Drayage

A new bill introduced in the California legislature aims to spur the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex to revamp its PierPass system.

Software glitches continued to plague terminal gates at the Port of Charleston’s Wando Welch Marine Terminal Thursday.

Cooperation between truckers and terminal operators has improved truck turn times at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

Chennai Port has overcome much of its access problems that have contributed to long truck queues.

Coalition calls for the port authority to reinstate ban on trucks made before 2007.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust said unscheduled gate closings by private terminals in India’s busiest container harbor have added to congestion.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is intensely focusing on productivity improvements.

Gate automation at terminals in the Chennai Port will increase productivity.

Details were still scant Thursday as to the exact problem that occurred. The port authority had yet to respond to a JOC.com request for specifics.

The Port of Virginia has closed its Virginia International Gateway terminal to inbound truck traffic.

Motor carrier offers SOLAS-aimed weighing service, believed to be the first in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

India’s port regulator has tentatively allowed Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust to charge tolls for truck cargo, but the matter is not yet settled.

The Port of Oakland’s largest terminal operator is addressing looming congestion problems by preparing to charge a fee to support night gates.

Drayage companies that service the Port of New York and New Jersey are once again squaring off with the Teamsters union.

An inter-terminal truck transfer system at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has had success.

The Teamsters union is accelerating its efforts to organize harbor truck drivers in Southern California.

Truck turn times at the Port of Long Beach's newly automated Long Beach Container Terminal are half those at other terminals in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

Some truckers working at the Port of New York and New Jersey are turning away from the leasing system that dominates the industry.

With an average of 15 percent of chassis invoice charges inaccurate or subject to dispute, motor carriers that automate the reconciliation of invoices save thousands of dollars annually, according to a chassis billing specialist.

The government of India is looking to automate gate transactions at the country's major ports.

Although port authorities and trucking organizations in Oakland and Los Angeles-Long Beach have been leading the way in implementing global-positioning satellite and Bluetooth technologies to increase cargo velocity, ports and truckers on the East and Gulf coasts are anxious to follow. Technology products are expected to surface at other ports in short order.

The largest trade group representing drayage companies in the Port of New York and New Jersey has created its own web-based forum to connect truckers looking to make “street turns.”

One of the big three providers of U.S. marine chassis is being sold to a new owner.

Truck turn times at container terminals in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach got a bit longer last month, but still remain below what has been described as a new normal for the harbor trucking community.

California drayage companies are not rushing to take advantage of new legislation that could shield them from fines and penalties if they classify their independent contractor drivers as employees.

The California labor commissioner’s office has launched an amnesty program for trucking companies.

Container volumes have returned to pre-recession levels and carriers are deploying super-post-Panamax ships in the U.S. trades.

India shippers will have to pay more when their trucks get to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.

The Port of Oakland is doing its part to reduce truck congestion with a subsidy program.

DP World-operated Chennai Container Terminal said it has made significant progress in easing truck bottlenecks that have long plagued India’s second-largest public container gateway and busiest gateway on the east coast.

A mobile phone app developed by an Oakland trucker to make it easier to exchange empty equipment outside of the harbor can potentially reduce congestion at the port’s marine terminal gates, the designer of the product stated.

The onset of new resin production in the Gulf Coast region will be good news for Gulf Winds International. The Houston-based distribution company expects booming petrochemical plant construction in the region to lead to a surge in containerized exports and transloading.

Global Container Terminal on the Jersey City-Bayonne, N.J. border closed mid-morning Thursday and will stay closed throughout the day, after a tractor-trailer struck two people standing alongside a line of trucks, killing a driver and injuring a second man.

The visionary Global Trade and Logistics Complex that will revolutionize the transfer of cargo between vessels and truck and rail transportation on the West Coast is taking shape in the middle of the Port of Oakland.

Logistics providers out of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust are again reporting long truck lines and frequent gate closings at terminals in India’s busiest public container gateway, reminiscent of the gridlock in the second half of last year following labor disruptions that diverted some cargo to nearby private, or minor, ports.

Truck turn times in Los Angeles-Long Beach unexpectedly showed dramatic improvement in March, due to the seasonal drop in cargo volume that followed the Chinese New Year in Asia, but also because terminal operators in the largest U.S. port complex are working harder than ever to improve their gate operations.

International Longshoremen’s Association leader Dennis Daggett said the ILA isn’t to blame for delays in launching a universal port chassis pool at the Port of New York and New Jersey, and that intermodal equipment providers don’t seem committed to the idea.

A proposed universal chassis pool at the Port of New York and New Jersey is dead in the water, but chassis lessors haven’t given up on the idea, an executive at one of the leasing companies told truckers Thursday.

The Port of Oakland is using two smartphone applications to improve trucker turn times and address the long visit times at marine terminals that are the bane of harbor trucking companies at many U.S. ports.

Intermodal equipment providers are in the early stages of using GPS technology to track their chassis in seaport and inland locations, and if the return on investment is adequate, IEPs anticipate greater use of the technology.