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Commonwealth tries to bring more skilled techs into the logistics, warehouse fold.

The executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition discusses port congestion, demurrage and detention fees, and ongoing China tariffs on agricultural goods.

The Pacific Merchant Shipping Association and longshoremen oppose the plan by the Oakland Athletics to build a ballpark on Port of Oakland property.

Online retailer ramps up warehousing and ocean freight presence as part of meeting tight delivery window demanded by customers.

The truck is the first of 10 the companies will deploy as part of the ZANZEFF project to haul cargo received at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The funds will be used to scale its warehouse robotics system, as well as expand sales and marketing in North America and internationally.

The Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) EXPO kicked off today with a pre show unveiling of Toyota and Kenworth’s first jointly-developed fuel cell electric heavy-duty trucks.

Cathy Morrow Roberson explains what makes Miami International Airport (MIA) special, and what the airport, airlines and air cargo companies are doing at that particular facility to facilitate cargo. Learn more about MIA in this article.

Amazon.com, Inc.’s volumes are so immense that the company has pitched tents to support its deliveries.

The inbound container flows had a big impact to freight volumes in the port cities of Savannah and Los Angeles this past year.

Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins led the funding round, which increased the Atlanta-based warehousing and distribution startup’s capital raised to $15 million.

Changing distribution patterns could spell trouble for intermodal, report says.

Utilities aim to meet ambitious goals of reducing emissions across western U.S., but technology and financing remain big hurdles.

Demand softened while supply caught up, firm says.

Amazon bowing out of China; U.S. doubles oil exports in 2018; electric scooters bite into dockless bike sharing market.

World Distribution Services will invest $6.2 million in collaboration with Lingerfelt Commonwealth Partners on the project in Virginia Beach.

STORD simplifies the distribution experience of shippers by networking with warehouses and carriers, and providing shippers with warehousing capacity and transportation based on their needs.

Air cargo market expert Jesse Cohen writes about the ongoing efforts to increase security in air cargo operations. Read about the latest measures and how they impact the movement of freight.

J.B. Hunt blames its earnings and revenue shortfall on weak intermodal freight volumes, harsh winter weather and concerns about possible tariffs on Chinese imports in its first quarter earnings report on April 15.

FleetZoo is a delivery and service optimization startup that is solving the last-mile problem by providing a solution that lets companies optimize and visualize all their delivery routes in a matter of minutes.

J.B. Hunt’s (NASDAQ: JBHT) earnings report have some questioning if the truckload (TL) carriers are likely to miss earnings now and how will the stocks perform moving forward.

The company also announced plans to invest up to $136 million in automated and semiautomated expansion projects and select redevelopment at its Atlanta campus.

LA caught between straits of labor and capital; group looks for ocean freight’s Esperanto; and digital-first forwarder gets $20m funding.

Market expert Jim Blaze questions the benefits to-date of precision scheduled railroading (PSR). Read his views on how railroads could prove PSR’s value to shippers.

Deal broadens Americold geography, protein business.

Industrial output in the economy continued to struggle in March, as a stalled manufacturing sector continues to weigh on freight demand in the economy.

FreightWaves and the Transportation Intermediaries Association announced a program that will provide SONAR to TIA members and staff. SONAR is the leading data/analytics platform in the transportation industry.

Considering that Singapore has over 20,000 people per square mile, it may be prudent for the city-state to consider air taxis as an urban mobility option.

Flowspace helps companies source on-demand warehousing space, allowing them to scale up rapidly and concentrate on gaining more customers, rather than stagnate with the burden of finding warehouses to stock products.

Canvas Ventures led the funding round for the on-demand warehousing and fulfillment startup, which was founded in 2017.

‘Discretionary’ cargo may look elsewhere for U.S. dock space should the biggest terminal in the biggest port not find ways to be more efficient.

Intermodal volumes fall by 7 percent, but a 10 percent increase in revenue per load helps the segment increase revenue by 2 percent.

Officers are elected to the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses and World Food Logistics Organization boards; ICTS director is hired.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union opposes plan to automate the APM Terminals container facility.

With this acquistion, TeleSense will help drive the automation of the grain supply chain and expand its footprint across Europe.

Plus: Amazon acquires warehouse robotics startup; Germany reckons with electric vehicles

While tariff fight may not repeat itself, other factors that lead to drayage capacity crisis still in play for shippers this year.

The industry’s recruitment and retention problems are compounded by increased federal and state regulations, a competitive job market and time away from home.

Intermodal loadings fell by as much as 4 percent due to weather events impacting the western network, Todd Tranausky said in an FTR State of Freight webinar.

French company is increasing its warehousing space in Vietnam almost tenfold.

Despite a 4.7 percent year-over-year decline in cargo movement, the port still recorded the second-busiest first quarter in its history.

E-commerce has changed consumer buying habits, but it has also changed the supply chain for less-than-truckload carriers, who have had to adapt in various ways to keep pace.

sennder has raised investment to expand its digital freight markeplace footprint across Europe.

The last mile has become first priority.

Oscar Thwin, Todd Naramore and Jerry Critchfield all are named vice presidents.

Pre-tariff front loading to the U.S. and seasonal slowdown contribute to weakness in ocean freight rates from world’s largest exporter.

In 2018 “logistics had to focus on the discipline of scarce resources management,” says CEO Bernhard Simon.

