The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) contains several provisions intended to improve the movement of freight throughout America over the next 30 years. These provisions will have significant impact on the nation’s interstate highway system, freight rail system, its ports and airports, and on the intermodal movement of freight across the country and around the world.
The Virginia Port Authority announced growth figures and highlighted growth at its Richmond terminal. There is an important opportunity for the Authority to be an integral player in supporting new investment in it's hinterland. Having an integrated port-economic development strategy is a huge advantage, especially if it's more than a superficial marketing effort.
A strategic partnership with the USC Marshall Center for Global Supply Chain Management aimed at improving the global competitiveness of the nation’s supply chains was signed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
The closest thing to a good old fashion bi-partisan infrastructure bill is about to go to the president. The bill, H.R. 5303, the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA), contains an inventory of Corps of Engineers projects and the continuation of an effort to the prioritizing harbor and inland waterway projects on the basis [...]
Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway will officially open service on Wednesday to become Africa's first electric railway. The 752-km railway links the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and the port of Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden country Djibouti. It will offer both passenger and freight services, although the operations will be freight-only at the outset.
In a recent Los Angeles Times article, “Robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers in the Next Decade” goes into some detail on what the motor carrier industry has been looking at for awhile-addressing the driver shortage through some level of automation.
In the course of our work, GLDpartners has amassed a compilation of industry intelligence on major sectors in the global economy. Over the next several months, we will be posting industry intelligence updates that seaports, airports, inland logistics centers and economic developers should find valuable as they work to understand how their customer base is changing. The first one up is the pharmaceutical industry.
GLDPartners is pleased to announce that Dale Miller has joined the firm to head its engineering/ infrastructure and development planning work
Well, to those that have suggested that Brexit is but a minor issue and that self-interest and common-sense geopolitics would yield little negative impact to the UK economy - someone should tell the UK automobile industry to not worry. And from what we've been hearing from non-automakers there is fairly widespread concern in the corporate community about potential impacts of Brexit to trade.
Amazon: Another Parcel Competitor? Today’s Wall Street Journal made “official” what logistics and supply chain professionals have known for some time-that Amazon is as much a logistics company as it is a retailer or a Cloud provider (Amazon Web Services) or an electronics designer (Amazon Kindle, Alexa, etc.).