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Fire at Norway Airport destroys hundreds of cars, grounds planes

Bloomberg | January 07, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airports

US Transportation Secretary Chao awards $7.5 million in grants for America’s marine highways

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Varcode continues growth with two new business development hires

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Logistics

Atlas Air Worldwide announces ACMI placement with EL AL

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Senate passage of USMCA faces delay, even with committee passage

International Trade

Bloomberg | Top Story | January 07, 2020

Senate passage of USMCA faces delay, even with committee passage

A full Senate vote on President Donald Trump’s rewritten Nafta trade agreement will be put off until next week at the earliest, after the deal was referred to multiple committees for review, according to a GOP aide.

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RoboSense announces world’s first public road test of vehicle equipped with Smart LiDAR Sensor

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

RoboSense, the leading autonomous driving LiDAR perception solution provider, announced today the world’s first public road test of a vehicle equipped with a Smart LiDAR Sensor at CES 2020. The RoboSense Smart LiDAR car, featuring the award-winning RS-LiDAR-M1 Smart LiDAR, will be running outside the Las Vegas Convention Center daily during CES 2020, showing the latest technological progress in autonomous vehicle LiDAR. Simultaneous exhibitions will be held at RoboSense’s CES Booth #6138 at the LVCC, North Hall showcasing the real-time 3D point cloud data on a vehicle equipped with the multi-LiDAR fusion system.

New Damco leadership team headed by Saskia Groen-in’t-Woud puts people and performance at the heart of fresh strategy

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Logistics

Leading class 1 railroad completes deployment of multi-phase pilot program with Ondas Networks

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Green Circle Growers is live with 3Gtms Transportation Management System

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Logistics | Shipping Technology

US international trade in goods and services, November 2019

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | International Trade

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Retaining supply chain fluidity amid Chinese New Year shutdowns

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Logistics

Chinese New Year (CNY) is one of the most impactful events to international trade. In 2020, January 25th will be the first day of CNY, known as the “Year of the Rat”. The Lunar New Year is also celebrated in other Asian countries such as Vietnam and Korea also at the same time. This is typically a time when Asians travel and visit relatives to celebrate the festivities with loved ones. For instance, some 80 million Chinese workers, most from urban areas along China’s coast, travel back to their rural hometowns.

Thordon seal retrofit keeps Hadi OTSV on-hire

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Maritime | Technology

Kalmar’s electric forklifts to help Sagres improve cost efficiency and environmental performance in Brazil

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Ports & Terminals

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Crude oil prices were generally lower in 2019 than in 2018

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Energy

The price of Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, averaged $64 per barrel (b) in 2019, $7/b lower than its 2018 average. The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, the U.S. benchmark, averaged $57/b in 2019, $7/b lower than in 2018.

Prepared for take-off: Aquiline Drones ascends to new heights to become fastest-growing, full-service drone company in the US

AJOT | January 07, 2020 | Air Cargo | Technology

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Bloomberg | Top Story | January 07, 2020

US trade gap shrinks to smallest since 2016 on export gain

The U.S. trade gap narrowed in November to the smallest in three years as exports advanced amid a thaw in the trade war with China, while imports fell to the lowest since 2017.