All posts tagged: freight

Points failure shifted Northern passenger service into path of freight train

Points failure shifted Northern passenger service into path of freight train

Published by Sam Flores

A passenger train was mistakenly directed into the path of a freight train, days after a fatal crash near Bedford on the same railway line. A points failure in Derbyshire directed the Northern passenger service from Nottingham to Leeds to travel head-on towards a cargo train on Monday afternoon. Disaster was averted when the Northern train’s driver braked to a standstill almost immediately after starting to move onto the track where the freight train, travelling from Leeds to Southampton, was stationary. The driver’s quick-thinking meant there were no injuries and the train stopped before coming close to the freight train. The incident on the Midlands Main Line occurred three days after a Luton Airport Express train crashed into the back of a stationary East Midlands Railway service on the same line on Friday evening. Shaun Burton, the 60-year-old driver of the Luton Airport Express, died and more than 100 people were injured – nine of them critically – in the incident, which Network Rail had insisted was “isolated”. Monday’s incident occurred near the Clay Cross …

FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses

FedEx, UPS Slide After Amazon Opens Freight Network To All Businesses

Published by Jenni Sidey

Shares of transportation and logistics giants FedEx and UPS dropped in premarket trading after Amazon debuted Amazon Supply Chain Services, opening its freight network to sellers far beyond the Amazon marketplace. Amazon said ASCS is a move to “open its freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes.” It gives companies outside the Amazon marketplace access to a global delivery network with two- to five-day delivery and 24/7 service. “With this launch, Amazon is expanding its third-party logistics capacity to support businesses in industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and retail,” Amazon noted. Amazon said the move mirrors its AWS playbook: build infrastructure for its own operations, prove it internally, then sell it externally. This story may sound familiar. Amazon built another major offering—cloud infrastructure—for the same reason: to run its own business better. And then Amazon started selling it. That’s how Amazon Web Services (AWS) was born, and it’s transformed how the world builds and runs software. Now, Amazon is ready to do that for the supply chain. …

Tesla Semi hits the port: drayage operator MDB launches 3-week freight pilot

Tesla Semi hits the port: drayage operator MDB launches 3-week freight pilot

Published by skeptic

MDB Transportation, a Southern California drayage operator, has launched a three-week pilot running a Tesla Semi on active port freight lanes — marking the second port trucking company to put the electric Class 8 truck to work hauling containers. The Compton-based carrier is testing the Semi in one of the most demanding urban freight environments in the country, tracking energy efficiency, cycle time, and driver experience throughout the deployment. Port drayage is the Tesla Semi’s sweet spot Port drayage, the short-distance hauling of containers between ports and warehouses, is arguably the ideal use case for electric trucks. Routes are short, repetitive, and return to a home depot frequently, making charging logistics far more manageable than long-haul operations. MDB specializes in exactly this kind of work, running container moves out of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Founded in 2002, the company is a fully asset-based carrier handling port and rail drayage, dedicated services, and full truckload transportation across the Southwest. Advertisement – scroll for more content “We’re proud to be operating the Tesla …

Mitigating emissions from air freight: Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim

Mitigating emissions from air freight: Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim

Published by skeptic

“SAF is central to the decarbonization of the aviation sector,” believes Raman Ojha, president of Shell Aviation. “Having said that, adoption and penetration of SAF hasn’t really picked up massively. It’s not due to lack of production capacity, but there are lots of things that are at play. And book and claim in that context helps to bridge that gap.” Bridging the gap with book and claim Book and claim is a chain of custody model, where the flow of administrative records is not necessarily connected to the physical product through the supply chain (source: ISO 22095:2020). Book and claim potentially enables airlines and corporations to access the life cycle GHG emissions reduction benefits of SAF relative to conventional jet fuel even when SAF is not physically available at their location; this model helps bridge the gap between that concentrated supply and global demand, until SAF’s availability improves. “To be bold, without book and claim, no short-term science-based target will be achieved,” says Bettina Paschke, vice president of ESG accounting, reporting and controlling at DHL …