File photo courtesy of ARTC. Relevant industries are now assessing their capacity to build the Inland Rail freight project, connecting Brisbane to Melbourne via regional south east Queensland, inland New South Wales and rural Victoria. ...
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Interim Victorian Transport Association (VTA) CEO Peter Anderson has urged political parties to ‘take the blinkers off” and look at the bigger picture rather than focusing on just one piece of the puzzle. Mr Anderson said the ...
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Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company, the industry’s leading manufacturer of refrigerated trailers, dry freight vans, and flatbed trailers, is pleased to announce its largest single trailer order purchased by Prime. Founded in 1970 ...
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The rains have been abundant in most of the cotton growing areas. However, in certain parts of Rajasthan and Haryana, there may have been some damages to the cotton crop, informs the latest fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton ...
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The Asian price spread between high density polyethylene and ethylene feedstock turned negative Thursday, September 25, falling to minus $5/mt from parity a day before, due to the bearish PE market amid continued firm ethylene, Platts data ...
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WASHINGTON, DC— There’s a new free, independent, online technology guide to help fleet owners double their fleet efficiency. The Carbon War Room, a non-profit firm owned by Sir Richard Branson, that aims to accelerate the ...
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WASHINGTON – The EPA today announced the 2014 winners of the coveted SmartWay Excellence Awards. The awards honor freight industry companies who model environmental leadership and innovation as they move goods across America. ...
WASHINGTON, DC— The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has shut down Florida-based trucking company, Ken’s Trucking after a federal inspection. The FMCSA declared the company an imminent hazard to public ...
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Rigid plastic producers Amcor Rigid Plastics will soon operate an on-site production facility within Method’s manufacturing facility in Chicago to produce 100% PCR polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. Method produces ...
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GREENWICH, CT— Freight transportation services provider XPO Logistics is looking to expand its business and a good portion of the $700 million invested is coming from some Canadians’ pension plans. The Public Sector Pension ...
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The Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) commented on Monday’s US International Trade Commission (ITC) hearing, the final phase of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey and ...
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Russian vertically integrated company Russian Railways (RZD), which manages infrastructure and operates freight and passenger train services, has reported that it has started to receive supplies of high-strength, one hundred meter-long ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the American Trucking Associations, Kimberly Clark and the entire trucking industry, is taking this week to honor the 3.1 million professional truck drivers that deliver ...
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Melbourne’s controversial new road proposal, the East-West Link, which the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects declared an ‘environmental disaster’, has received the backing of the Victorian truckers’ body ...
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The total cost of ground transportation for Canadian shippers dropped for the third month in a row, according to data from the Canadian General Freight Index. Ground transportation costs dropped 0.4 percent in April, dropped again by 1.2 ...
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