Transportation News, Logistics, Ports and Trade

Digital logistics chains: Smart wagon upgrade meets the half-way point

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Intermodal | Logistics | Trucking

DB Cargo is powering ahead with the digitalisation of its freight wagon fleet: the 34,000th wagon with state-of-the-art telematics and smart sensors rolled out of the refitting facility in Seelze near Hanover today. By 2020, the approximately 68,000 wagons in the company's German fleet will all have the digital technology on board – the result of investing a high seven-figure sum.

Agility invests $18 million in green supply chain technologies

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Logistics

Faster turnarounds, better services seen at CA-4’s busiest port

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Ports & Terminals

Customers and port stakeholders of Operadora Portuaria Centroamericana (OPC), the Honduran subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) operating Puerto Cortes, Central America 4’s (CA-4) largest port, can expect faster cargo movement in and around the terminal with OPC beefing up its partnership with Honduran authorities for improved and more efficient port services.

SEA\LNG grows US network with Stabilis Energy

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Energy

OmniTRAX adds Cleveland Commercial Railroad to strengthen shipper service in Northern Ohio

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Intermodal | Rail

Quest Solution receives $1.3 million order for Android-based data collection and analysis equipment from multi-billion dollar company

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Logistics

Tradeshift and 71lbs announce strategic app solution on Tradeshift platform

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Logistics

5,200 Alaska Airlines employees ratify new five-year agreements

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Air Cargo | Airlines

Greenbrier announces tank barge order from Crowley Maritime

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Maritime | Bulk

Historic Boston bridge wins National Public Works award

AJOT Newsroom | August 27, 2019 | Intermodal | Trucking

The Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation Design-Build project was honored by the American Public Works Association (APWA) with a 2019 Public Works Project of the Year Award in the category of Historical Restoration/Preservation more than $75 million.

International Trade

Bloomberg | August 27, 2019

The US-China trade war is ruining Christmas for toymakers

Chinese factories are normally at their busiest during the third quarter, cranking out production of everything from Barbie dolls to miniature trucks in time to ship them over the ocean to the U.S. ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season. This year’s different.