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Panama Canal Expansion To Bring Reefer Opportunities
Recent trends suggest that the supply chain will shift from container vessels to more versatile reefer containers.
With the Panama Canal expansion, the temperature-controlled logistics industry will benefit from Neopanamax container vessels that will move twice, or even triple, the amount of cargo allowed today.
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Featured In Food Logistics: U.S. Ports Flex Their Muscle
Food Logistics queried a handful of key players about the overall growth in temperature-controlled food shipments, the potential impact of the expanded Panama Canal, and new opportunities associated with the USDA’s “cold treatment” pilot.
Major box ports are doing their part with infrastructure upgrades and other investments aimed at reefer shipments.
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U.S. Box Ports Flex Their Muscle
Key gateways are playing a more prominent role in the expanding global food supply chain.
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Port Communities Fight Investment In Port Infrastructure
Community groups and local activists say unchecked seaport expansion has damaged coastal ecosystems and is choking some of the most densely populated zip codes with dangerously high emissions from trucks, trains and ships entering the ports.
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APM Terminals To Provide VGM Verification At 29 Ports, None Yet In The U.S.
Operational procedures and processes are being reviewed to ensure VGM process compliance throughout the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network.
Initially, APM Terminals will provide VGM generation services to supply chain partners at 29 locations globally, none of which are in the U.S. APM Terminals aims to add further locations where VGM support services can be offered.
Transportation
New Shipping Alliance To Include Major Asian And European Carriers
The deal involves Japan's Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd.; Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd AG; South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co. and Hyundai Merchant Marine Co.; and Taiwan’s Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp.
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Driver Classification Disputes Hammer Port Trucking Companies
Port of Long Beach
The turmoil raises questions about the future of short-haul trucking at the nation’s ports.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, argues that drivers for XPO subsidiaries Pacer Cartage Inc., Harbor Rail Transport and PDS Transportation Inc. failed to pay minimum wage, provide meal breaks and rest breaks and reimburse business expenses, among other allegations.
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West Coast Ports Remained Busiest U.S. Ports Despite Labor Woes In 2015
Port of Los Angeles
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., maintained the first and second spots, respectively, as the leading U.S. ports despite volume losses caused by labor disputes in 2015.
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East Coast Ports Not Ready For Enhanced Panama Canal
As the wider, deeper canal nears its debut next month, ports that stand to gain aren’t ready to handle the bigger ships that will come through.
Another possible drag on new canal traffic is the slumping global economy, which has pummeled shipping rates and left many cargo ships idle.
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Ocean Carriers Mull Carbon Emissions Rules
The shipping sector, like aviation, was excluded from any target cuts under last year's Paris climate deal, which set a goal of restricting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the U.N. agency responsible for regulating pollution from ships, forecasts CO2 emissions from vessels rising anywhere between 50 percent and 250 percent by 2050 in its 'business as usual' case, as economies grow and trade increases.
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Container Carriers Negotiate Third Ocean Carrier Alliance
Hapag-Lloyd
The companies at stake are Hapag-Lloyd, Hanjin, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), MOL, NYK, ‘K’ Line, Yang Ming, and UASC, along with Hamburg Sud which has a series of agreements with UASC.
The companies at stake are Hapag-Lloyd, Hanjin, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), MOL, NYK, ‘K’ Line, Yang Ming, and UASC, along with Hamburg Sud which has a series of agreements with UASC.
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