A great deal of information has been forthcoming on Evergreen Marine Corporation’s vessel, the ‘Ever Given’, which ended up grounded on the Suez Canal for nearly a week. Perhaps the biggest takeaways are the references to the global supply chain. Read more about how to prevent future incidents.
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Written by ELIZABETH RHODES Alarmed by a record 17 accidents involving METRORail trains, pedestrian and automobile drivers in one month, officials have reemphasized a safety campaign to help prevent future incidents. The agency’s “See Tracks? Think Train!” initiative includes a rail safety video from the U.S. Department of Transportation illustrating risky actions some pedestrians and drivers take along the rails that
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Shortly before reopening Interstate 10 on Friday, officials announced that it will take about two months and $5 million to rebuild a fallen bridge near Desert Center. “Our goal is to expedite the design and construction, open and operational by the end of September,” Caltrans Interim District Director John Bulinski. Despite the ambitious two month
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Less than a week after federal regulators announced strict new rules for the tank car trains that hauled more than 490,000 loads of oil last year. A train derailed and burst into flames Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of a North Dakota town. “The town of Heimdal is being evacuated,” said Sarah Feinberg, acting administrator of
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SWANTON, Md. (AP) — CSX Corp. says it’s investigating the cause of train derailment near the western Maryland community of Swanton. Spokesman Rob Doolittle says 11 of the 88 cars on a train traveling from Cumberland to Russell, Kentucky, derailed at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. He says no injuries or spills of hazardous materials were
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The Ambassador Bridge has been reopened following a vehicle fire that stopped traffic on the busy international crossing today. Ambassador Bridge spokesman Mickey Blashfield said traffic was restored after the fire, which was caused by a pickup hauling a trailer and headed to Canada. He said what caused the vehicle fire is unknown. He said
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Westbound I-94 is back open after a tanker fire this morning shut down both sides of the expressway near the Dearborn/Detroit border. Eastbound lanes will remain closed from the Southfield Freeway to I-96 through the weekend, according to a Diane Cross, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Transportation. The tanker fire that ignited late
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