b'20American Journal of Transportation ajot.comI ntermodal& l ogIstIcsn ews9,000 new chassis being added to HRCPIIs fleet through end of FY21 at the Port of VirginiaThe Port of Virginias continual investment inhave one of the youngest chassis pool fleets in the new equipment is helping to build one of the young- industry. Current plans for FY21 will advance our est chassis fleets in the nation, with the average agerenewal process to 95 percent completion.of chassis in the ports pool being 3.5 years old. In addition to rotating new chassis into service Experts in the field estimate the average ageand retiring older units, HRCPII uses technology to of an intermodal chassis to be 15-years to 20-plus- provide visibility into the status of its chassis and years-old. But with a continual cycle of adding newmanage maintenance. The program, provided by a units and retiring old ones, the port is ensuring aprivate vendor, helps identify predictive, preventa-young, safe, road-worthy chassis fleet for the motortive, or corrective maintenance to ensure that chas-carriers servicing the port. sis are serviced on a regular schedule.In fiscal year 2020, Hampton Roads ChassisThe goal is to provide safe and road-ready Pool II, the ports wholly-owned chassis manage- chassis to the motor carriers servicing The Port of The FUSo ecanter is produced in Tramagl, Portugal ment and empty container yard management entity,Virginia and use of technology really helps in our added 3,600 new chassis to its fleet. In fiscal yeareffort, said Arthur W. Ellermann, HRCP IIs man-2021, 5,000 more new units will be put into ser- aging director. Technology helps minimize down-DB Schenker expands itsvice and 760 new units are scheduled for deliverytime, gathers important data, and allows us to make in 2022. Moreover, 60 percent of the chassis in theinformed decisions on the usable life-cycle of the electric fleet with 36 newfleet have been acquired since 2015. chassis in a pool environment.TheefforttokeepthefleetyoungreducesThe addition of new chassis and use of pred-FUSO eCanter vehicles down-time for maintenance and helps keep repairs toicative maintenance has led to a 50-percent reduc-a minimum, said John F. Reinhart, CEO and execu- tion in over-the-road downtime for chassis and the Internationallogisticsser- Trucks Asia (DTA). tive director of the Virginia Port Authority. With thenumber of out-of-service units is averaging 1.5 per-vice provider DB Schenker andadditional acquisitions planned during FY21, wellcent, Ellermann said.FUSO, a Daimler Trucks brand,E mIssIon andn oIsE -f rEEare further expanding their pio- In20 E uroPEanc ItIEsneering partnership in the fieldFUSO is currently produc-ofe-mobility.Inthecominging the 36 new vehicles for DB months, DB Schenker will bringSchenker at its European plant atotalof36additionalFUSOinTramagal,Portugal.Inthe eCanter vehicles into operationnextfewweeks,theywillbe inelevenEuropeancountries.equippedwithboxbodiesand Europes leading land transporttailliftsfromvariousbody-provider is thus strengthening itsbuilders,thusrenderingthem sustainabilitystrategyandfur- idealfordeliveringpackaged ther expanding the use of electricgoods. For the German market, vehicles in its mixed fleets. DBfor example, the bodies are built Schenker has already been usingby Spier in Steinheim who have theFUSOeCanterinBerlinalready a very good collabora-since 2018 delivering packagedtion in place with FUSO and the goods in the city center. SinceeCanter. The final handovers of 2019,thecompanyhasaddedtheFUSOeCantervehiclesto further vehicles in Paris, Frank- DB Schenker will start succes-furt and the Stuttgart area. sively before the end of the year DB Schenker is a pioneeratthevariouslocationsofthe for innovations in logistics, andlogistics company.now we are becoming the lead- DBSchenkerwillusethe ing provider of green logistics.all-electric light-duty trucks with Wefocusonsustainability,(EXPANDScontinued on from the first to the last mile,page 22) The Port of virginia will add 5,000 new chassis to the Hampton Roads chassis Pool II fleet.saysCyrilleBonjean,Headof LandTransportEuropeatDB Schenker. Emission-free logis-tics in cities is already possible today, as we are demonstrating throughout Europe together with FUSO and the new eCanter. We are proud that we were able to secureasignificantportionof the eCanter production run fromSingle Source Solutions S3this year for us. What that means for our customers: they continueLearn how our S3 can empower your intermodal to get the same service but withtransportation program. Its the Single Source zero local emissions. Solution that will pay dividends for you from We are very happy to takeports and rails to warehouse and distribution our partnership with DB Schen-ker to the next level with thesesolutions nationwide.36locallyemission-freeFUSOLETS CONNECT. 855-4ROADONE eCanter trucks. Together, we areOne Kellaway Drive(855-476-2366)takingafurtherstepinelectri- Randolph, MA 02368www.roadone.comfying urban logistics, contribut-ingtodecreasednoiseandair pollutioninmajorcitiesacross eleven European countries. ThisSolutions That Connect Corporate HeadquartersannouncementrepresentstheDomestic Intermodal Trucking Solutions Regional Officesbiggest eCanter fleet deal to dateService CentersandIwouldliketothankDBInternational Intermodal Trucking Solutions Northeast RegionSchenker for their continued trustContainer Terminal Solutions Midwest Regionin FUSO on our shared missionRegional Dedicated Truckload Solutions South Regiontowards CO2-neutral transporta- National Transloading, Warehousing and Distribution Solutions West Regiontion, underlines Hartmut Schick, President and CEO of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus CorporationReliabilityTenacitySafetyIntegrityLoyalty(MFTBC) and Head of Daimler'