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Power index: Top 10 Biden appointments affecting freight markets Leaders from across the administration connect supply chain links Top 10 picks influence rail, ocean, highway freight. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves & The White House) While almost every cabinet department and a host of federal agencies within the executive branch touch freight and supply chains in some way, these 10 recent appointees by President Joe Biden will likely figure most prominently in steering freight transportation policy as Biden’s administration gets underway. The list is in alphabetical order by last na...

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By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Federal Maritime Commissioners Carl Bentzel and Daniel Maffei have written to US president Joe Biden urging his new administration to classify the country’s dockers and maritime workforce as essential workers, and expedite a vaccination programme across the workforce. Coronavirus cases among UK dockworkers have soared in recent weeks. The letter was delivered as it was revealed that nearly 2,000 US dockworkers have tested positive for Covid-19. The International Longshoreman’s Association, covering the east and Gulf coasts, has recorded 784 posi...

Agricultural shippers that rely on a steady supply of empty cargo containers have seen orders for hundreds of millions of dollars delayed or outright canceled by shippers. Because of demand for Chinese products, shippers would rather deliver empty containers back to China where they are quickly loaded with more profitable cargo to send back to the U.S.

Shipping carriers rejected tons of U.S. agricultural exports, opting to send empty containers to China Shipping carriers rejected U.S. agricultural export containers worth hundreds of millions of dollars during October and November, instead sending empty containers to China to be filled with more profitable Chinese exports, a CNBC investigation found. The Federal Maritime Commission has received petitions from U.S. agricultural exporters warning that the delays in trade not only threaten profits but the reputation of the industry. The commission, in turn, launched an investigation and is revi...