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New eModal “Empty Manager” street turn application facilitates interchange of empty containers between truckers, reduces unnecessary trips to terminals.

SOMERSET, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Advent eModal, provider of the eModal® suite of applications that simplify and accelerate the flow of cargo across the intermodal supply chain, today announced the release of “Empty Manager,” a street turn application designed to streamline the exchange of empty container equipment between trucking companies. Empty Manager digitizes what is typically a manual process, providing full visibility and traceability for all parties.

The application, which is free to use for anyone with an eModal account, allows an import trucking company to publish an empty container as available for street turn, while an export trucking company can search for available equipment in their area by size/type, ocean carrier, and other criteria. When they have found an empty matching their criteria, the export motor carrier simply reserves the container and completes the street turn. Both parties are provided instant visibility throughout the process. Future versions of the product will incorporate the ability to make an appointment for the delivery of the export load at the time of completing the street turn, digitization of the ocean carrier approval process, and other enhancements.

“Return of empty containers to the marine terminals is consistently identified by the motor carriers as a critical area of opportunity,” said Dennis Monts, COO of Advent eModal. “By reducing the number of visits to the terminals solely for the purpose of interchanging empties, the Empty Manager street turn application will benefit not only the motor carriers but also the terminal operators. We are excited to be able to provide innovative solutions like Empty Manager to the community and continue to work with stakeholders to identify additional ways to increase efficiencies in the intermodal supply chain.”

Over the last several months, Advent eModal has worked closely with the Harbor Trucking Association (HTA), California Trucking Association (CTA), Washington Trucking Association (WTA), as well as terminal operators to target solutions that can provide the highest impact to their operations. Empty Manager is an example of the results of these ongoing discussions.

“We are pleased to work with Advent eModal on the issues that impact our members as well as the larger port community,” stated Weston LaBar, CEO of HTA. “Particularly in these difficult times, open and constructive dialog is the best and only way forward. We are excited to continue the collaboration with Advent eModal to help bring technology solutions to bear on the challenges that we collectively face.”

In addition to Empty Manager, Advent eModal has also recently released enhancements to its eModal platform to address issues around empty returns. These enhancements include features to encourage dual transactions as well as discourage the hoarding of empty appointments, which sometimes occurs. Additional appointment enhancements are planned for the near future.

About Advent eModal

Advent eModal provides the market leading technology platform that connects multi-modal stakeholders via applications that remove friction at every point of intermodal equipment interchange. The eModal platform hosts unlimited applications, developed by Advent eModal, customers or third parties, that speed container movement, optimize equipment utilization and aid in maximizing financial returns. Core Advent eModal developed applications provide executional tools and APIs offering cargo visibility, terminal pre-advice and appointment setting, payment processing and data enabled business intelligence. For more information, visit https://www.adventintermodal.com

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With Christmas Day almost here, lights and decorations are everywhere.

Rev. Powell of FBCT talks about the annual tradition of “Hanging of the Greens” at the church.
— Photo by Michelle Dryden

Close to home in New Jersey, we can visit Rockefeller Center in New York City to see their famous Christmas tree. Also, residents from the southern region of New Jersey can visit Philadelphia to see their Christmas Tree at their City Hall as well.

But right here in Trenton, the capital city of New Jersey, the community can visit First Baptist Church of Trenton (FBCT) to enjoy that church’s “Hanging of the Greens” decorations that took place Sunday at the church.

FBCT Pastor Rev. Calvin Powell explained the “Hanging of the Greens” tradition at the church as a “time when we come together, and we share in decorating the church. It’s all about love. We come together and we share in love. We have fellowship. We have some food. We have some fun.”

Rev. Powell explained that “Hanging of the Greens” at FBCT is more than a 35-year-old event that takes place the first week of each Advent season.

He said Advent means “coming,” and that for him it signifies the coming of Jesus’s birth that would bring peace into the world. This year Advent began Dec. 1 (the Sunday closest to St. Andrew’s Day) and will end Dec. 24.

By decorating the church, the FBCT congregation is “just trying to get into the spirit of the season,” said Powell.

A fairly new pastor at the 214-year-old church that just celebrated an anniversary in November, Powell also just had his own 4-year anniversary in October.

He enjoys his congregation and the “Hanging of the Greens” activity, among several other ministries at FBCT.

Powell compares the multicultural congregation of his church to Heaven.

“It’s beautiful because we have so many different ethnicities here” like you will see in Heaven, he said.

Other church members who were decorating the church talked about the tradition. A new member, Jacqueline Jones, said it will bring a festive mood so that all who enter the church will be in the holiday spirit.

Also, Naw Martha Hla from Burma, who has been a member at FBCT for 10 years, says she was having fun with the “Hanging of the Greens,” and was happy to celebrate with family and friends.

Meanwhile Jim Russo, says he has been a member of FBCT for more than 30 years, and has been a part of the Christmas decoration activity for a long time.