A strike at India’s ports that further threatened the global supply chain was called off Tuesday after workers agreed to a new five-year contract. The indefinite walkout by almost 20,000 workers across India’s biggest ports was scheduled for Wednesday. Unions, which had first demanded a pay raise of around 10.6%, agreed to an increase of…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $102 million to build an electric truck freight corridor along the U.S. West Coast. The West Coast Truck Charging and Fueling Corridor Project, managed by the California Department of Transportation, will deploy charging and hydrogen fueling stations for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks along 2,500 miles…
As nearshoring increases the volume of products carried across the U.S. border, seizures of illegal narcotics from freight are also on the rise. Roughly 1,100 U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Laredo Port of Entry process 8,000 to 10,000 trucks daily to combat the influx of contraband. Port Director Albert Flores has over…
A former Missouri mayor and fleet dispatcher was sentenced to federal prison for a scheme in which he stole nearly $300,000 from more than 500 truck drivers who worked for his employer. Corey Louis Hendrickson, 46, a former mayor and alderman of Willard, a small city that is part of the Springfield metro area, was…
Ports in Houston and New Orleans recorded slight drops in container movements in July, while shipments of crude oil boosted freight flows at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas. Port Houston July cargo movements impacted by Hurricane Beryl, global system outage Port Houston’s container volume dipped 5% year over year in July to 325,277 twenty-foot…