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Prologis, the global leader in logistics real estate, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA).

Rush Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: RUSHA) recently announced the appointment of Elaine Mendoza as a new independent member of its board of directors. Mendoza becomes the first woman to be on […]

Users of Axele by Optym now have access to Truckstop.com’s loadboard within the Axele system thanks to a new integration.

New third-party logistics firm to take over yard and warehouse that handles ‘considerable’ freight.

Plus.ai partners with the Minnesota Department of Transportation to see how its self-driving trucks perform in cold weather.

“This new module will make it easier for Commerce and CBP to monitor and uphold our trade laws,” Executive Assistant Commissioner Brenda Smith of CBP’s Office of Trade said.

The Indian economy is crumbling on the back of an engineered crisis brought on by current government through measures like demonetization, a botched attempt at unifying the country’s tax system, and economic reforms that stifled consumerism.

Matt Silver wants to automate cross-border freight; an industry that many find difficult to manage.

SMC3 has set its sights on providing data services to truckload after decades of serving LTL exclusively

Atlanta market freight futures strengthen on Monday as a result of trade flows.

Jim Blaze writes about the competitiveness of railroads vs. trucks and the railroads’ lack of interoperability.

The Commerce Department said the Chinese government and commercial entities added to the export control list participated in human rights violations against China’s Muslim ethnic minorities.

The association, which represents the country’s customs brokers and freight forwarders, seeks better engagement between Customs and Border Protection and industry software vendors.

Elena Bernardo strayed from a “super safe” career to one that put her on the front lines of technological innovation.

The American Trucking Associations is gearing up to fight against multimillion-dollar legal awards against truckers and their employers who are not at fault but blamed in many car-truck crashes.

Volatile start to Freight Futures last week ends quietly; Regional trends emerge.

The Motley Fool discovers last-mile logistics. IMO 2020 will impact logistics warehousing footprint, JLL says

At the center of the Trade War between the U.S. and China are the American ocean ports.

Spanish capital Madrid is working on a blockchain-powered transport application that unifies all mobility systems across the city and provides high levels of data security to its users.

Motor carriers and commercial drivers agree on just four of the Top 10 challenges facing the trucking industry, according to the American Transportation Research Institute’s annual study.

Reckless e-scooter riders were penalized by the German police for drunk driving in Munich as they left the world’s largest beer festival Oktoberfest.

Comdata has released a new dashboard that will help fleet managers quickly identify and manage fuel spend.

List of titles that founders in the FreightTech revolution should consider

For decades, the European freight rail system has had no major upgrades with regard to axle load capacity, train length or car vertical height.

In this week’s Down Under Trucking – death by reckless driving; hill driving; trucker fired; police shoot tow truck thief; logistics industry urges government to ramp up!

From blockchain to 3D printing, new technologies have the potential to green the supply chain across industry sectors.

Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden said that for the past year, positive unit economics has been Bird’s top priority for a sustainable long-term business. This is an ideology that departs from that of many startups and emerging companies whose focus seems to be on top line growth and revenue building.

National futures forward curve points to potential economic trouble ahead.

Walmart graduates first class from in-DC supply chain academy

Traxens says the new standard will facilitate growth in smart container usage.

Self-driving cars from a U.K. startup Oxbotica took to Stratford’s streets earlier this week, successfully wading through traffic and proving itself safe to navigate in an urban setting.

The Government Accountability Office found that Treasury, State and Commerce agencies, which administer U.S. economic sanctions, lack the ability to definitively measure their effectiveness.

The Baltic Exchange has been unrivaled in its creation of indices for dry freight futures. That may be about to change.

Enter Uber Works – an app that connects shift-workers with shift jobs. The app officially launched in Chicago on October 2.

The transfer of production out of China to avoid U.S. tariffs of up to 25% is having a tangible impact on global trade flows.

Spain’s road transport sector faces a “profound” shortfall in drivers, says IRU

The forward curve inches lower.

Gur Kimchi talks about Amazon’s approach to delivering packages to your doorstep via drone.

Preliminary September orders for Class 8 trucks improved over August but remained stagnant as fleets delayed booking new equipment in the face of ongoing trade tensions slowing swaths of the manufacturing economy.

FreightWaves’ Chief Analytics Officer Dean Croke (who also has been a professional truck driver), reviews the newest Freightliner Cascadia.

Deepscale’s focus on computer vision to give cars “sight” is different from light detection and ranging (LIDAR).

Freight Futures mostly unchanged in quiet trading session on Wednesday.

High driver turnover rates have been common in the trucking industry for several decades. Improving the quality of discussions between fleet management and drivers might help reduce the churn.

Energy markets appear to believe that capacity constraints will raise diesel prices next year.

Postmates just announced a partnership with Walgreens and Duane Read stores – all 174 of them – in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Truck subsidiary of Volkswagen AG will split investment into electric vehicle and software development to speed introduction of alternative fuel and self-driving commercial vehicle options

Officials with the McAllen Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) will soon take a second tour of China to look for new partnership opportunities in that country. Keith Patridge, president and chief […]

After a lower contract roll, Freight Futures start looking to fundamentals.

The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America will work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to develop the education program.

The civil equipment industry is thriving in the face of an overall manufacturing and industrial slowdown with demand for 5G fiber-optic cable installations and state-funded infrastructure projects among the main reasons.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said three GE subsidiaries failed to use “reasonable care” by accepting payments from a Cuban entity associated with a Canadian customer.

Salesforce drew on three years of data from 4,500 e-commerce sites to generate its forecast.

