Port of Long Beach reaches all-time record in October
Strong consumer demand drives trade headed into the holiday shopping season The Port of Long Beach moved nearly 1 million cargo containers in October, achieving its strongest month in its 113-year history, driven by brisk demand for holiday goods and delayed containership arrivals caused by a nearby traffic incident and fire that affected some terminal operations at the end of September. Dockworkers and terminal operators moved...
Unirope’s Buschmann Wins AWRF Industry Leader Award
Unirope Ltd.’s Knut Buschmann won the inaugural Associated Wire Rope Fabricators (AWRF) Industry Leader Award, presented at last month’s Fall General Meeting in La Quinta, California. The nomination for industry veteran Buschmann, who attended his first AWRF meeting in 1989, was led by the association’s incoming president, Mike Poroo, of Scope Computer Vision Technologies Corp. It was the latest of multiple awards bestowed on...
Every step matters: National Ladder Safety Month coming in March
Resources and training from American Ladder Institute help keep workers safe The months leading up to March and National Ladder Safety Month are critical because the milestone month does more than amplify a safety message; it also celebrates message penetration and accident reduction. The American Ladder Institute (ALI), the only approved developer of safety standards for the U.S. ladder industry, is the presenting sponsor of National...
Power Transmission Leaders gather at 2024 Industry Summit to broaden horizons and elevate excellence
The PTDA 2024 Industry Summit, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo., brought together over 425 power transmission/motion control (PT/MC) industry executives to explore the theme “Broadening Horizons. Elevating Excellence.” The event sparked fresh thinking and provided actionable insights for tackling key challenges within the PT/MC sector. Participants engaged in a series of forward-looking sessions focused on topics like...
John Deere commemorates 75 Years of Dozer innovation
Driven by innovative and ongoing customer input, John Deere commemorates its 75th year as a leader in the dozer market. Since entering the business, John Deere has focused on meeting customer needs to improve job site efficiencies. Beginning production in 1949 in Dubuque, Iowa, the John Deere line-up of dozers has evolved through the years with innovation that has solved industry-wide challenges. “This important 75-year milestone of...
AAR Reports Rail Traffic for the week ending November 09, 2024
Today, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending November 9, 2024. This week’s total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 519,115 carloads and intermodal units, up 4.5 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending November 9 were 224,722, down 3.7 percent from the same week in 2023, while the U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 294,393 containers and...
Alta Equipment Group announced Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results
Third Quarter Financial Highlights: Total revenues decreased $17.4 million year over year to $448.8 million Construction Equipment and Material Handling revenues of $262.3 million and $168.9 million, respectively Product support revenues increased 7.8% year over year with Parts sales increasing to $75.6 million and Service revenues increasing to $64.6 million New and used equipment sales decreased 13.3% year over year to $219.8...
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