In a separate statement Wednesday, the ILA said Trump’s support was key to securing a new contract. The union also revealed for the first time that when Daggett and his son, Dennis Daggett, also a union official, met with Trump at Mar-a-lago in December, the President-elect spoke by phone with USMX officials to express his support for the ILA.

2025年1月6日 · The company said it implemented an additional $20 million in cost saving initiatives during the fourth quarter by reducing head count, consolidating operations at terminals and limiting its use of third-party providers.

2025年1月9日 · A tentative East and Gulf Coast port labor contract is expected to have a calming effect on container shipping rates, but an array of other, still-unresolved, issues warrant caution throughout the supply chain. “The agreement between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) must be welcomed because a strike had the potential to be a ...

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2025年1月3日 · In October 2024, U.S. East and Gulf Coast port workers went on strike. The strike ended after three days with both parties agreeing to go back to the negotiation table and extending the master agreement till Jan 15. Well, that agreement still has not been reached, and at the end of 2024 talks got rocky over the issue of automation.

2025年1月2日 · A slowdown in trucking M&A was met by interest rate cuts for the first time in more than four years in 2024. The anticipation of lower lending rates fostered more constructive transaction dialogues during the year, but deal count across the industry was still off 5% from 2023, according to data compiled by the research team at Left Lane Associates.

2025年1月1日 · The resumption of bargaining comes just days after liner operators including Hapag-Lloyd announced container surcharges due to take effect in the event of a strike, and several weeks after President-elect Donald Trump backed the union following a meeting with ILA President Harold Daggett and his son, Executive Vice …

2024年12月26日 · Trump earlier this month publicly backed the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) in its contract dispute with port employers represented by the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX).. After bargaining resumed following a three-day strike in October, the union broke off negotiations in November, charging ocean carriers and terminal operators were trying to eliminate union jobs by ...

2024年12月20日 · “We’ve got a situation where hundreds of millions of dollars of freight is being stolen by fraudulent companies in the trucking market, the [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] is telling us that truck crashes are up 10%, a majority of the trucks on the road go without a [safety] rating — it’s a complete failure by the FMCSA when it …

A family-owned Missouri trucking company with 265 trucks and 255 drivers recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Founded in 1983 by Randall Walker, RBX Inc. of Strafford, Missouri, hauls general freight, beverages and paper products, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s SAFER website. The …