ChemDirect, an online marketplace serving the chemical industry, announces it has joined the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance (BiTA), an organization dedicated to determining best practices and standards for blockchain in the transportation industry.

TruckPark offers drivers the chance to reserve a parking space at dozens of locations throughout the country. A new partnership with Storemytruck.com will expand those locations to eventually include more than 10,000 available spaces at more than 140 locations.

From Oct. 1 new low-sulfur fuel charges are being levied by some container lines with more to follow through Q4. Use of the fuels is not mandatory until January 1, 2020.

Meritor, Inc. announced that it is laying off employees across the entire company in response to declining global truck and trailer demand.

Less-than-truckload volumes to continue to be pressured by weak September ISM report

U.S. sanctions targeting Iranian crude aboard Chinese ships ensnare Canadian-headquartered, New York-listed owner of Bahamas-flagged vessels carrying Russian cargoes via Arctic Sea.

Like Lyft, Uber is also decentralizing car-sharing in an effort to defy categories and shift user perception.

Export and import volumes falling well below earlier estimates as economy slows and trade tensions rise.

Tech fulfillment companies thrive as demand for speedy delivery surges.

Large swings in futures front month prices as spot month “rolls” to October.

Customs and Border Protection issued holds on five products from five countries, requiring U.S. importers to re-export those products or provide additional information that they were not made with forced labor.

Market voice Brian Aoaeh writes about how a company’s supply chain can help or hurt its image with its customers, the media and investors.

DHL Group announced its Strategy 2025 where it expects digitalization to help power its EBIT to at least €5.3 billion by 2022.

A newly published ag-sector report suggests that the lab-grown meat segment will shrink the industrial animal farming market by 50% by 2030.

Jim Blaze writes about the decisions that will go into determining 2020 capital expenditures by the freight railroads.

In 2020, growth is expected to slow further in nearly every global region, except Latin America and emerging Asian economies.

With 7,000-10,000 trucks using the Calais-Dover route between France and England every day, a no-deal Brexit will hit haulage companies hard, says the IRU.

Japanese shipping giant NYK has taken a big step into the future as it has revealed the successful trial of a “Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship”, which it claims as a world-first.

Rod Sims, the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has barked at the many monopolists inhabiting Australia, including the world’s biggest coal export port, the Port of Newcastle.

U.S. sanctions targeting a subsidiary of China’s COSCO Shipping could have far-reaching consequences.

U.S. Xpress announced that it has amended its credit facility to provide the company with a little more flexibility on its financial covenants as an act of prudence.

Imagine if Uber and public transit had a baby.

The system of internal waterways vital to the nation’s shipment of agricultural commodities is rapidly diminishing in its capabilities to handle bulk shipping.

Last week in Trucking Freight Futures: A tale of three regions!

Hong Kong-based 300cubits is suspending its platform after it failed to generate sustained interest within the maritime logistics space due to issues with interoperability and government regulations.

For 235 years China and the U.S. have sought out each other’s markets by utilizing their fleets of merchant ships.

Connected vehicles usher in high levels of complexity due to increasing functionalities, and it is vital for software security to take stock of the situation and update firewalls constantly.

Peter Voorhoeve recently passed his first anniversary as president of Volvo Trucks North America after five years running Volvo Group’s (OTC: VLVLY) Australian operations. During his brief tenure, Volvo’s market […]

Northern Asia is again in the cross-hairs of an extreme weather event as Typhoon Mitag bears down on some of the busiest box ports in the world.

John “JT” Engstrom has spent 10 years studying the freight world. Here’s what he learned:

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Harvest Sherwood selects Fr8Hub as broker; Arizona-Mexico Town Hall focuses on cross-border trade; […]

Ride-hailing and peer-to-peer models cut into traditional car-sharing market.

A big drop in the East region drives the National freight futures index lower on Thursday.

Delta is making a big play for Latin America, a region that is close to its base and where it sees the most growth potential and return on investment.

Ben Thrower writes about the coming IMO 2020 regulations and its impact on the shipping industry.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control identified Moscow-based Maritime Assistance LLC as the head of a “sanctions evasion scheme” to deliver jet fuel to Syria.

The Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) for new Class 8 truck orders in 2019 is trending at approximately 150,000. Note that this number includes orders for interstate, intrastate and private fleets. […]

The outlook for intermodal freight transportation and what’s going on with driver cash flow and factoring issues will be two of the key topics of discussion on the September 28-29 […]

U.S. trucking operators, heed this warning from Asia. Maritime experts say that after the IMO 2020 deadline, fuel availability will be uncertain, scrubbers won’t work, stockpiles will “evaporate” and fuel prices will “go through the roof”.

More scooters are hitting the streets, but investor sentiment is still mixed.

Lyft wants to be a one-stop-shop for all urban transit options, which might turn Google Maps into more of a competitor than Uber.

Amazon.com recently acquired cloud-based startup INLT, a move designed to simplify importing goods into the United States for Amazon’s online merchants, according to Reuters. INLT, which the company said stands for IN:LET, […]

Allcargo Logistics is in talks to acquire Indian express logistics firm Gati to increase its share of the Indian warehousing market.

Freight Futures quiet on Wednesday with a focus on PHI.

Fatigue symptoms can be gathered by measuring the brain waves of truckers, which can be used to sound early warnings before drivers show visible signs of fatigue.

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control said the sanctions do not apply to parent company COSCO Shipping Corp. and other affiliates not involved in the transport of Iranian oil.

Carriers face prospect of hiring more company drivers should they fail the ABC test.

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing is no longer a fad in truck making. Companies are making greater use of the technology to save time and money although the technology itself is still expensive.