Port of Long Beach marks 20 years of leading green
After record year, State of the Port highlights success of 2005’s Green Port Policy The Port of Long Beach is accomplishing its environmental, operational, and commercial goals and is setting its sights on even greater achievements in the years ahead, CEO Mario Cordero said Thursday during his eighth annual State of the Port address. While reflecting on the Port’s record-setting 2024, with 9.6 million cargo containers moved with...
The Future of Electrification Conference returns for its fourth year
ZAPI GROUP’s annual event will explore “Innovating for Change” and new electrification opportunities for global impact ZAPI GROUP has announced it will host its fourth Future of Electrification virtual conference on February 26-27, 2025. Building on the success of previous years, this year’s conference will examine trends in the worldwide shift toward electrification, challenges, and opportunities across different...
PLASTICS releases analysis: December jobs report
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) has released an official analysis of the December 2024 jobs report and its impact on the plastics industry, authored by PLASTICS Chief Economist, Dr. Perc Pineda. Dr. Pineda writes, “The U.S. economy’s unemployment rate was 4.1% in December, while the manufacturing unemployment rate was 3.5%, consistently remaining below the overall unemployment rate throughout 2024. The manufacturing...
Equipment Finance Industry Confidence up third consecutive month in January
The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) releases the January 2025 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market increased for the third consecutive month to 69.6, up from the December index of 68.8, and the highest level since July 2021. The index reports a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and...
2024 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey
Free safety training is available at laddersafetytraining.org The American Ladder Institute (ALI), the only approved developer of safety standards for the U.S. ladder industry, has released findings from its 2024 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey. Results reveal preferred methods of ladder safety education as well as types of ladder-related accidents and injuries, frequency and types of ladder citations, and how rates...
FOX IV achieves sustainability milestone
FOX IV is proud to have achieved Scope 3 compliance of Supplier Leadership on Climate Transition. Supplier LOCT is an educational platform for suppliers, and a company collaborative for their buyers (LOCT partners). It was created to accelerate action towards reducing supply chain carbon emissions. Guidehouse facilitates an instructional seminar series with levels of progress designed to help suppliers create a greenhouse gas (GHG)...
AAR Reports Rail Traffic for the week ending January 11, 2025
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending January 11, 2025. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 465,390 carloads and intermodal units, up 1.8 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending January 11 were 199,511 carloads, down 6.4 percent compared with the same week in 2024, while U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 265,879 containers...
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