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Baltimore Port Reopening: Implications and Strategic Adjustments

TransAudit

Impact on Local and Global Trade The closure had immediate and profound effects on cargo volumes, particularly impacting container, roll-on/roll-off, and bulk traffic. The Maryland Port Authority (MPA) efficiently distributed state aid to support port workers, ensuring they were ready to handle the expected surge in activity.

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Rwanda Heads Technology Revolution in Africa

The Network Effect

It’s small (about the size of Maryland), landlocked, and mountainous. Not the Zip… “The Zip looks more like a plane, and it’s launched with a slingshot, delivering its cargo with a parachute before returning home. Rwanda is at a distinct disadvantage. There’s not much in the way of natural resources.

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The Legal Implications of Transport Visibility is NOT Good News for Truckers

NC State SCRC

Maryland has a cap on non-economic damages, but is one of very few states with a cap. To keep yourself in business, there are plaintiffs attorneys that are finding out what transportation is doing, and trying to find the big deep pockets to pay damages like the $281M damage awarded in Texas – because the smaller carrier won’t be able to pay.”

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

state of Maryland with 30,528 sq km of area. Typical manufacturing products made in Belgium include engineering and metal products, automobile assemblies, transportation equipment, scientific and precision instruments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, glass, petroleum and food and beverages. Manufacturing in Belgium.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long million vehicles cross the bridge annually, or about 30,000 per day, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation.

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The Tesla Semi Truck Will Change Freight

Freightos

It’s tangible evidence of Elon Musk, the brains behind PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and more, transportation infrastructure play, with the power to disrupt both domestic trucking and international freight. And the case for overhauling urban transport goes without saying. But Tesla’s Semi Truck launch on November 16′ is bigger.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

Cargo begins clogging Port of Los Angeles amid railroad worker shortage. As a result, cargo is clogging the ports of Los Angeles amid a railroad worker shortage. These vehicles account for a large share of transportation-related emissions, but have not received as much regulatory attention as passenger cars.