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ATA Truck Tonnage Index slips 0.3% in September

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 0.3% in September 2009 after increasing 2.1% in both July and August. The latest decline lowered the SA index to 103.9 (2000=100)...

Port of Long Beach
official chastises
NRDC over criticism

The recent legal settlement between the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the Port of Long Beach is good news for clean air, Port of Long Beach Executive Director Richard Steinke said in a letter on the port’s website...

ATA, Port of Long Beach officials reach settlement

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) Executive Committee and the Port of Long Beach (CA) Harbor Commissioners have each approved a settlement negotiated between port officials and ATA and trucking industry representatives...

Buckeye Partners to acquire
assets from ConocoPhillips

Buckeye Partners LP has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips to purchase three refined-product storage and distribution terminals and two refined-product pipelines and associated storage tanks in the Chicago IL and St Louis MO areas...

Plains All American
Pipeline acquires
assets from Holly

Plains All American Pipeline LP has acquired certain pipelines, a manifold system, and about 400,000 barrels of crude oil storage capacity from Holly Corporation for $40 million...

ArcLight finishes acquisition of HFOTCO from Motiva

ArcLight Capital Partners LLC has closed on the acquisition of the remaining 50% membership interest in Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company LLC (HFOTCO) from Motiva Enterprises LLC. ArcLight acquired its initial 50% interest in HFOTCO in October 2007 from Chartco LLC...

Bio-Clean affiliate chosen for barge cleaning test

Bio-Clean International Inc’s affiliated entity, American Bio-Clean Corporation (ABC), has been selected by Custom Fuel Services, a unit of Ingram Barge Company, to formulate a specific-use, bio-remediation fluid...

Dupré Logistics expands into Birmingham AL area

Dupré Logistics LLC announced the expansion of its Energy Distribution Services group into the Birmingham AL market...

Biodiesel returns more energy than ever: study

Biodiesel is better than ever at harnessing the power of the sun and turning it into fuel...

NACD outlines concerns over chemical security bill

In preparation for a recent US House Energy and Environment Subcommittee markup of HR 2868, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act, the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) sent a letter to the full House Energy and Commerce Committee outlining several concerns about the bill...