Flashback Fridays previews the soon-to-open Freight Alley Haul of Fame and showcases four trucking companies that contributed to the history of trucking.
Technologies can help prevent rollovers, but a new startup company believes influencing driver behavior is the best approach to preventing rollovers.
The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee this week in a letter urged U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to maintain the current $800 de minimis level in forthcoming USMCA implementing […]
Worklete helps frontline workers in the logistics ecosystem to avoid workplace injuries by focusing on their body movement and the way they interact with the environment.
CBP Commissioner McAleenan said the advisory committee’s Northern Triangle Working Group will tackle trade barriers in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
A facility expected to be finished in 2020 will move about 120,000 vehicles annually through the Tradepoint Atlantic terminal.
Shipping lines with direct service calls to the port and that do not transship within 250 nautical miles are eligible for the incentives.
Built at a cost of $1 billion, the Moín terminal will be used to move refrigerated cargo to Europe and Asia
FreightWaves, Nodal Exchange, DAT and ABInBev hosted the seventh Freight Futures Road Show in St. Louis on Wednesday, February 27. The show introduced transportation and logistics leaders to Trucking Freight Futures.
The reduction, effective March 29, is the fourth one of 2019 announced by the Panama Canal Authority following low rainfall in December.
Owens & Minor is exploring a sale, according to sources reached by Reuters, on the heels of earnings that have disappointed investors.
Protecting market share is part of the battle over longer trucks.
Growth in the U.S. economy slowed further in the fourth quarter of 2018, but came in well above expectations to round out an impressive year of growth.
The Nikola Motor Company announced that Mark Russell has joined its executive management team as president. According to Nikola’s press release, Russell will manage the company’s production of new zero-emission vehicles.
Dale Chrystie of FedEx was elected as the first chair of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) Standards Council (BiTAS), during its February Board of Directors meeting.
DAC, a Polish software development and hardware integration company, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), the largest commercial blockchain partnership in the world.
In partnership with Reliance Partners …Cargo theft is a threat for warehousing operations, and visualizing floor operations using 3D interactive maps could be a easier way out for security to pinpoint locations and movement of items in the warehouse space.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he’s “not foolish enough” to think one trade negotiation with China will change all allegedly unfair commercial practices.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Wednesday voiced support of the federal government investing in infrastructure while also streamlining the permitting and approval process to speed up the delivery of road and […]
The Food and Drug Administration has unveiled a plan to further enhance its safety oversight of imported foods through the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Political tensions in the Washington-Beijing bilateral relationship are making the China-based U.S. business community uneasy. Tariffs are being blamed for driving business confidence down, decreasing investment and for re-routing Asia-Pacific supply chains.
Sentiment could be growing for lowering the driver age, but questions linger over safety and wages.
Scanlog, a Scandinavian logistics company will use ShipChain’s technology to improve visibility into its trucking operations, and plans to monitor up to a dozen Scanlog trucks by the end of the year.
The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened to a record in December 2018 as a sizeable decline in goods exports was paired with a jump in goods imports. This reversed the decline in the deficit from the previous month, and the drop in goods exports sent yearly growth into negative territory for the first time in over two years.
dexFreight introduced the Early Adopters Program, through which companies that sign up will have exclusive access to early release versions of the dexFreight platform, and have the opportunity to interact with dexFreight’s development and product teams.
Onfleet won the first annual RTech supply chain innovation award for its online dashboard application. The application’s software assists businesses to manage in-house deliveries, as well as managing outsourced last-mile deliveries.
Start-up is latest seeking to automate the fraught process of securing truck capacity with its test bed at busiest port in U.S.
Compliance issues can result in large fines for companies, which is why some companies find outsourcing compliance programs to experts can be a financial win.
Witnesses gave the Senate Subcommittee on Transportation and Safety a variety of recommendations to improve intermodal infrastructure.
The latest opposition stopped a proposal by 73 WTO members to end an impasse as the U.S. continues to voice its concerns about the functioning of the panel itself.
As the U.S. government works to ease restrictions on where drones can fly, they could become an attractive target for hackers.
The service will be paired with APL’s Eagle Express X transpacific service.
The ship Kauai will be moving cargo to and from Hawaii while Matsonia undergoes repairs.
