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Aviation apps are gaining popularity among pilots, and the ForeFlight product has gained significant traction in business aviation.

Smaller fleets see best growth in driver capacity, but shippers only tap them once in a while, creating more volatility.

Asset Balance Solutions is the latest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). BiTA just released the first blockchain standard for the freight/logistics/supply chain industries.

Last-mile delivery network aggregator Shipsi announced a new roster of ecommerce and retail partners across the U.S. to support and fuel its march towards the future of retail.

Witnesses gave a Senate committee recommendations on how to streamline the permitting process to expedite project delivery.

VayaVision, a startup that develops perception software for autonomous vehicles, today announced that they are the recipient of a €2.45 million SME Instrument Grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to support its expansion into the European market.

BLOC recently collaborated with mining company BHP, Japanese shipping company NYK, and biofuel company GoodFuels, to deliver sustainable biofuel to the BHP-chartered, NYK-owned bulk carrier – all via BLOC’s blockchain fuels assurance platform.

Innovations in last-mile delivery continue, but each faces challenges to widespread adoption, although UPS, which will trial Thor electric trucks, encourages fleets to test out new technologies.

Ministers from three member states of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership expressed support for the possibility of the U.S. rejoining the agreement.

The nation’s top food and drug regulator stepped up controls on e-cigarettes and unsafe medicines as well as advanced the Food Safety Modernization Act.

A National Association of Manufacturers survey, which coincided with a speech by Vice President Mike Pence, found concerns remain about infrastructure.

KoBold Metals’ algos analyze geological data to find untapped sources of cobalt ore.

Nazak Nikakhtaris, assistant secretary for industry and analysis, also will perform “nonexclusive duties” of the agency’s undersecretary for industry and security post.

The Section 232 investigation begun Monday is in response to a petition filed in September by domestic producer Titanium Metals Corporation.

Trump administration says India failed to meet certain conditions to stay in program, while Turkey no longer needs preferential trade access to the U.S. market.

Talks between the U.S. and China have made significant progress over the last several weeks, and the two sides appear to be closer to a deal than at any time over the past several months. However, while the restoration of positive trade relations will help the trade outlook, other factors are likely to keep trade growth subdued going forward.

The 25-year contract, which includes a facilities lease and equipment sublease, calls for a $238.7 million investment, including the operator putting $28 million toward the harbor deepening project.

The China Post and Deppon Express will begin autonomous package delivery in April using technology developed by FABU, a self-driving startup based in China and the U.S.

Happy Returns has unveiled a self-service return solution that would allow shoppers to return items at the storefront – eliminating the need for them to return items through a laborious mail process that is the norm today.

NTSB will look at the potential for hazmats such as lithium-ion batteries as a contributing factor in last week’s Atlas Air crash.

The credit metrics for XPO have weakened but are still good enough for a BB rating.

The Swiss engineering group’s MoorMaster systems are scheduled to enter service in 2020.

Columbia Transport, based in Italy, joins the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.

Truck Spot is an app that helps truckers sub-lease parking spots on an hourly or daily basis and make sure they do not run out of options to park their trucks at the end of their HOS, or when they want to take a break.

Asparagus from Mexico and California moves around the world as air cargo from Los Angeles International Airport.

FreightWaves executives discuss how futures mitigate risks facing carriers, shippers and intermediaries in spot trucking market.

E-commerce platforms and rapidly changing IT are challenging the agency’s regulatory oversight and systems to keep pace.

The State and Commerce departments work to release final rules to shift some firearms and related items from the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List.

Oregon business and philanthropic leader Peter Stott started his first trucking company in 1969.  

CBP and COAC make strides to improve procedures for bonded cargo moves, but more work still needs to be done.

Competition will stimulate industry submissions of cutting-edge, nonintrusive technologies that detect opioids in small packages.

Trucking-as-a-service is poised to break out into 5x growth over the next five years, says Frost & Sullivan.

Transportation-as-a-service will have a huge 2019, and Lyft is kicking it off.

Exports improve sequentially, raw materials price ease again.

A summary of the key developments in the U.S. economy over the past month and highlighted trends to watch in March.

For the second time in several weeks, Amazon has pulled out of a huge real estate deal many thought was a sure thing.

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.