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Electric Forklift Part Of Esg Strategy
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How Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Requirements Impact Your Material Handling Equipment Purchasing
ESG strategy requirements are only going to play a bigger role in how you choose forklifts.
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Germany to Force Plastic Makers to Help Pay for Cleanups
Affected items include cigarette filters, drink containers and packaging for takeout food.
November 2, 2022
A truck arrives to pick up a shipping container near vessels at the Port of Los Angeles, on Nov. 30, 2021. An influential government advisory panel comprised of major U.S. businesses is proposing new rules that would roll back already limited public access to import data, a move that trade experts say would make it harder to trace labor abuse by foreign suppliers. The proposal, if adopted, would shroud in secrecy customs data on ocean-going freight responsible for about half of the $2.7 trillion worth of goods entering the U.S. every year in the same way it already is for rail, truck and air cargo.
Material Handling
Businesses Propose Hiding Trade Data Used to Trace Forced Labor
Executives quietly unveiled a proposal to make data collected from vessel manifests confidential.
October 18, 2022
An Amazon Prime logo appears on the side of a delivery van as it departs an Amazon Warehouse location in Dedham, Mass., Oct. 1, 2020.
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Amazon Invests $972M in Electric Vans, Trucks in Europe
The deal would grow the number of electric delivery vans the company has in Europe from 3,000 to 10,000 by 2025.
October 10, 2022
Magliner
Material Handling
Magline, Inc. Celebrates 75 Years
Magliner brand portfolio is exclusive to equipment used for material handling.
August 30, 2022
A container ships passes Pfalzgrafenstein castle in the middle of the river Rhine in Kaub, Germany, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. The Rhine carries low water after a long drought period.
Material Handling
Shippers Prepare for Worst as Rhine Levels Near Critical Low
Shippers have been forced to split cargoes into multiple shipments because the historic drought has sapped the thoroughfare of water.
August 15, 2022
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Overcoming Perceived Barriers to Automation
October 7, 2022
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New EMH G-Series Crane Kits Enhance Trolley Adjustment
September 7, 2022
A University of Washington team created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object. The researchers tested this system on a suite of 22 objects, which are shown here.
How to Help Assembly-Line Robots Shift Gears and Pick Up Almost Anything
July 29, 2022
In this photo provided by Wabtec, a completed modernized Union Pacific locomotive is prepped for delivery at Wabtec's Fort Worth plant in Fort Worth, Texas, in October 2021. Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over the next three years and make them more efficient, but regulators still want it to do more to cut pollution from its engines.
Union Pacific to Spend $1B to Upgrade 600 Old Locomotives
July 27, 2022
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Amazon's custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian.
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Amazon Rolls Out Rivian Delivery EVs
The custom vehicles are made at Rivian’s factory in Illinois.
July 22, 2022
Trucks line up to enter a shipping terminal at the Port of Oakland, Oakland, Calif., Nov. 10, 2021.
Material Handling
Trucker Protest Shuts Down California Port
Hundreds of truckers have blocked cargo operations in a protest of a state labor law.
July 21, 2022
A cotton field in Lubbock, Texas.
Material Handling
How to Retool Cotton
Cotton breeders are using genetic insights to make the crop more sustainable.
July 13, 2022
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What Is BPA?
And why is it in so many plastic products?
June 28, 2022
UPS worker Dyghton Anderson peddles an eQuad electric bike in a bicycle lane while delivering packages, in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Delivery giant UPS is going back to the future in its latest way to get packages to the doors of its millions of customers. The company is considering launching a fleet of pedal- and battery-powered cargo cycles for deliveries in some of the country's most congested cities.
Material Handling
UPS Tests Tiny Battery-Powered Cycles in Congested Cities
The company is trying to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
June 15, 2022
A shipment containing cocaine seized in Romont, Switzerland, May 6, 2022.
Material Handling
Nespresso Workers Find Cocaine in Coffee Shipment
The stash, worth some $50 million, turned up in five containers that arrived from Brazil.
May 6, 2022
New Lithium SAFEFlex Chargers from Green Cubes Technology.
Material Handling
New Chargers Designed for Lithium Batteries in Material Handling Equipment
Efficient charging of multiple trucks can lower utility costs.
April 20, 2022
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Types of AGVs — and How To Choose the Right Ones for Your Company
A closer look at automated guided vehicles and the technology behind their unique applications.
March 25, 2022
An army zodiac secures the entrance of a new section of the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt, Aug. 6, 2015. Cash-strapped Egypt increased transit fees Tuesday, March 1, 2022, for ships passing through the Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial waterways, with hikes of up to 10%, officials said.
Material Handling
Suez Canal to Increase Fees for Ships
It includes increased costs for tankers carrying oil and petroleum products.
March 23, 2022
Two workers weld metal inside the Interpipe Steel plant in Dnipro, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022.
Material Handling
How Weapons Get to Ukraine
And what's needed to protect vulnerable supply chains.
March 16, 2022
Oil
Material Handling
Oil Companies Join Fight Against U.S. Nuclear Waste Facilities
The Permian Basin Coalition has called on Congress to block the storage projects.
March 14, 2022
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks to the media during a visit to the Georgia Ports Authority's Megarail facility, on Dec., 17, 2021 in Savannah, Ga. Clogged U.S. ports are being given access to nearly $450 million in federal money from President Joe Biden's new infrastructure law, part of the administration's recent stepped-up efforts to ease supply chain congestion and lower prices for American consumers.
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U.S. Ports to Receive $450M from Infrastructure Funds to Ease Congestion
The grants are aimed specifically at reducing bottlenecks.
February 23, 2022
In this undated photo provided by the Portuguese Navy, smoke billows from the burning Felicity Ace car transport ship as seen from the Portuguese Navy NPR Setubal ship southeast of the mid-Atlantic Portuguese Azores Islands. The ship's crew were taken by helicopter to Faial island on the archipelago, about 170 kilometers (100 miles) away on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. There were no reported injuries.
Material Handling
Fire Subsides on Adrift Cargo Ship
The Felicity Ace is carrying more than 4,000 luxury vehicles.
February 22, 2022
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DoL Proposes Rule to Update Powered Industrial Trucks Standard
Applying to general industry and construction, the agency says the proposal is to ensure that rules reflect current industry practice and technology.
February 17, 2022
Five ship to shore cranes and gangs of longshoremen work to load and unload the container ship CMA CGM Laperouse at the Georgia Ports Authority's Port of Savannah, Sept. 29, 2021, in Savannah, Ga. The Port of Savannah has added another month to its streak of record cargo volumes amid a surge that’s forced U.S. seaports to scramble to meet demand. The Georgia Ports Authority reported nearly 480,000 container units of imports and exports moved across Savannah’s docks last month. That’s an increase of 4% compared with January 2021, when cargo volumes were already unusually high.
Material Handling
Port of Savannah Reports Record Cargo Volumes for January
Business has been booming at U.S. seaports.
February 14, 2022