Project44 announced on February 25 that it had partnered with U.S. Bankcorp (NYSE: USB) to integrate its Advanced Visibility Platform into U.S. Bank’s freight payment solution. The announcement was made at the 2019 Link retail supply chain conference in Orlando.
Redwood Logistics spoke on the importance of technology in the retail supply chain at the 2019 LINK supply chain conference in Orlando.
Trella is a Cairo-based startup that is looking to optimize truckers’ routes so they’re no longer driving empty by connecting them with shippers across Egypt.
Crawford’s mission is to secure large enterprise customers, grow the company aggressively, and prepare for the next stage in the venture capital cycle.
Convey showcased its self-service delivery appointment scheduling platform at the 2019 LINK supply chain conference in Orlando.
The Motiv EPIC all-electric chassis will be installed on Ford F-59 glider chassis at a Detroit Custom Chassis plant. Also, Colorado passes bill lowering the commercial truck driving age and the Port of Long Beach sees near-record volumes.
Cold supply chains suffer from opacity in their operations, which could turn disastrous especially during handoffs – when products are left unattended and might slip out of the prescribed conditions it needs to be stored under. Technology like IoT sensors and blockchain could help companies to monitor their cargo movement better.
Sponsored by Redwood LogisticsThe deployment of technology solutions requires many steps, but using a provider that offers an open systems architecture approach can help ease the transition, eliminating both time and cost.
The coalition will lobby Congress to approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
CBP and the industry continue to bring clarity and control to a significant import process through regulatory changes and automation.
The seizures happened in several separate incidents at two ports of entry along the southern border in recent days.
The Treasury Department agency is taking action against the government officials for deliberating blocking humanitarian aid from entering the South American country.
Congress asked to stop any legislation allowing larger and heavier trucks on U.S. highways.
The petition cited apparent problematic fishing practices near New Zealand, which reduced the dolphin population to almost 2,000 over the past 45 years.
The department is looking for members to fill the 2019-2021 term of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa.
Worldwide customs and logistics software provider WiseTech Global has today announced the acquisition of Containerchain, a provider of a shipping container tracking and managing systems for AU$92 million (just over USD$65.8 million) in cash.
North America On-Highway and Defense softened sequentially, and management thinks the company will make much less money in 2019.
The SEC says that Elon Musk violated his settlement agreement by issuing material, forward-looking statements about Tesla without having them pre-approved by an internal process.
FreightWaves has closed $20 million in Series B funding from large strategic investors including Hearst Ventures, Prologis Ventures, and Revolution Ventures
Microdea is an Ontario-based company that digitalizes documentation and automates back office processes to make them more efficient, seamless, and less wasteful.
Now Group, an autonomous mobility services company created by a partnership between BMW and Daimler, is expected to shape the future of urban mobility and benefit from the opportunities offered by digitalization, shared services, and increasing mobility needs of consumers.
Expeditors should do well in a softening ocean freight market and a Panalpina deal wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.
It is said that moving freight is all about relationships. If that is true, what value does a routing guide provide? A great deal, it turns out.
US Xpress (NYSE: USX) showcased its competency-aligned driver simulator program at the 2019 LINK supply chain conference in Orlando.
Today, everything about your business – your brand, all your customer sales and service interactions, your transparency and accessibility – are part of the consideration set of the customer, and that means a different approach to selling.
EU Ambassador to the U.S. David O’Sullivan told reporters that any imposition of Section 232 tariffs on automotive imports from the EU would end bilateral talks toward a free trade […]
Delay in tariffs comes after a week of talks in Washington with Chinese officials; but the threat certainly good for volumes coming into Seattle.
Tariffs had been set to rise across $200 billion worth of goods from China on March 2.
The project, which is expected to be completed by March 2020, will deepen the harbor from 35 to 40 feet.
At least 40 percent of drivers are still using AOBRDs, and nearly 80 percent of those don’t plan to switch to ELDs until the second half of 2019, just ahead of the deadline.
Government continued to pay for services even though it was aware of carrier’s reweigh policies, YRC, others say.
Unpredictable demand, expectations of a high service level, and labor scarcity are the most significant challenges that face logistics today, and it is crucial for warehouses to face up to it by having the right mix of automation and human resources on its floor.
