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Driver hours-of-service rules are being relaxed in 26 states and the District of Columbia under a state of emergency announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on August 31. The declaration is in response to “fuel shortages due to refinery delays and interruption of delivery through pipelines as a...

As Hurricane Harvey recedes, truck rates will only rise, not just in Texas but nationwide, thanks to the Gulf Coast storm. The question is, by how much? Perhaps in the high single digits, an industry pricing expert said.  “It will be somewhere in the 8 to 10 percent range, but...

Flood waters in Mumbai are reportedly receding, but delays plague the airport and sea terminals as another global supply chain hub succumbs to incremental weather. Reporting its heaviest rainfall in more than a decade, India’s second-largest city joins Hong Kong and Houston, both hit by severe storms in the last...

Port Houston will reopen its terminals for business on Sept. 1, Port Commission Chairman Janiece Longoria announced at an evening press conference Aug. 31. The Barbours Cut Terminal, Bayport Container Terminal and Turning Basin Terminal will be open for truck operations from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 1. “Although...

It goes without saying that that tragic events and circumstances related to Tropical Storm Harvey are unprecedented in many ways, based on the extent of current damage and, sadly, a number of lost lives, as well as various forecasts and experts expecting things to worsen before they get better. And...

Logistics impacts from flooding in Houston and other parts of southeast Texas continue to spread as shippers and transportation providers cope with a regional interruption in port, truck, rail, and air freight shipment.   Port Houston said its terminals, which shut at mid-day last Friday in advance of Hurricane Harvey, will...

Trucking fleets, railroads and shipping lines are rerouting cargo and setting up alternate supply lines as Tropical Storm Harvey promises to disrupt freight traffic across southeast Texas for days. Seaports in Houston and Corpus Christi have been closed to most ships since before Harvey made landfall Friday, and rising waters...

The penalty for leaving containers in yards past free time at Bangladesh’s Chittagong Port has been doubled to US$12 per TEU per day and $24 per FEU, in a bid to ease congestion. Previously, the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) allowed importers to store containers free of charge for four days...

Workers at one of Indonesia’s busiest ports ended their strike on Monday, sooner than planned, out of consideration for “national interests”, the chairman of the labour union said. More than 600 workers at PT Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) had been on strike since Thursday to demand bonus payments, disrupting...

Trucker frustration is building after hundreds of drivers waited in line — some for six hours or more — at APM Terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey, as the facility still recovering from a cyber attack on its parent company, Maersk Group, got hit with higher than usual...