers

Commitments from shippers and cargo owners to move toward around-the-clock unloading at the docks in Los Angeles are a first step to addressing a national supply chain backlog.

Truck chassis sit stacked at the APM shipping terminal in the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Bloomberg.

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