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Fifth largest global carrier is responding to customer interest in greater container visibility.

PierPass says long late-afternoon queues at the entrance to container terminals om Los Angeles and Long Beach have been eliminated.

John Papageorgiou, Senior Product Manager at NEXT Trucking, sits down with FreightWavesTV’s Emily Szink in Chicago to talk about the company’s updated drayage marketplace.

NEXT Trucking is following a path that many FreightTech companies are also navigating, and it believes that its drayage solution will ultimately help truck drivers make $1,000 a day and be home at night.

The rails managed to increase rates while trucking rates continued to compress in October.

truckers hauling construction materials and agricultural products, flyers promoting the protests also have been posted around the ports

It is no longer enough to just provide excellent service. Now, companies must provide excellent service alongside speed, transparency and convenience.

American Cross-Dock & Storage recently announced it was doubling its warehouse space near the Port of Houston, one of the fastest growing U.S. container ports.  The company has entered into […]

NEXT has all the hallmarks of a modern start-up – conference rooms named after superheroes, kombucha on tap and a couple of friendly office dogs.

Along with serving bigger ships and longer trains, the port of Savannah is making truck fluidity a priority.

Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA) is on track to deliver five Class 8 VNR electric trucks to California for its multi-partner Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions (LIGHTS) program before the end of the year, but the infrastructure to charge them may be lagging.

Greenhouse gas regulations are the sticks and incentives are the carrots in driving the heavy-duty truck and commercial vehicle industry to embrace electrification.

While management teams at some of the nation’s largest TL carriers have been talking up the potential for a solid peak shipping season, Universal Logistics has seen peak season sentiment move the opposite direction.

Listen to hear NEXT Trucking’s Lidia Yan, Co-founder and CEO, and Bobby Napiltonia, Chief Revenue Officer, explain how data sharing can improve efficiencies and drive results for your business.

Daimler Trucks is sending the first two eCascadia Class 8 battery electric-powered trucks to fleets in Southern California in late August as part of a 30-truck test fleet preceding regular electric truck production.

Top 10 intermodal company in the U.S. looks to broker to for drayage supply.

GSC handles 12 percent of import containers in Oakland, but its leadership is concerned about plans to build a baseball stadium on port property,

Shippers Transport Express, an affiliate of the stevedoring firm SSA Marine, has obtained a long-term lease on land it uses as a dray-off yard in the Port of Oakland.

Integrated logistics provider Qube (ASX:QUB) issued its formal takeover to the shareholders of target logistics service provider, Chalmers (ASX:CHR) on Monday, July 8.

Volvo Trucks North America is leading a partnership to get heavy-duty electric trucks and the infrastructure they’ll need underway in California.

Also known as the First Mile, drayage is the transport of goods over a short distance between ports and warehouses for truck, ship or rail.

This article brought to you courtesy of NEXT Trucking Intermodal and drayage carriers are seeing a drop in demand about midway through the second quarter. The U.S.-China trade war gets […]

The Supreme Court denial effectively upholds a lower court decision that gives the states powers that the California Trucking Association said it legally should not have.

In partnership with Reliance Partners …When incurring demurrage and detention charges, shippers and carriers lose out on hundreds of dollars per diem. Optimizing drayage operations and dispatching cargo as quickly as possible could help in reducing the burden, especially during unanticipated port delays.

ELD impact substantive but short-lived, Hunt, NS executives say.

Port truck operators could potentially increase their wages by using a new service from NEXT that helps them run shorter runs and return to ports with empty containers. The company just secured $97 million in funding to help it expand.

In partnership with Blume Global… In our view, increased digitization can make drayage markets more transparent and improve asset utilization, making carrier offerings more attractive on both a cost and service basis.

Company makes fourth acquisition in 2018.

Also in the pickup: Morgan Stanley index, and a move back to sailing across the ocean.

It is a significant widening of activities at the TraPac facility.

A panel of experts from all sides of the market confronts the driver squeeze, and says productivity improvements could be like adding new drivers.

Technology firms aim to ease process of managing multiple carriers in regional markets.

Uber Freight is gobbling up $500M per year; the US and China hit each other with a new round of tariffs; Georgia Ports extends its inland intermodal network; Saudi Arabia’s Aramco IPO indefinitely delayed; cannabis supply chains mature; Houston is now an oil exporter.

Universal is bullish on its intermodal division, and the Southern Counties acquisition will allow it to expand its footprint in that area.

All of the metrics were strongly positive, but the CEO expressed disappointment with two of its main activities, automotive and dedicated

FreightWaves data scientists are using GPS data to better understand truck movements through the busiest ports in North America—origin and destination, lanes, and the time it takes to get freight into retailers’ DC networks.

Outbound container volumes at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach reached 13 month highs, a sign that shippers want to move good before the gates close.

A usually non-controversial granting of free trade zone status is denied in the latest skirmish in the “drayage wars.”