Administrator Regan Leads OECD Meeting on Climate, Environmental Justice, Plastics
Clearing congestion key to lower ocean rates: McKinsey
[caption caption="Clearing out landside congestion will be key to increasing effective ship supply, McKinsey said. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]Ongoing uncertainty about the direction of ocean freight rates means shippers will have to be creative and flexible in how they contract for vessel capacity this year, McKinsey & Co. said in a...
Clearing congestion key to lower ocean rates: McKinsey
[caption caption="Clearing out landside congestion will be key to increasing effective ship supply, McKinsey said. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]Ongoing uncertainty about the direction of ocean freight rates means shippers will have to be creative and flexible in how they contract for vessel capacity this year, McKinsey & Co. said in a...
TR News 336 November-December 2021
The November-December 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on collaboration and innovation at the MnROAD Research Facility—is available in full online. Other feature articles in the issue include Airport Cooperative Research Program guidance on best design practices for service animal relief areas, worship spaces, lactation areas, and more; developing the transportation workforce; and infrastructure preservation and renewal. This is Issue 336. To subscribe to TR News, sign up through MyTRB.org. Su...
USDA to Provide Payments to Livestock Producers Impacted by Drought or Wildfire
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2022 – The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that ranchers who have approved applications through the 2021 Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) for forage losses due to severe drought or wildfire in 2021 will soon begin receiving emergency relief payments for increases in supplemental feed costs in 2021 through the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) new Emergency Livestock Relief Program (ELRP).
Outcome of West Coast labor talks seen as a ‘coin toss’
[caption caption="Uncertainty over West Coast labor talks has been too much for many shippers who have already endured historically lengthy port delays for over a year and are now actively diverting cargo to East Coast ports such as New York-New Jersey (above). Photo credit: Shutterstock.com."][/caption]When Pacific Maritime Association President James...