TEPPCO acquires vessels
from TransMontaigne

TEPPCO Partners LP has purchased marine assets, including 19 boats and 28 barges, from TransMontaigne Product Services Inc for all cash consideration of $50 million...

NACD hails ruling affirming
railroad’s hazmat obligation

In response to the recent decision by the Surface Transportation Board (STB) that the Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) has an obligation to provide rates and service to US Magnesium LLC (USM) of Utah to transport chlorine to destinations in Louisiana and Texas, the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) issued...

Diesel fuel’s price rises
for six weeks in a row

The average price of diesel fuel nationwide surged 7.4 cents to $2.572 a gallon. This marks the sixth consecutive weekly increase, the Department of Energy said. In the past five weeks, the price has risen more than 30 cents...

Combustion Safety offers
Twitter service for users

Combustion Safety Inc is now providing Twitter service to keep users informed about important safety and risk events occurring throughout the world...

NACD, ACC sign cooperation agreement

The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) have signed an agreement to closely cooperate in the promotion and performance of their respective environmental, health, safety, and security (EHS&S) initiatives: Responsible Distribution Process (RDP) and Responsible Care...

Schneider National expands
fuel-hauling service capabilities

Schneider National Inc is quickly becoming a “go-to” carrier for fuel customers. Since launching the new service in 2008, Schneider has expanded its fleet capacity and extended its service area to include additional locations throughout the Midwest, Southeast, and the southern coast, and is considering additional expansion in the Northeast in the near future...

ATA unveils 18 initiatives
for greater highway safety

American Trucking Associations (ATA) unveiled its new highway safety agenda at a Capitol Hill press conference...

AgTEC offers studies backing
truck weight limit increase

The Agricultural Transportation Efficiency Coalition (AgTEC), which supports increasing the overall gross vehicle weight limits for trucks, has analyzed and made available 11 independent studies. These studies affirm the safety and economic benefits of bringing US truck weight limits closer to Canadian and European standards, and quantify the relationship between truck weights and road and bridge wear. Government agencies conducted or endorsed each study...

ArvinMeritor participates
in hybrid truck convoy

ArvinMeritor Inc participated in a June 11 hybrid truck convoy to Capitol Hill, sponsored by Hybrid Truck Users Forum (HTUF) and CALSTART. The event included a briefing and multiple vehicle display at the Capitol Reflecting Pool in Washington DC...

Biodiesel board voices
RFS-2 proposal concerns

Manning Feraci, the vice president of federal affairs for the National Biodiesel Board, voiced the US biodiesel industry’s concern with the proposed RFS-2 rule at a public hearing hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

Cap-and-trade program
will harm trucking: ATA

The American Trucking Associations (ATA) told a congressional committee that a cap-and-trade program would impose significant costs on truckers and American consumers...

TMW enhances TruckMate 2009

TMW Systems Inc announced the release of TruckMate 2009, a milestone upgrade for the operations system...

Beall Corporation chooses Haldex TRS

Haldex Commercial Vehicle Systems announces that Beall Corporation has selected Haldex Trailer Roll Stability (TRS) as a standard product offering beginning July 1, 2009...

Coalition presses Congress
to raise vehicle weight limit

More than 100 associations and companies—including Coca-Cola, Kraft, and MillerCoors—officially launched the Coalition for Transportation Productivity (CTP), urging Congress to responsibly raise the federal vehicle weight limit on US Interstate highways...

Price of diesel fuel
surges nationwide

The average price of diesel fuel nationwide shot up 14.6 cents to $2.498 a gallon. This marks the fifth consecutive weekly gain and the largest single-week climb in more than a year. Over the past four weeks, the price has risen 23.5 cents, according to Department of Energy information...

Obama to nominate three
for key administration posts

President Barack Obama plans to nominate these individuals for administration posts: Anne S Ferro, administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; Ernie DuBester, member, Federal Labor Relations Authority; and Julia A Clark, general counsel, Federal Labor Relations Authority...

SGLP enters into asphalt
storage contracts, leases

SemGroup Energy Partners LP (SGLP) has completed the execution of additional asphalt storage contracts or leases related to its asphalt facilities with various counterparties...

Flint Hills Resources plans
to build new fuel terminal

Flint Hills Resources LP, which currently distributes fuels via terminals in Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Bastrop, Austin, Fort Worth, and Waco TX, will build a new fuel terminal in Caldwell County to serve central Texas...

‘Wetline’ issue returns;
industry action needed now

Congress is in the final stages of writing legislation that could ban so-called “wetlines” on petroleum trailers used to haul flammable materials...

Aegean acquires
double-hull barge

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc announced that, through a company affiliate, it has taken delivery of the ITB Provider, a 2001-built, 2,315-metric-tonne double-hull barge to be renamed PT 22, from an unrelated third party...

Vitol opens second
phase of expansion

Vitol Tank Terminals International (VTTI) officially opened the second phase of an expansion of the Euro Tank terminal in Rotterdam, Netherlands, at a ceremony May 28, 2009. This expansion was completed on time and within budget, with first product received at the end of 2008...

ATA Truck Tonnage
Index falls in April

The American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 2.2 percent in April 2009 after plunging 4.5 percent in March. April marked the second sequential decrease...

World containership fleet
poised for upturn: report

Despite the current overcapacity of tonnage and disastrous shipping rates, the world containership fleet is expected to continue its rapid growth curve, albeit at a slightly reduced rate, as deliveries are taken from shipyards and new shipbuilding orders start to pick up later this year...

Price of diesel fuel
continues upward

The average price of diesel fuel nationwide increased for a fourth straight week, rising 7.8 cents from a week ago to $2.352 a gallon—its highest level in 2009—according to Department of Energy information...

OPF Fluid Transfer Group
reorganizes its operations

OPW Fluid Transfer Group has made several strategic organizational changes. The company will streamline OPW’s four business units and eight global operations into two global business units. These two units are...