Breaking News: Ambassador Bridge owner, trucking mogul Manuel Moroun dies — report

· Monday, July 13, 2020

Trucking mogul Manuel Moroun, the billionaire owner of the Ambassador Bridge, has died at the age of 93, Crain’s Detroit Business reported on Monday.

Moroun purchased the Ambassador Bridge in 1979. The bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is the only privately owned border crossing between the U.S. and Canada.

He also had large stakes in transportation firms P.A.M. Transport and Universal Logistics.

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Nate Tabak is a Toronto-based journalist and producer who covers cybersecurity and cross-border trucking and logistics for FreightWaves. He spent seven years reporting stories in the Balkans and Eastern Europe as a reporter, producer and editor based in Kosovo. He previously worked at newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the San Jose Mercury News. He graduated from UC Berkeley, where he studied the history of American policing. Contact Nate at ntabak@freightwaves.com.