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Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Business
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April container volumes surge at Port of New York-New Jersey
The busiest container port on the U.S. East Coast saw surging container volume in April. The Port of New York and New Jersey handled 751,194 twenty-foot equivalent units in April as shippers continued to frontload imports ahead of tariffs on Chinese goods. The total was an increase of 24% from April 2019 prior to the pandemic and a 6% gain from April 2024, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Over the first four months of the year, the port handled 2,954,913 TEUs. This marked a 23% jump from the same period of 2019 and an increase of 9% from the first four months of 2024. Container rates tracked by SONAR paralleled the April gains as container rates from Yantian, China, to New York-New Jersey staged a 'V shape-plus' recovery after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on April 27 said 'there is a path' to a tariff agreement with China. Rates increased from $3,826 on April 28 to $4,348 on May 1. Find more articles by Stuart Chirls ports will hurt jobs, US maritime revival: AAPA Texas port completes $625M ship channel deepening project 'Fear and uncertainty' driving up China-US container rates CMA CGM developing $600M Vietnam container terminals The post April container volumes surge at Port of New York-New Jersey appeared first on FreightWaves. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Metro
03-06-2025
- Metro
Horror as toddler found riding baggage conveyer belt at embattled airport
A two-year-old child was discovered riding a baggage conveyer belt from a ticketing desk to a luggage at an airport marred with multiple problems. The toddler snuck behind a JetBlue ticketing counter at Newark Liberty International Airport while his parents weren't looking, and onto a conveyer belt where baggage are checked in. He rode the conveyer belt to the checked bag room on the lower level of the airport in New Jersey on Wednesday, according to officials. As soon as adults realized the small child was missing, two officers with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the airport, jumped on the belt. 'The two cops were able to move fast into the system, which was vital,' Port Authority Police PBA President Frank Conti told Pix11. 'There was a split in the belts. One officer went toward one direction, one toward the other direction.' An officer then saw the toddler approaching an X-ray unit. He was rescued and unharmed, but medical responders examined him to make sure. The situation was 'extremely dangerous,' said Keith Jeffries, who is vice president for K2 Security Screening Group. 'You've got diverters back there that are actually these gigantic pushers or levers, if you will, that will shove those bags down the appropriate conveyor belt, and that alone can be fatal for a small child,' he told ABC News. The toddler was rescued more than nine months after a 57-year-old woman was found dead after getting tangled up in a baggage claim conveyer belt at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The terrifying incident happened at the airport that has made national headlines in recent months for having many canceled or delayed flights due to a shortage of air traffic controllers and runway construction. On more than one occasion, controllers lost radar communications with planes for about 90 seconds. The issues lead to United Airlines, which has Newark airport as a hub, to cut back numerous routes going in and out from there. On Monday, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the runway at Newark that was closed for repairs had reopened two weeks ahead of schedule. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: US suggests Palestinian state should be in the French Riviera MORE: Map shows where northern lights will be visible tonight in the US MORE: Flight path overhaul revealed – here's what it means journey times and delays
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
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For AI, data is king: FutureTech presenters
This story was originally published on Construction Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Construction Dive newsletter. SAN FRANCISCO — For the second year in a row, artificial intelligence was the talk of construction's tech mavens. Speakers gave attendees at the recent ENR FutureTech conference a peek at how they apply AI-based systems and products to their workflows and jobsites. Many spoke of how AI affects their specific focus areas while showcasing the tech's diffusion into every aspect of the building industry, from visualization to mentoring and data usage. For example, Sadia Janjua, chief of digital transformation of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, explained how the agency has leveraged in-house chatbots during the conference's opening keynote on May 6. One chatbot learns from the Port Authority's standard operating procedures, manuals and documentation, and can share that information in the form of a quick chat with a user, without requiring multiple searches. 'Effective AI hinges on high quality, structured data, and I like to think of it as the essential fuel for AI solutions,' Janjua said. At FutureTech, practical solutions were a recurring motif. Hamzah Shanbari, director of innovation for Jacksonville, Florida-based contractor Haskell, described how the unlikely pairing of AI and Wi-Fi signals can be leveraged in a mapping software that can track the progress of construction on a site. By placing commercially available routers at different locations throughout the jobsite, the Wise system can identify conduits, ductwork and pipes with the help of an AI model that the company is training to spot the minute differences that separate these structures. The end result is what Wise's website calls accurate, near real-time progress tracking on jobsites. While Wise is still in the research and development phase, Shanbari was bullish on its potential. 