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TMW Systems Survey Reveals Trucking Industry Eager to Diversify; Maximizing Driver Miles is Most Important in Driver Retention

Inaugural survey indicates operating ratios are struggling, opportunity to improve: with goal to achieve sub-90 percent, 71 percent of companies report 94 percent or higher.

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Amazon To Use Bikes For 1-Hour Delivery in Manhattan

Amazon has been holding time trials with messengers from at least three courier services to pick the speediest and most careful for its delivery fleet.

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Congress Considers Suspending Truckers Hours Of Service Rule

The DOT-funding bill bouncing around Congress earlier this year included an amendment to suspend the restart provisions in the 2013 hours of service rule, pending more study on the rule and its impact on safety and efficiency.

A driver enters hours of service information using a Cadec onboard computer.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Maersk Line Announces January Rate Increase And Surcharge

A.P. Moller- Maersk

Both the general rate increase and the peak season surcharge will take effect GRI Jan. 15, 2015.

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Victorville, Calif. To Expand Southern California Logistics Airport

In 2010, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group completed its manufacturing and warehouse facility at SCLA, which now serves the company’s entire West Coast beverage-consuming demand. M&M/Mars also relocated its refrigerated candy warehouse operation to SCLA in 2011.

Transportation Insight Named Fastest-Growing Private Company In Charlotte Region

Transportation Insight, LLC

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Maersk Line To Close Pacific Shipping Service

In a notice advising customers of the decision, Maersk Line said the overall trans-Pacific trade and its TP5 service between North China, South Korea and Japan to the West Coast had provided unprofitable results for nine out of the last 10 years.

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Air Freight Rebounds To 2010 Levels

International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Air freight demand, measured in freight ton kilometers (FTK), rose 5.4 percent in October compared to October 2013.

Measured in freight ton kilometers (FTKs), demand increased 5.0 percent in July 2016, compared to July 2015. This was the fastest pace in almost 18 months. Freight capacity measured in available freight ton kilometers (AFTKs) increased by 5.2 percent year-on-year, outstripping demand and keeping yields under pressure.

Georgia Ports Continue To Report Record Freight Activity

Georgia Ports Authority

Savannah's Garden City Terminal handled a record 311,759 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) in October - a 13.6 percent increase (37,432 TEUs) compared to the same month a year ago.

Georgia Ports Authority's Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah.

Software & Technology

WAM Technologies Launches Remote Monitoring For Vessels

VesselConnect offers a low-infrastructure, cost-effective alternative to older power line modem (PLM) technology for remote reefer monitoring, which requires ships to be fitted with cables and other control hardware.

U.S. Sweet Potato Exports Surge

The value of sweet potato exports has risen to $95 million, according to a news release from the Benson, N.C.-based American Sweet Potato Marketing Institute.

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Florida-based Meal Delivery Service Expands To New York

Fresh Meal Plan, a prepared meal plan company based in Florida, will initiate service in the New York metropolitan region commencing with deliveries on the night of Jan. 4, 2015.

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