Rail carloads, at 955,579, slipped 7.5%, or 77,166 carloads, compared to November 2018. Intermodal containers and trailers, at 1,019,766, were off 7.4%, or 81,138 units, annually. jberman@peerlessmedia.com

Nearly a full score of GISC member companies have pledged to hire more than 25,000 new impact workers by the end of next year. The goal for 2021 is 100,000. jberman@peerlessmedia.com

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“Strategies for Storms, Flooding and Sea Level Defense,” a day-long conference sponsored by the Ports of San Francisco, Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland, attracted industry experts from around the world this week to Oakland’s Jack London Square. jberman@peerlessmedia.com

The critical need for a strong global effort is demonstrated by the fact that the illegal wildlife trade is one of the most lucrative transnational crimes and estimated by the United Nations to be worth up to $23 billion annually. jberman@peerlessmedia.com

With the holiday shopping season officially in full swing, data issued this week by ShipMatrix, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based SJ Consulting, showed that major parcel carriers, including UPS, FedEx, the United States Postal Service (USPS), and global e-commerce titan Amazon, have started strong for delivery of online items for the week ending December 1, which included both Thanksgiving and Black Friday. jberman@peerlessmedia.com

A letter sent today to Senate and House leaders, for the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, from leadership at the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit libertarian think tank, in advance of the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) December 12-13 hearing on railroad revenue adequacy, raised concerns over what it called the potential for the STB to use revenue adequacy as a means to institute price controls, which is viewed as troubling by CEI. jberman@peerlessmedia.com

The varying needs of supply chain-based industrial property occupiers paints a clear picture of how property categorizations shed light on the intersection of supply chain needs and different types of properties, according to a research report recently issued in a report by San Francisco-based real estate investment trust company Prologis. jberman@peerlessmedia.com