“We have a lot of reasons to believe 2019 will be our best ever.”
Freight Alley in Chattanooga was the scene on the afternoon of February 21, when executives from FreightWaves, Nodal Exchange, DAT and K-Ratio presented the Trucking Freight Futures roadshow. Trucking Freight Futures debut on the Nodal Exchange on March 29.
VC-backed freight forwarder wants to expand geographic coverage and add freight expertise after latest cash infusion.
Mexico’s ambassador to the U.S.discussed the prospects for USMCA-implementing legislation in her country as analysts weighed in on the variables that could impact entry into force.
JAXPORT leaders at the annual State of the Port address report work may be completed two years ahead of the original schedule.
CBP reminded the trade that drawback claims must be filed in ACE according to requirements of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act.
ZAG International’s overseas managing director acquired cement clinker from a supplier in the United Arab Emirates knowing that it originated in Iran.
The transportation and logistics services company closed out 2018 with the highest quarterly revenue ever reported.
Goods that are stuck at the borders would have to be declared at customs before entering the UK. The magnitude of the declarations would mean long queues at the port, and the U.K. government has reason to believe that blockchain could help avoid that.
Up-and-coming freight forwarder aims to flip script in how to reach customers and Japanese fund is on board for that.
Hong Kong-based Lalamove promises same-day deliveries in under an hour. The company has just closed a $300 million round of funding to expand its geographic footprint further.
Senior U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier Jr. sentenced the final four women to be tried in the Pilot Flying J fraud case to probation and community service, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
Connecticut truckers say tolling proposal unveiled by new governor would hurt business.
Digital upstarts have scored a lot of downloads, but their apps still aren’t as sticky as the incumbents.
Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions during the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, but it also served as an early example of how useful crowd-sourcing and satellite imagery can be in disaster response.
With deeper channels, longer and wider ships will be able to move to and from berths without having to wait for high tides.
The ship, which was damaged by a container fire in early January, currently is at a yard in the Bahamas.
Flexible automation in warehouses is about maintaining floor robots that are mobile, scalable based on demand volatility, and equipped to collaborate with humans for optimizing operations.
A study finds year-over-year growth of 8.2 percent for freight traffic and 3.6 percent for number of vessels that transited the waterway.
Sydney, Australia-headquartered customs and logistics software provider WiseTech Global yesterday released details of massive increases in revenues and profits. ASX-listed WiseTech reported that total revenues increased by 68 percent.
Pointivo, an Atlanta-based startup that makes artificial intelligence 3D analytics technology, has closed a Series A funding round of $7 million.
Ecommerce is revolutionizing the way supply chains work, with predictive analytics and warehouse optimization playing a huge role in keeping up with consumer expectations.
With the completion of the rights offering, the beleaguered carrier has a completely new capital structure.
A KPMG trade analyst during a webinar outlined several measures companies subject to Section 301 duties might look into in order to remain competitive.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform exposes potential ethics violations by the White House in its support to export nuclear power equipment.
Hong Kong is under global pressure to close back channels to facilitating exports used in weapons of mass destruction programs in sanctioned countries.
The call will be a part of the company’s Pacific Express 3 service, which will create the “first direct connection” between the Vietnam market and central Florida.
A solid quarter, year despite decelerating sequential net revenue.
A solid year with more on tap for 2019, Atlas says.
Walmart’s latest earnings report beat analysts expectations today, with e-commerce sales growing by 43 percent during the company’s fourth quarter.
Nothing is certain except death and taxes. And, apparently, vehicle recalls.
GreyOrange announced a AI-powered modular sortation system that provides flexible automation in modern distribution and logistics centers, and can sort close to 12,000 parcels per hour.
SIMBA Chain has raised $500,000 in a pre-seed financing round, according to PR Newswire. Backers of the round include Elevate Ventures, the Notre Dame Pit Road Fund, Tracy Graham (chief executive officer of Data Reality) and Hari Agarwal (chief executive officer of AECI International).
The audience in Atlanta was one of the most engaged and informed to date.
Shippers responded to tight capacity and high rates in 2018 by turning to managed transportation providers, and if the predictions for 2019 come true, they will likely continue down this path.
