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...The ship, which was carrying a cargo of steel products and trucks from the Chinese port of Lianyungang to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Aqaba in Jordan, was flying the flag of Barbados....
...The transport companies were so busy moving art, they ran out of trucks.” If Germany wants this art back, “the law should be scrapped,” says Blau....
...The incidents include a collision between a Cruise car and a fire truck, in which Cruise said its car had been able to identify the truck in an oncoming lane and tried to brake, but had been unable to prevent...
...Henry V would blush. If your truck is capable of more than 56 miles an hour, regardless of what speed you are doing, they can fine you. They love to check your tacho....
...So does Musk think the stated goal he set for Tesla more than 15 years ago, to lead a transport revolution, has finally been achieved?...
...The two companies said they would work together to build an autonomous version of Daimler’s Freightliner Cascadia, a Class 8 truck currently equipped with driver-assist technology....
...“The key test of the V-shaped recovery thesis is likely to come with the restart of schools, and whether that helps drive . . ....
...Balapanov, the Kazakh businessman whose role is described in the FT articles; iv) according to these clarifications, the true beneficiary of the scheme is a person who knows Mr Balapanov and Mr Karmanov; v)...
...India, which passed 5m cases, will buy 100m doses of Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine candidate. Eli Lilly’s antibody treatment reduced hospitalisations....
...Public transport use is very low and trucks are still driving far fewer miles across the country than before the virus hit, although traffic congestion has returned more quickly as people opt for cars over...
...He seemed sufficiently convinced his troubles were over to give an interview to Transport Topics website earlier this year about his new self-driving truck start up Pronto, which does not use the Lidar sensor...
...AI, another self-driving truck start-up launched because of the industry’s “inability to deliver on its promises”, he said at the time....
...Trucks enter Qian’an carrying coking coal and iron ore, and exit loaded with steel....
...Analysts at Morgan Stanley estimate the size of the US freight transport market at $900bn and think Waymo could disrupt the sector by offering long-haul transport at 30-50 per cent of current costs....
...The move would cut the company’s costs by reducing the need for truck drivers, and aid compliance with California’s tough air pollution rules....
...He wanted to apply VTOL technology used by military aircraft such as the V-22 Osprey to the civilian sector....
...“The key question is going to be about whether the fundamental architecture of Waymo’s system is massively scalable,” says Olaf Sakkers, a partner at Maniv Mobility, a transport-focused venture capital firm...
...Vietnam has one major car, truck and bus manufacturer, Truong Hai Automobile Co (Thaco), but it produces for foreign brands....
...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued a notice of violation to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. and FCA US LLC (collectively FCA) for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act for installing and...
...“The system never gets tired,” Wolfgang Bernhard told the FT this year speaking at the launch of its Freightliner truck. “It never gets distracted. It’s always at 100 per cent.”...
...After pushing a button on the steering wheel, the truck steers, accelerates and brakes without the intervention of Mr Urban, an engineer at Freightliner’s headquarters....
...efficiency of freight transport....
...Britain may soon have a novel way to tackle road congestion — an underground network of pipes that propel freight-packed capsules to their destination which could lead to fewer trucks on the road....
...“A lot of trucks are just standing idle waiting for goods to transport,” said one European automotive executive....
...D.V Sadananda Gowda, the railway minister, said on Tuesday the government intended to rely primarily on public-private partnerships to fund an array of projects, including station upgrades and new bullet...
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