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Search JOC.COM Special Topics Ports Sailings Maritime Breakbulk Trucking Logistics Rail & Intermodal Government Economy Air Cargo Trade Montreal port truckers can tap app for terminal wait times Dustin Braden, Assistant Web Editor, JOC.com (/users/dbraden) | Oct 04, 2016 4:23PM EDT Print (http://www.joc.com/subscribeprint?width=500&height=500&iframe=true) More on JOC Shenzhen port enacts lowsulfur fuel rule ahead of schedule (/regulationpolicy/transportation (/regulation regulations/international policy/transportatrtiaonnsportationregulations/shenzhen regulations/interpnoarttioennaalctslowsulfurfuelruleahead transportation schedule_20161005.html) International regulations/shenTzrahnesnportation Regulations (/regulation portenacts policy/transportation lowsulfurfuel regulations/international ruleahead transportationregulations) schedule_20161005.html) Russia to overhaul trucking regulations to stabilize market (/regulationpolicy/transportation regulations/international Trucks enter the Port of Montreal, which hopes to reduce congestion and turn times via the collection and distribution of realtime (/regulation transportationregulations/russia truck traffic data. policy/transportation regulations/interonvaetirohnaaulltruckingregulationsstabilize transportation market_20161005.html) International Drayage drivers serving the Port of Montreal can track terminal wait times via a new app aimed at improving gate regulations/russTiara nsportation Regulations (/regulation overhaul policy/transportation fluidity and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. trucking regulations/international regulations transportationregulations) stabilize The Trucking PORTal application relies on Bluetooth, radiofrequency identification, and license plate readers to market_20161005.html) measure truck locations and turn times within the port’s terminals with the ultimate goal of reducing trucker wait Pipavav volume under pressure as intraAsia times. Shippers and truckers can view the data in real time, enabling them to make adjustments to things such as lines drop call (/portnews/asian ports/pipavavvolumeunderpressure their route into the port or their pickup time on the fly as needed. intraasialinesdrop (/port call_20161005.html) Asian Ports (/port news/asian news/asianports) The app, which includes traffic data of local roads, is available in both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store ports/pipavav volumeunder and it also has a desktop version accessible here (https://portmtltrucks.com/). pressureintra asialinesdrop call_20161005.html) “The Port of Montreal is among the first ports in the world to offer its road transport partners an advanced realtime information system on truck traffic on its territory. We are constantly working to improve freight mobility, which is our Liners, Southeast US ports gird for Hurricane Matthew (/port trademark, and reduce our environmental footprint,” Montreal Port Authority President and CEO Sylvie Vachon news/usports/linerssoutheastus said in a statement. (/portnews/us portsgirdhurricane ports/liners matthew_20161004.html) US Ports southeastus (/portnews/usports) The application — funded via C$1.3 million from Transport Canada — uses a combination of Bluetooth and Radio portsgird hurricane Frequency Identification technologies and licence plate readers. matthew_20161004.html) Truck traffic and turn time tracking have been adopted to various degrees at a number of North American ports, Zim bleeds red on weak pricing but restructures debt (/maritime including Los Angeles, Long Beach, New YorkNew Jersey, Virginia, and Vancouver. news/containerlines/zimintegrated (/maritime shippingservices/zimbleedsred news/containerweakpricingrestructures Most ports rely on a system that only tracks the time a truck spends inside a terminal. Some shippers and truckers lines/zim debt_20161004.html) Zim Integrated say using this metric to determine how long it takes a truck to complete a pickup or dropoff is incomplete because it integrated Shipping Services (/maritime shipping news/containerlines/zimintegrated does not account for the lines they must often wait in outside the port to enter a terminal. services/zim shippingservices) Terminal operators say that measuring outside the terminal gates would result in skewed data on account of the bleedsred weakpricing many truck drivers who line up hours before a terminal opens in the hopes of being the first inside. restructures debt_20161004.html) The Port of Virginia in March 2015 became the first (http://www.joc.com/portnews/usports/portvirginia/virginiaportaims Montreal port truckers can tap app for terminal wait times (/port grabmarketsharehinterlandreach_20161003.html) US port to collect “expanded” turn time data that includes the time news/internationalports/montrealport trucks spend waiting outside the terminal gates. 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