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Apr 7, 2009

TRUCKING INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE * USA - USPS market test could add a new player for LTL-like services

Washington,DC,USA -Logistics Management,by Jeff Berman -2 April 2009: -- In a filing submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission, the United States Postal Service (USPS) said it will kick off a market test on May 6 to provide service that will resemble a less-than-truckload (LTL) network... According to the filing, the LTL-like market test cannot exceed 24 months, with total revenues not anticipated to exceed $10 million. The USPS said it will leverage its national transportation network that serves its processing facilities, which are primarily comprised of approximately 440 sectional center facilities and more than 40 bulk mailing centers. USPS does not have an asset-based transportation network, as it contracts out its over-the-road trucking business...


* Port of L.A. Starts Second Intermodal Incentive - Program to encourage ocean carriers to move more containers by rail

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by John Gallagher -Mar 26, 2009: -- The Port of Los Angeles is launching an incentive program to encourage ocean carriers to move more containers by rail into the port... Starting May 1, the Intermodal Container Incentive Program will pay $20 per TEU for each additional container brought in by rail that exceeds their 2008 level... Intermodal rail cargo accounts for over 40 percent of the total container volume at Los Angeles, the nation’s largest container port... The container incentive program is the second of two year-long cost intermodal incentive programs initiated by the port this year. An intermodal discount program retroactive to Jan. 1, 2009, gives terminal operators a 10 percent discount on each container they transport to or from the port by rail. The program is expected to cost $13 million dollars... (Port of LA photo by wirralwater @ Flickr)

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