Infrastructure The National Asphalt Pavement Association hired Cassidy & Associates to lobby on issues related to the asphalt industry, implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Federal Aviation Adminstration reauthorization. One of the lobbyists on the account is Paul Sass, who spent two decades on the Hill and was most recently the… […]
Posts Tagged ‘transit’
Lebanon Will Become Syrian Refugees’ Transit Stage into Europe: Report
September 18, 2023 Source: Al-Manar English Website The United States of America decided in 2011 to destroy a politically and economically independent nation just because it does not comply with US administration’s policies in the Middle East. USA ordered most of the world countries to dispatch terrorists in order to fight the safe civilians and army […]
Transit of goods via Iran rises 5.4% in 5 months on year
TEHRAN- Transit of commodities through Iran increased by 5.4 percent during the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), the Ministry of Transport and Urban Development announced. Source
FTZs account for 70% of transit of goods via Iran
TEHRAN- Hojatollah Abdolmaleki, the secretary of Iran’s Free Zones High Council, said that currently 70 percent of commodities transited via Iran are transited through the free trade zones (FTZs) of the country. Iran is one of the countries with a special status in trade and transit relations due to its strategic location and special geography, […]
Egypt’s Suez Canal to raise transit fees by 15% in 2023
Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority plans to raise the transit fees for ships passing the waterway by 15% at the start of 2023, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the Canal Authority’s chairman, Osama Rabie, said the transit fees for bulk and tourist ships will also be raised by 10% and will also be applied as of […]
Vehicles of Decolonisation: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank
A prominent part of Israel’s colonial violence is the deprivation of free movement for Palestinians. Maryam S. Griffin’s book, Vehicles of Decolonisation: Public Transport in the Palestinian West Bank (Temple University Press, 2022), provides details of the ways in which Israel collectively denies mobility for Palestinians and how, as a result, Palestinian public transportation becomes […]
Vehicles of Decolonisation: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank
A prominent part of Israel’s colonial violence is the deprivation of free movement for Palestinians. Maryam S. Griffin’s book, Vehicles of Decolonisation: Public Transport in the Palestinian West Bank (Temple University Press, 2022), provides details of the ways in which Israel collectively denies mobility for Palestinians and how, as a result, Palestinian public transportation becomes […]
Iran’s capacities examined at working group on transportation and transit diplomacy
Iran’s capacities examined at working group on transportation and transit diplomacy – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – The fifth meeting of the “national working group on transportation and transit diplomacy” was held on Sunday with the presence of senior executives from transit agencies. The meeting was chaired by Mehdi Safari, the Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy. […]
Transit of goods via Iran increases 81% in 7 months on year
Transit of goods via Iran increases 81% in 7 months on year – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN- Transit of goods via Iran has risen 81 percent during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-October 22), as compared to the same period of time in the past year, the head of Islamic Republic […]
Transit of goods via Shahid Rajaee port up 100% in 5 months yr/yr
Transit of goods via Shahid Rajaee port up 100% in 5 months yr/yr – Tehran%20Times EHRAN- Transit of goods through Shahid Rajaee port, Iran’s largest and best-equipped container port, increased 100 percent in the first five month of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-August 22), as compared to the same period of time in […]
Anna Seghers novel “Transit” comes to Iranian bookstores
Anna Seghers novel “Transit” comes to Iranian bookstores – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – German writer Anna Seghers’s novel “Transit” has been published in Persian by the Qoqnus publishing house in Tehran. Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book first published in 1944. Seghers is famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. […]
Annual transit of goods via Iran anticipated to hit 11m tons by next March
Annual transit of goods via Iran anticipated to hit 11m tons by next March – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN- Transit of goods via Iran is forecast to reach 11 million tons in the current Iranian calendar year (to end on March 20, 2022), the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced. For the […]
Anna Seghers’ novel “Transit” published in Persian
Anna Seghers’ novel “Transit” published in Persian – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – A Persian translation of German writer Anna Seghers’s novel “Transit” has been published in Iran. The novel set in Vichy Marseilles after France fell to Nazi Germany has been released by Qoqnush Publications in Tehran. Setareh Notaj is the translator of the book. Written […]
Millions Of Public Transit ‘Touch ‘N Go’ Smartphone Users Can Be Tracked By Law Enforcement
[embedded content] As more and more people use their smartphones to pay for everyday items, public transit agencies are encouraging millions of Americans to use their phones as their primary means of paying their fares. In New York City and elsewhere, police can use ‘touch ‘n go’ or ‘touchless fares’ to track millions of public […]
Transit Unions Join Forces To Win Safety Protections And Beat Back Layoffs
Above photo: ATU Local 265. Transit workers have been hit hard by the pandemic. Last year at least 100 from the Amalgamated Transit Union and 131 from the Transport Workers lost their lives to Covid-19. Before Covid, transit unions in the Bay Area—six ATU locals, and one local each of TWU and the Teamsters—often faced […]
Afghanistan sends 1st transit consignment to China via Iran
MNA – The first shipment of Afghanistan’s transit goods has been shipped to China through Shahid Beheshti port in Chabahar, southern Iran. Director General of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Organization, Behrouz Aghaei said while the world is affected by the coronavirus pandemic, Shahid Beheshti port in Chabahar has taken a big step to […]
Iran protests at Turkmenistan over surge in truck transit fees
Tasnim – Iran’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abdolhashem Hassannia voiced the country’s protest over a recent move by neighboring Turkmenistan to increase transit fees for Iranian trucks traveling to the Central Asian country by 50 percent. Speaking at a meeting with Turkmenistan’s ambassador to Tehran, Ahmed Gurbanov, Hassannia warned that following the […]
Armed South African Gangsters Blow Up Cash-in-Transit Van During Heist
JOHANNESBURG – Thursday morning at 9.30 am, a motorist recorded a shootout, which occurred when several gunmen wielding rifles exchanged fire with G4S security during a cash-in-transit heist. The gangsters were travelling in an SUV and other vehicles. The gang bombed two cash vehicles that were making their way to a bank from their depot in Kempton Park, which ended […]
Afghanistan has suspended the transit trade meeting with Pakistan
nsnbc : Afghanistan has suspended the transit trade meeting with Pakistan, aimed at dealing with problems hindering the smooth implementation of a revised transit […]
[WATCH] Boston Transit Police Officer Gets Six Months for Beating Woman With a Baton and Lying About it
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Australia’s Refugee Transit Centre on Manus Island: The Fate of Hamed Shamshiripour
Sacramento transit drops G4S
Nora Barrows-Friedman Activism and BDS Beat 20 June 2017 G4S has come under pressure from human rights activists across the globe. (Aimee Valinski/Palestine Solidarity Campaign) Activists in Sacramento are welcoming the decision by the California capital’s transportation board to drop its security contract with G4S, after a campaign highlighting the company’s role in rights abuses […]
Transit Cop from Minnesota Who Asked Man’ is he was “Here Illegally” Still Working as Officer
The Minnesota transit cop who set into motion the deportation of an undocumented immigrant after inappropriately questioning him about his immigration status on a public train is still working as a full-time officer at a neighboring police department, said the local police union. Officer Andy Lamers came under fire […]
Banned from Boston transit stations, pro-Palestine group drives mobile billboard in city streets
Palestine Advocacy Project (PalAd), a Cambridge-based non-profit supporting Palestinian human rights, has unveiled a high-profile, over-sized mobile billboard trailer to protest the 50th anniversary of Israel’s military occupation of the Palestinian territories. PalAd received widespread attention in Boston following ad campaigns it ran on Massachusetts Bay Transportion Authority (MBTA) trains and stations protesting U.S. military […]