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NACD praises senators
for chemical security bill

The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) commends the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for their introduction of common-sense chemical security legislation...

ATA endorses Vigillo’s
CSA 2010 Scorecard

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) has announced its endorsement of Vigillo LLC’s Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) 2010 Scorecard as an effective program to help large and small trucking companies manage their responsibilities under the current CSA 2010 regulations...

US freight railroads face
obstacles threatening
ability to aid recovery

Edward R Hamberger, Association of American Railroads president and chief executive officer, said freight railroads are at a critical point in their history as the industry is facing new challenges from overburdensome federal regulatory mandates that could seriously undercut the industry’s ability to aid in US economic recovery...

Entrepreneurial
pioneer John Ruan dies

John Ruan, founder of Ruan Transportation Management Systems, died February 13, 2010. He was 96. Born Feb 11, 1914, Ruan began a company in 1932 with only one truck and grew it into Ruan Transportation Management Systems, now one of the nation’s largest transportation management companies...

Fuel operations resume
at Haiti’s Terminal Varreux

WIN Group, the Haitian enterprise that owns and operates Terminal Varreux in Port-au-Prince, and SEACOR Holdings Inc announced that emergency repairs have enabled crucial tanker shipments of fuel to resume to Haiti...

USDG begins constructing
rail terminal to handle oil

US Development Group LLC (USDG), a Houston TX-based developer of logistics and terminal facilities, announced that construction has begun on its new St James Rail Terminal, a crude oil and condensate unit train handling and distribution hub in the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana. The St James facility is US Development Group’s first crude oil/condensate terminal in a planned nationwide network of such terminals...

ACT continues to forecast
stronger second half, 2011

Trends in the economy and transportation sector continue to point to strengthening in the truck transportation sector in the second half of 2010, which will then lead to stronger demand for commercial vehicles late in the year and into 2011, according to ACT Research Co...

Rail carload traffic remains
down in January, AAR says

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported US carloads for January 2010 were down 0.7% at 1,056,684 carloads, compared with the same month in 2009, and down 17.7% versus 2008. The Rail Time Indicators report, available at www.aar.org, comprises monthly rail traffic data framed with other key economic indicators to show how freight rail is tied to the broader US economy...

Dedicated Transport Holdings
acquires All Star Transportation

Dedicated Transport Holdings LLC, a privately held company headquartered in Cleveland OH, announced the acquisition of All Star Transportation Inc, located in Clearwater FL and New Castle DE...

Blackwater Midstream
to acquire terminal facility

Blackwater Midstream Corp has entered into a letter of intent to acquire a liquid terminal facility in Brunswick GA for $1.8 million. The acquisition is expected to be completed within the first quarter of 2010...