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May 3, 2008

Three Ports Plan * USA - Cargo Movement Projects

Plans aim at speeding cargo handling, reducing truck traffic, and cutting air pollution

Sacramento,CAL,USA -CalTradeReport -2 May 2008 – Three Northern California ports - Oakland, Sacramento, and Stockton - are finalizing plans to improve their ability to handle both container and break-bulk cargo and reduce the number of trucks moving on the highway network linking the San Francisco Bay Area and the distribution centers and markets located in the state's Central Valley... The California Transportation Commission has given the go-ahead to the deepening of the Sacramento Ship Channel ... When completed, the project will deepen the 43-mile-long channel between West Sacramento and the Solano County town of Collinsville in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta from 30 to 35 feet... Because the deepened-channel will enable more goods – including cement, fertilizer, lumber, steel, wind energy equipment, project cargo, rice and large construction materials – to be moved into and from the Sacramento area by ship, at least 23,545 two-way truck trips will be removed annually from Interstate 80 between the Port and the Bay Area, with corresponding air quality and congestion benefits... Like the Sacramento Channel deepening project, the proposed ferry service would assists trucking firms in remaining productive by reducing the amount of time transiting congested intra-city corridors; reduce diesel air emissions and traffic volume on the region’s highways; and improve traffic safety by reducing the number trucks per day from the traffic corridors between the deep-water ports of Oakland, Sacramento, and Stockton...

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Feb 5, 2008

Interest Rate Rise * Australia - Should halt truck price hikes

Today’s rise in the official interest rate shows the Australian Government should immediately reject the National Transport Commission’s (NTC) plan to increase truck registration charges and the tax paid by trucking operators on diesel, according to the truck lobby

Melbourne,Australia -ATN -5 February 2008: -- ... The Chief Executive of the Australian Trucking Association (ATA), Stuart St Clair, says the plan will increase the cost of household basics for working families reeling from yet another increase in interest rates. The NTC has recommended increasing the tax paid by trucking operators on diesel from 19.633 cents per litre to 21 cents per litre — an increase of 1.367 cents per litre... The Australian, state and territory governments will decide whether to go ahead with the NTC’s plan in the next few months. Under the plan, the tax on diesel would increase truck registration charges would be phased in over three years... (Video from YouTube, by ianbrown8 -August 23, 2007: "Roadtrains of Australia" huge trucks cross the whole of oz in a few days carrying all sorts of cargo)

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Trucking Industry Singled Out * Australia - As Victorian transport laws reviewed

Despite its importance in the transport supply chain, the trucking industry is being marginalised by a review into Victoria’s transport system

Victoria,Australia -The Supply Chain Review -February 04, 2008: -- ... The Brumby Government last year commissioned the Transport Legislation Review into the Transport Act 1983 in order to look at modernising the Act in accordance with changes in the transport sector... The discussion paper was limited to eight questions, ranging from topics such as the importance of integration and coordination, safety and security, efficiency and reliability, value, environmentally sensitive, socially inclusive and a system that supports economic growth... Peak bodies, lobby groups, local governments and individuals responded to the discussion paper, detailing what they wanted in Victoria’s transport system... The trucking industry might have expected to receive support in the submissions considering research by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows transport and logistics accounts for 14.5 percent of GDP, while 75 percent of freight is carried by trucks... However, the industry found itself under attack from a number of respondents, who called for the removal of trucks from roads, an increase in charges and for the Brumby Government to mandate more freight be carried by rail... The City of Boroondara, in its submission, wanted an end to operators accessing arterial networks and for the Government to push rail over road freight... The project also blamed the trucking industry for the road damage, congestion and pollution in Victoria...

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Oct 30, 2007

PROGNOSIS * UK - DfT plans joined up transport investment after 2014

London,UK -Road Transport -30 October 2007: -- The Department for Transport (DfT) is considering an integrated approach to transport planning on the back of the Stern and Eddington reports. In its 'Towards Sustainable Transport Systems: supporting economic growth in a low-carbon world' report, the government outlines its agenda for transport investment and tackling congestion and green issues after 2014... One of the key factors is the consideration of all modes of transport together rather than separate investment in road and rail. Roger King, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, says a major consequence of the proposal is that the DfT will be more likely to consider intermodal solutions to transport problems. "From our point of view it represents an opportunity to set out the road transport stall and show the politicians the road haulage sector's green credentials.... King adds that the majority of freight is moved by road he hopes that discussions with government based on this document will help tackle the obstacles to an efficient road freight system, such as congestion...

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Jul 18, 2007

* USA - L.A. County offers 'inland port' plan

A hub in the Antelope Valley that would use rail lines could relieve freeway congestion as the ports continue to handle more cargo

Los Angeles,CA,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by Rong-Gong Lin II -July 12, 2007: -- L.A. County officials on Wednesday unveiled plans for an "inland port" in the Antelope Valley — a would-be hub more than 70 miles north of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that is aimed at reducing heavy truck congestion throughout the region's freeways... The proposal comes as officials project a 400% increase in goods movement through the ports over the next 30 years, with transportation experts predicting that all those extra big rigs would further clog freeways... Much of the cargo now is shipped by trucks on Southland freeways to warehouses and distribution facilities in the Inland Empire before it is distributed across the nation... But L.A. County officials want a piece of that action and see the Antelope Valley, with large amounts of vacant land and potential rail access, as an ideal site... The idea would be to transport cargo from the ports to Palmdale and Lancaster by rail, reducing reliance on big rigs...

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