'Imagine what we can do if we actually sit down and develop those nodes to be specifically used for this tracking, and not just off-the-shelf solutions?' Shanbari asked listeners. Contractors, when it comes to AI, have a lot of 'optimistic pessimism,' said Kris Lengieza, global technology evangelist at Carpinteria, California-based contech giant Procore. Builders, Lengieza said, are looking for solutions that they can apply to existing problems in their businesses. 'I think they're worried that it's a lot of flash and bang, and not a lot of action,' Lengieza told Construction Dive during the conference. Indeed, presenters cautioned, as they did in 2024, that contractors need to at least start experimenting with the tech to see how it applies to their unique workflows, or risk falling behind the competition. The first touchstone on that journey is the information that is fed into it. 'AI implementation doesn't start with algorithms. It really starts with your data,' Janjua said. 'If your data is inconsistent, siloed and inaccessible, AI will only amplify those issues.' That data discussion at FutureTech was an extension of a similar conversation at this year's New York Build Conference in March. There, speakers said data quality is causing problems across the industry, and holding it back. The question about how to leverage data has needled at builders since the technology entered the mainstream with OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT in 2022. The overarching question of making sense of the millions of data points a contractor can collect on any one project has bugged builders as long as they've been able to track it. To that end, contractors have historically found success with AI-based products that target specific, narrow issues. Providence, Rhode Island-based Gilbane Building Co. used New York City-based Trunk Tools' AI program to track 21,000 documents on the $456 million Baird Center expansion project. With the tool, Gilbane avoided more than $100,000 in rework per month. At FutureTech, it was those kinds of specific uses that got attendees' attention. To that point, according to Lengieza, data is quickly becoming construction's new concrete. 'It's going to be what everything is built on. It's going to be what differentiates contractors,' Lengieza said. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Yahoo
Surveillance footage shows how JFK stowaway Svetlana Dali slipped past TSA
The unhinged Russian stowaway who snuck onto a Paris-bound flight at JFK Airport last year gained access to the plane by blending in with a group of passengers and sneaking past two distracted gate agents, new video captured. Svetlana Dali, 57, was spotted on surveillance footage as she navigated past several security checkpoints before boarding the Delta jet at the Queens airport on Nov. 26, 2024. Dali was waved through a security screening checkpoint before a female TSA agent conducted a quick body pat-down and allowed the woman through to the terminal, according to video from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and obtained by the Associated Press.
Global News
24-04-2025
- Global News
Security footage shows how stowaway slipped past security, boarded flight
Newly released surveillance footage shows how a Russian national stowaway was able to slip past security at JFK International Airport in New York and successfully board a flight to France. Security camera video, provided by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to The Associated Press on Wednesday after a records request, shows Svetlana Dali not only eluding gate agents checking boarding passes for the Delta Air Lines flight last November, but also going through security undetected earlier in the day, despite being screened and getting patted down. Dali, 57, was taken into custody in Paris in late November 2024, after she snuck onto a flight without a boarding pass on Nov. 26 and flew all the way to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, apparently concealing herself by spending long periods of time in the plane's multiple bathrooms. Story continues below advertisement She was detained when authorities discovered she didn't have a valid visa to enter the country, French National Police said at the time. 1:54 Woman who stowed away on NY flight to Paris appears in court According to court documents, viewed by The Associated Press, Dali was initially turned away from security screening at JFK International Airport by a Transportation Security Administration officer after she failed to produce a boarding pass. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy However, the documents claim she was able to sneak into a separate security lane for airline employees and blend in with a large Air Europa flight crew, making it to the point where bags are inspected and passengers screened. The security footage shared Wednesday shows Dali joining a group of passengers boarding the flight and strolling past the Delta agents checking tickets without being stopped. After she was arrested on French soil, two unsuccessful attempts were made to deport her back to the U.S., but both were postponed after she 'started screaming' and kicking up a fuss once aboard the departing planes. Story continues below advertisement She was finally brought back to the U.S. on Dec. 4 and arrested by the FBI. Despite a Dec. 6 court hearing that ordered her not to leave Philadelphia and being outfitted with an ankle monitor until her trial, Dali was not deterred. She was arrested in Buffalo, N.Y., several days later, having allegedly cut off her monitor before making her way to upstate New York, where she rode a bus toward the Canadian border. She was arrested while trying to cross into Canada. She is being held in a federal lockup in Brooklyn, records show. Dali has pleaded not guilty to a stowaway charge over the incident last November. Her trial is set to begin next month but prosecutors and her lawyer have said they are trying to work toward a plea deal.
