Category: Impact & Regulations

December 12, 2023

Washington, D.C. based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), a trade association representing the U.S. transportation construction industry, recently released a market outlook report on transportation construction activity in 2024. The largest transportation market sector, public highway, pavement, and […]

December 11, 2023

As trucking firms seek to move past sluggish conditions, the market continues to claw at loan repayments and carriers’ ability to survive. The failure of Citizens Bank, Sac City, in Iowa last month and credit risks with some banks’ portfolios […]

December 8, 2023

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed requiring repair stations outside of the U.S. to test employees who work on certain aircraft to undergo drug and alcohol testing in order to retain their certification. On Wednesday, the FAA said the […]

December 7, 2023

The pandemic changed the total number of port-pair connections on the Europe-North America East Coast (NAEC) trade, according to Sea-Intelligence report. In the first half of 2019, the total number of port-pair connections was relatively stable, hovering within 600-800 connections. […]

December 4, 2023

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced more than $220 million in grants to modernize American ferry systems. Part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure law, the program focuses on expanding ferry service in rural communities, helping […]

December 4, 2023

The U.S. Department of Transportation will be awarding $1.5 billion in the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grants for 2024. The RAISE program helps project sponsors complete critical freight and passenger transportation infrastructure projects. The agency will […]

December 1, 2023

The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of major global shipping lines have issued a joint declaration at COP 28 calling for an end date for fossil-only powered newbuilds and urging the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to create the regulatory conditions to […]

November 29, 2023

Initially, the FHWA proposed stronger standards last year for its framework. The final rule’s modifications came a year later after nearly 40,000 public comments. The agency originally called for requiring state emission reductions targets every two years. State transportation departments […]

November 29, 2023

General Motors announced hefty new initiatives Wednesday to return billions of dollars to shareholders, lifting its stock price as it estimated the recent labor strike hit at $1.1 billion. The automaker lost about 95,000 vehicles in 2023 due to the […]

November 17, 2023

Ships in European Union seas could face significant fines not only for oil spills, but also for sewage and garbage discharge, transport and tourism committee MEPs said yesterday. On Thursday, the committee voted to update EU rules on preventing pollution […]

November 16, 2023

When purchasing a smartphone, one of your primary considerations is typically finding a durable case and a screen protector to safeguard the device from external harm. Similarly, a group of researchers from POSTECH has recently garnered attention in the academic […]

November 14, 2023

Pilots at Air Transport International, a cargo airline owned by Air Transport Services Group that provides airlift to Amazon and DHL Express, have authorized union leaders to call a strike over stalled labor talks once such action becomes permissible under […]

November 10, 2023

Bipartisan lawmakers have introduced a bill that would give America’s 2.19 million truck drivers the right to overtime pay. A 1938 law guaranteed most American workers minimum wage and time-and-a-half pay if they worked more than 40 hours in one […]

November 9, 2023

Red tape, over-regulation, spiraling costs and a vacuum of government policy are putting significant pressure on the general aviation sector in Australia, according to a survey of industry chiefs. Aging infrastructure, thin profit margins and conflicts over airspace allocation are […]

November 3, 2023

The innovation hubs of the Port of Hamburg (homePORT), the Port of Halifax (The PIER), and the Port of Valencia (Opentop) announced on 26 October that they have begun work on the design and implementation of the first network of […]

October 30, 2023

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) said it was accepting applications for $40 million in grants to support connected vehicle technologies. The grants, part of the Saving Lives with Connectivity: Accelerating V2X Deployment program, will […]

October 27, 2023

Ford on Thursday said the need to retore manufacturing operations outweighed the additional costs to sweeten a labor contract to end a strike that has cost it some $1.3 billion. “The important thing for us was to get back to […]

October 25, 2023

Congestion cost trucking companies a record $94.6 billion in 2021, according to a new study published by the American Transportation Research Institute, with Nevada, Louisiana, Georgia and California seeing the biggest rate increases from a 2016 baseline. “Whether it is […]

October 20, 2023

With drugs flowing through the continent’s ports in vast quantities, the European Commission has decided to create the European Ports Alliance bringing together all relevant public and private actors in the fight against drugs smuggling and criminal infiltration of logistics […]

October 13, 2023

High diesel prices amid sluggish spot rates in September pushed Pomona, California-based trucker Khalid Masri and his small business, KM Global Trans, to stop running two of his four trucks. West Coast on-highway diesel prices have soared in recent months, […]