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Technology is key to Longshoremen dispute
SEATTLE -- Technology has been marching into West Coast ports at a much slower pace than in the rest of the world, and now it is driving the ports' biggest labor dispute in 30 years, the Seattle Times reported. Engineers who design ports to improve efficiency say West...
First meeting with Mediator is held in port dispute
SAN FRANCISCO -- The longshoremen's union and port operators held their first talks with a federal mediator today as more businesses complained of economic damage from a labor dispute that has shut 29 West Coast ports, the New York Times reported. The two sides said...
Congress should stop playing politics with bus security
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following statement was issued today by Sonny Hall, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, in the wake of the Senate blocking consideration of an over-the-road bus security bill. "I am stunned and appalled to hear that the...
Negotiations to begin for National Master Freight Agreement
WASHINGTON -- Negotiations for the 2003 National Master Freight Agreement (NMFA) will get underway as the Teamsters and the member companies of TMI, a division of the Motor Freight Carriers Association (MFCA) will exchange bargaining goals. The event will take place...
B.C. Rail faces uncertain future
FORT ST. JAMES -- Fort St. James mayor Jim Togyi expects the B.C. Liberal government to keep its promise not to sell or privatize B.C. Rail, the Prince George Citizen reported. But he's not particularly worried about the future of rail service to the northern B.C....
Pa. rail project gets $1 million federal grant
LANCASTER, Pa. -- The federal government has awarded $1 million for a preliminary engineering study for a long-range, multi-million dollar commuter rail system linking Lancaster, Cumberland and Dauphin counties, the Lancaster New Era reported. Officials from the...
Amtrak may leave Dunsmuir out in the cold
DUNSMUIR, Calif. -- Amtrak may soon croon a swan song on the Dunsmuir platform, and that has city officials singing the blues, the Sacramento Bee reported. The company has told the historic railroad town to provide a heated depot -- with bathroom facilities -- by Dec....
Rail freight traffic up in September, third quarter
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. rail intermodal traffic rose 7.0 percent (50,974 trailers and containers) in September and 7.7 percent (176,909 units) in the third quarter of 2002 compared to 2001, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported on its website....
Canada to take load off trucks
MONTREAL -- The federal government wants to pull more trade goods off trucks and put it onto trains and boats to meet Canada's commitments to the Kyoto Treaty on Climate Change, the Montreal Gazette reported. But some of Canada's biggest industrial shippers are...
Collenette defends truck plan
OTTAWA -- Transport Minister David Collenette says a bid to move more goods by rail or sea routes to avoid highway congestion is not an anti-trucking measure, the Toronto Star reported. Instead, he said, it can be seen by trucking companies as an economic opportunity...
