Floating Freight Barge Train Rail Line-New York New Jersey Rail-65th Street Rail New York City plans to overhaul its ageing freight distribution systems through strategic investments to modernize maritime and rail assets and create new distribution facilities. Freight NYC is a $100-million plan with the ultimate goals of creating nearly 5,000
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UPS connecting merchants, warehouses
Ware2Go also provides inventory visibility and tracks orders. UPS has rolled out a technology company and platform called Ware2Go that’s designed to connect merchants with available warehousing capacity. Ware2Go also provides inventory visibility and tracks order progress for both the merchant and warehouse. Ware2Go officially launched in July after an incubation process with
Delta Cargo launches self-service e-AWB kiosks
Today Delta Cargo debuted its new self-service kiosks, operational in Atlanta and Boston, for use of electronic air waybills (e-AWBs) for its domestic network. This marks another step in the carrier’s path toward digitalization, following the company’s launch earlier this month to allow access to its full suite of services online, which include
Panalpina warns of potential ground-handling gridlock during peak
While most of the focus in previous peak air cargo seasons was based on finding enough capacity before the busy end-of-year shopping spree, Panalpina said there is another threat lurking this fall at overcrowded cargo-hub airports. After reporting the handling of just under 1 million tonnes of airfreight in 2017, a
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Nigeria: Importers, Agents Groan Under 400% Hike in Cost of Container Haulage
Since the past 43 years when the Apapa port's access roads were constructed, the nation has never had it this bad. From a million potholes to the death traps, loss of multi-billion naira goods, dirty and polluted environment, yet relief appears still farther than expected. SULAIMON SALAU reports that the
The Malay Connection: Is Kuala Lumpur the next e-commerce gateway to China?
At an abandoned house on the outskirts of Georgetown in the Malaysian State of Penang, a man and his wife stand crouched over a box of seemingly random electronic components. Inside the carton is a set of specialized audio “tweeters” the pair plans to install throughout their dilapidated ancestral home
Uber turning off autonomous truck division
A spokesperson told American Shipper the move will not affect Uber Freight, the company’s on-demand trucking unit. Uber Technologies Inc. will shut down its autonomous trucking research unit in an effort to focus on its separate self-driving car division, a company spokesperson has confirmed. The spokesperson for the ride-sharing application provider told American Shipper the move
IAG Cargo Q2 financial results show marginal growth
United Kingdom-based IAG Cargo today, released its financial results for Q2 2018, cargo revenue increased 3.7 percent to €281 million during the three-month period. Revenue growth outpaced cargo volume growth, increasing 0.4 percent year-over-year in Q2, to 1,414 tonnes – symptomatic of the carrier’s strength in 2017, which has made for
Truck owners demand compensation over Apapa gridlock
Lagos - Truck owners plying the access roads along Lagos ports have said that they deserve to be compensated for the number of days their trucks spend in queuing in the persistent traffic gridlock while trying to gain entry into the ports. The Chairman, Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, Haulage Section, Tin