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BALTIMORE — The only maritime shipping terminal currently operating in the Port of Baltimore is preparing to process an influx of ships.

As diverted Baltimore cargo lands in Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Florida, truckers and port officials are working out processing details and committed to helping.

A transportation management system or TMS is a logistics platform that uses technology to help trucking businesses plan, execute, and optimize the physical movement of goods, both incoming and outgoing.

The Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act, sponsored by Reps. Dusty Johnson and John Garamendi, was approved on March 21 by a vote of 393 to 24.

The National Motor Freight Traffic Association announced an update to its electronic bill of lading standards March 26 to help digitize less-than-truckload shipping.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA, one of the largest car shipping companies, said it expects a $5 million to $10 million hit to its earnings from the Baltimore bridge disaster.

Boosting U.S.-Mexico cargo movements through the Port of Laredo will be a key outcome of President Joe Biden’s recent enactment of a new law designating a future Interstate 27.

BALTIMORE — Crews opened a second temporary channel April 2 allowing a limited amount of marine traffic to bypass the wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Major freight railroads will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized April 2.