Drayage

The Port of Los Angeles and GE Transportation are working together to build what they envision will be container terminals of the 21st century.

Direct ChassisLink Inc. has acquired the 11,000-unit chassis fleet of NYK Line (North America) that now operates in pools managed by Consolidated Chassis Management and its affiliates and in the Hampton Roads Chassis Pool.

Intermodal equipment providers hope to launch a long-delayed universal chassis pool at the Port of New York and New Jersey before the Bayonne Bridge is raised later this year.

“The Teamsters are out of control.”

If properly fitted with sensors, a chassis can evolve well beyond its current state of utility.

Marine terminals encouraged to engage with truckers in order to improve turn times.

The acquistion of the Evans Network of Companies, an intermodal operator, signals renewed interest in assets as well as technology.

After initial apprehensiveness, motor carriers and shippers appear to have adjusted to the systems.

Truck traffic at the Port of Charleston’s largest container terminal ground to a halt for several hours Friday.

One of the four main terminals at Port of New York and New Jersey suffered heavier than usual truck congestion for the fourth day in a row.

The Port of Virginia will extend truck gate hours at its Virginia International Gateway terminal, starting Monday, to make up for delays caused by the closing of VIG and three other terminals earlier this month due to snow.

The appointment system designed to combat congestion and improve efficiency at a major terminal of the Port of New York and New Jersey went off without a major glitch on its first regular work day Tuesday.

The accident occurred April 21 in a line of trucks waiting at the staging area at the Global Container Terminal.

A diverse group of shippers is ready to challenge fees that container lines and marine terminals impose for delays at US ports. But first the shippers need approval from federal maritime regulators.

Marine terminal service to truckers in LA-Long Beach deteriorates during the night shift, analysis shows.

The government of India has set the date by which all major, or public, ports should have in automated gate technologies.

PierPass advisory committee will further investigate feasibility of a flat fee and a portwide peel-off program.

Limited rollout at GCT Bayonne is first at US East Coast's largest port.

The PierPass extended gates program at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, which has moved vast quantities of cargo from daytime to nights and weekends, has come under no shortage of criticism in recent months.

A broad range of US shippers, truckers, and transportation intermediaries are asking federal maritime regulators to consider creating a rule to prevent marine terminals and container lines from charging demurrage and detention fees.

Consolidation of container lines could spur them to finally make a clean break from control of intermodal chassis.

Authorities have expanded a program designed to curb traffic and pollution in the Port of New York and New Jersey by awarding grants to the owners of older drayage trucks so that they can be replaced by newer vehicles.

Rep. Duncan Hunter views PierPass as a model for other ports' efforts to extend gate hours.

Cameron Roberts, partner at Roberts & Kehagiaras, offers ways drayage and trucking companies can protect themsleves from financial and legal exposure to Hanjin Shipping assets.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust shippers have shorter gate hours to drop off and pick up cargo.

The Port of Long Beach will chip away at the backlog of empty Hanjin Shipping-leased containers in Southern California that has built up since the container line declared bankruptcy on Aug. 31 when a ship calls to pick up some of the empties.

A New Jersey legislator said he will likely drop a plan to charge beneficial cargo owners a fee in an effort to cut drayage pollution at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

PierPass meeting with stakeholders could eventually result in a new pricing model for extended gates in LA-LB.

A federal judge on Tuesday allowed a chassis company to terminate leases with Hanjin Shipping.

DrayQ and DrayLink to be introduced in Seattle-Tacoma in early November to improve terminal efficiency for truckers and BCOs.

PierPass Inc. discusses possible changes in its model with port stakeholders in LA-LB.

FMC Chairman Mario Cordero expresses concern after receiving staff briefing on analysis of PierPass fee collections and disbursements.

Los Angeles and Long Beach have served as a laboratory for creative measures to cope with the growing container volumes and the surges of cargo from mega-ships that have also challenged other US ports.

A Long Beach container terminal's willingness to collect Hanjin Shipping containers only solves part of the problem.

Hanjin Shipping terminals in the United States will begin to accept empty Hanjin-owned containers.

Southern California’s landmark “pool of pools” in which three equipment providers share more than 72,000 inter-operable chassis could be improved.

The postponement is the latest road-bump to a somewhat controversial program aimed at smoothing the peaks and valleys of truck traffic flows.

Upward of 20,000 empty Hanjin containers remain scattered throughout Southern California with no place to go.

Nearly 10 percent of container traffic at the Northwest Seaport Alliance has migrated to off-peak hours since night gates began.

Drayage drivers serving the Port of Montreal can track terminal wait times via a new app.