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#1 Mayday Call From Burning Cargo Ship Prompted Doomed Rescue Effort

Jan 17 2024 // The Grande Costa D’Avorio cargo ship was being loaded with 1,200 West Africa-bound cars at Port Newark last July when a deadly fire began. Dense black smoke limited visibility to about 3 feet, and the floor was so...

#2 Freight Railroads Ask Courts to Throw Out Rule Requiring Two-Person Crews on Trains

Apr 17 2024 // Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in most circumstances, saying the mandate is arbitrary, capricious and an illegal abuse of discretion.The...

#3 Freight Railroads Must Keep 2-Person Crews Under New Federal Rule

Apr 4 2024 // Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized Tuesday in a milestone in organized labor’s long fight to preserve the practice.The...

#4 Baltimore Port Closure Sends Companies Scrambling to Reroute Cargo

Apr 1 2024 // The stunning collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is diverting shipping and trucking around one of the busiest ports on America’s East Coast, creating delays and raising costs in the latest...

#5 Thailand Races to Stop Toxic Waste Cargo on MSC, Maersk Ships

Aug 13 2024 // Thai authorities are racing to stop about 100 shipping containers allegedly filled with hazardous industrial waste from Albania reaching the nation’s ports.Basel Action Network, a US-based nonprofit that tracks toxic...

#6 Witness Testifies on Seeking Sen. Menendez’s Help on Insurance, Trucking Probes

Jun 10 2024 // A New Jersey businessman took his star turn on the witness stand in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez on Friday, telling a jury he believed he had a $200,000-to-$250,000 deal in 2018 for the Democrat to pressure...

#7 Cargo Owners in Baltimore Disaster Face ‘General Average’ Loss Sharing, MSC Says

Apr 15 2024 // The owner of the ship that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge has started a formal process in which companies that own goods on the stricken Dali will have to share some of the financial losses, according...

#8 Trump Tariffs Could Intensify US Trucking Industry Slump, Experts Say

Dec 16 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on top trade partners China, Mexico and Canada would deal a blow to the $1.7 trillion U.S. transportation industry and worsen a nearly three-year trucking recession,...

#9 Worker Tells of Fleeing Burning Jeep on Cargo Ship Where 2 Firefighters Died

Jan 12 2024 // Gaven Puchinsky had been pushing vehicles onto a huge cargo ship in one of the nation’s busiest seaports when he heard a loud “clunking” noise that he believed came from the yellow Jeep Wrangler he was...

#10 Mega Trucking and Prime Insurance Company Partner to Fight and Win Frivolous Litigation

Mar 11 2024 // SALT LAKE CITY, UT., March 11, 2024 — Rick J. Lindsey, President and CEO of Prime Insurance Company, a specialty insurance carrier, announced today that the company partnered with Mega Trucking to fight and win frivolous...

#11 New Hampshire Weighs Suspension of Trucker Found Not Guilty in Deadly Crash

Jun 25 2024 // Days before the five-year anniversary of a crash that killed seven motorcyclists, relatives and friends urged New Hampshire officials not to allow the trucker involved back on the state’s roadways.A jury in 2022...

#12 Russian Oil Finds New Site for Controversial Cargo Switching

Jun 4 2024 // Under pressure from Greece’s navy, traders of Russian oil have found a new place to switch cargoes of crude in the Mediterranean sea, a sign of how hard it will be to clamp down on an activity that has alarmed...

#13 Newark Wants Cargo Ship Firefighters’ Deaths Handled Under Workers’ Compensation

May 2 2024 // The city of Newark is asking a federal court to dismiss negligence and wrongful death claims against it by the families of two firefighters who died last July while battling a fire on a cargo ship,The city maintains that...

#14 Update: Baltimore Ship Accident Has East Coast Ports Scrambling to Absorb Cargo

Apr 1 2024 // US East Coast ports are modifying their operations to absorb cargo diverted from Baltimore harbor, where salvage specialists are starting to clear debris from the destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge and authorities are...

#15 West Texas Truckers Protest Low Wages, Working Conditions

Jul 3 2024 // MONAHANS — Low wages and working conditions that truck drivers describe as degrading have sparked an organized labor movement in the Permian Basin, a historic first for the nation’s busiest oil field.About a dozen...

#16 Cargo Carriers Fear Port Strike Will Paralyze Half of US Trade

Sep 30 2024 // The world’s top container carrier is urging customers to move US cargo through East and Gulf Coast ports before the planned start on Tuesday of a dockworker strike that threatens to paralyze as much as half the...

#17 Trucking Firm Owner Sentenced Over Crash That Killed 7 Bikers

Nov 25 2024 // The owner of a trucking company was sentenced Thursday to two months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for lying to investigators after one of his trucks was accused of causing a crash that killed seven...

#18 New Hampshire Won’t Reinstate License of Trucker Acquitted in Deadly Crash

Jun 4 2024 // New Hampshire safety officials last Thursday upheld the license suspension of a commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists but said another hearing will be held to determine how...

#19 Dali Cargo Ship Leaves Baltimore for Virginia, Nearly 3 Months After Bridge Collapse

Jun 26 2024 // The cargo ship Dali headed out of Baltimore for Virginia on Monday, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to...

#20 Why the Canadian Freight Rail Halt Will Roil North American Supply Chains

Aug 22 2024 // Canada’s two main freight rail companies locked out around 10,000 of their Canadian unionized workers early on Thursday, starting an unprecedented simultaneous work stoppage that will grind almost all railway freight...