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BRAZIL LAUNCHES PORT INVESTMENT PLAN

The Brazilian government has announced a $26 billion incentive programme to overhaul and expand the country’s congested ports. In a bidding process that will begin next year, the government said it is counting on an ‘explosion’ of outside  

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WORKING TOGETHER THROUGH THE UNCERTAINTY

Last week’s Automotive Logistics India conference in Pune revealed that carmakers were willing to work together to make the best of a situation where market volatility, inching regulatory change and huge gaps in infrastructure continued to make things difficult for the automotive industry there to compete globally.

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INQUIRY BEGINS INTO SINKING OF BALTIC ACE

Last week’s sinking of the car carrier Baltic Ace following a fatal collision with the container ship Corvus J in the North Sea has resulted in the confirmed deaths of five crewmen with a further six crew members unaccounted for but presumed dead with no further searches planned.  

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Driver turnover remains above 100 percent

Commercial Carrier Journal, CCJ –  For the second month in a row, driver turnover at truckload fleets reporting more than $30 million in annual revenue was above 100 percent, said the American Trucking Associations’ Trucking Activity Report.

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Rush centers prosper with oil field development

Overdrive Magazine - The Texas oil and gas field boom of the last few years has also been a boom for much of the state’s economy, and that includes the Rush Truck Centers facility in San Antonio.  

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Rush forecasts slightly better sales in 2013

Commercial Carrier Journal – CCJ Truck sales in 2013 will be flat to as much as 5 percent higher than in 2012, said W.M. “Rusty†Rush, CEO and president of Rush Enterprises.  

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Highway fatalities drop to lowest level ’40s but increase among large trucks

An analysis from the Department of Transportation’s National highway Traffic Safety Administration says highway deaths in 2011 fell to their lowest levels since 1949 to 32,367 deaths — a 26 percent decline since 2005 and a 1.9 percent drop from 2010.

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The Auto Haulers Association of America has teamed with the YMCA of Atlanta

The Auto Haulers Association of America has teamed with the YMCA of Atlanta to help make this Christmas a little more joyful for our community of teens. Through the amazing generosity of the Associations Founders and Members, there will be big smiles on a lot of very deserving teens this year!

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QINGDAO PORT TO IMPORT CARS FROM 2013

China’s State Council has recently said the port of Qingdao in eastern Shadong province will begin functioning as a major car import terminal in 2013. It will be the only such facility in Shandong province to do so. A ro-ro terminal

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