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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

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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. Vancouver was the first North American adopter of such a system (/port­ authority/montreal­port­truckers­can­ news/internationtapl­­app­terminal­wait­ and the largest Canadian port also measures and shares with truckers conventional terminal gate turn times. ports/montreal­ times_20161004.html) Montreal Port port­ Authority (/port­news/international­ authority/montrepaol­rts/montreal­port­authority) Contact Dustin Braden at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) and follow him on Twitter: port­truckers­ @dustin_joc (https://twitter.com/dustin_joc). can­tap­app­ terminal­wait­ times_20161004.html) Port News (/port­news) › International Ports (/port­news/international­ports) › Montreal Port Authority (/port­news/international­ ports/montreal­port­authority) US judge urged to pressure Port News (/port­news) › International Ports (/port­news/international­ports) › Port of Montreal (/port­news/international­ports/port­ Hanjin to detail stranded cargo, montreal) equipment (/maritime­news/container­ Trucking Logistics (/trucking­logistics) › Drayage (/trucking­logistics/drayage) lines/hanjin­shipping/us­judge­urged­ North America (/geography/north­america) › Canada (/geography/canada) (/maritime­ pressure­hanjin­detail­stranded­ships­ Slideshow: news/container­ lines/hanjin­ leased­equipment_20161004.html) shipping/us­ Hanjin Shipping (/maritime­ judge­urged­ news/container­lines/hanjin­shipping) LOG IN REGISTER pressure­ hanjin­detail­ stranded­ships­ E­mail * Register with JOC.com and read up to FIVE articles leased­ equipment_20161004.html) Password * every thirty days. You can also subscribe to our daily newsletter. Forgot your password? (/user/password) More News & Analysis (/news)

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