Move seen as another effort to position Amazon as competition to incumbents.

Market volumes remain strong from a year-over-year perspective, driven by the continued strength of the West. What does this imbalance mean for the freight market as the busy season approaches?

Subsidiary of CBX Global has opened four offices in China to provide solutions to customers’ varied problems.

“All southern ports are working the same,” the Laredo Licensed U.S. Customs Brokers Association said in regard to lane reductions for commercial traffic at ports of entry.

In a striking private equity deal, Providence Equity Partners has agreed to buy GlobalTranz (GTZ), a top 10 third-party logistics provider (3PL), back from The Jordan Company after selling GlobalTranz to Jordan for approximately $400 million in June.

Fast Radius, a leading manufacturing technology company, has announced its Series B financing round of $48 million led by UPS, with strong insider participation from Drive Capital.

Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has handed out a smack-down to the three main longshoremen companies in Australia, which were using their oligopoly market power to impose unfair terms on trucking companies. The stevedoring companies involved are DP World Australia, Hutchison Ports Australia and Victoria International Container Terminal.

DHL unit to enter a big auto supply chain business at Charleston.

In partnership with Slync… retailers are shifting to omnichannel strategies to survive disruptions from e-commerce, but implementing omnichannel requires sophisticated supply chain data analytics.

Air cargo varies from the size of an envelope to a 200-ton piece of machinery. Learn about the airplanes that are capable of moving the biggest, heaviest cargo on earth in this article by FreightWaves Market Expert Jesse Cohen.

The Deutsche Post DHL Group subsidiary will invest $100 million to construct 1.7 million square feet of warehousing space at its South Carolina site.

As the 2018 import overhang lingers for a while, box ship rates may also suffer.

Ports, logistics and finance conglomerate China Merchants Port Holdings announced a massive jump in operating revenues and a rise in profits for the year ended December 31, 2018. Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed China Merchants, which operates box and bulk ports primarily in China but also around the world, reported revenues of HK$10.16 billion (US$1.29 billion). That’s a 16.9 percent increase on the previous calendar year’s figure of HK$8.7 billion.

DSV will acquire Panalpina in an all-stock deal to create the world’s fourth-largest freight forwarder.

Specialty retail and electronics retail stores are the least efficient loading and unloading docks for carriers according to FreightWaves latest index.

Precision scheduled railroading and positive train control can help railroads improve service, safety and profits. Learn how in Jim Blaze’s piece.

U.S. rail volumes are poised to be lower in the first quarter compared with last year, but whether that decline indicates a looming recession remains to be seen.

One of the biggest terminals on the west coast is showing better results after multi-year automation project as final auction nears.

The surge in imports as shippers “pulled forward” cargo in December is reverberating into this year and has set a high bar that will be hard to match in late […]

The two new cranes, identical to the pair delivered in March 2018, are part of the port’s $300 million in Packer Avenue Marine Terminal improvement projects.

L.A. volumes are propping up national freight volume but starting to fade. Are there any signs of another region emerging to take over for the West Coast?

Section 301 tariffs on goods from China are hurting some U.S. businesses downstream in the industrial supply chain, after the U.S. started imposing the measures last summer to generate changes […]

Fortna, a supply chain automation design and implementation company, announced today that it entered into a recapitalization agreement with private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.

India-based logistics startup Delhivery has secured $413 million in new funding with Japan’s SoftBank leading the round.

“We’re looking at finding ideas and turning them into billion-dollar companies and working with key leaders in the industry to help them take advantage of the technologies.”

The 16,500-square-meter facility is located within a three-mile radius of all six container ports at Busan New Port and less than 10 miles from Gimhae International Airport.

Hwy Haul is a freight logistics startup that uses data science and optimization algorithms to connect carrier capacity with freight volumes over a digital trucking marketplace.

Ohio raises diesel and gasoline taxes; YRC’s rank and file get their hands on a new collective bargaining agreement; Uber’s IPO approaches; warehouse automation growing rapidly; Vietnam’s logistics growing 14-16% CAGR.

The harbor commission delays a vote on permitting APM Terminals to automate its Pier 400 container terminal during a hearing that drew more than 2,000 people.

With widespread adoption and government backing, hydrogen fuel cells could be an economically viable alternative to bunker fuel in the maritime industry, especially after the IMO sulfur cap regulation kicks in by 2020.

28-day cooling off period now in works after contentious debate about automation; Union reminds officials that ‘robots do not pay taxes.’

Hong Kong-based Tigers, a global transportation and logistics company, is the latest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). BiTA is developing blockchain standards for the global transportation/logistics/supply chain marketplace.

The Atlanta sales office will support both the asset-heavy and asset-light sides of AMX.

Investors are risk-on for Europe, putting money into Italian, Greek, and junk bonds, and equities.

China is the number one country for emerging logistics opportunities in 2019, according to the latest annual Agility Logistics Index, which surveys over 500 logistics professionals. The country also takes the top spot both for domestic and international emerging markets logistics opportunities. India was in second place. Countries in the Middle East and South East Asia showed strongly too.

10-year old lawsuit is win for contractors but driver classification issue remains largely unsettled.

Plus: Amazon slammed for warehouse suicide rate, Allstate chief disses automotive industry and real estate giant moves into logistics.

The IEA came out with some detailed numbers on what the impact of IMO2020 will be on diesel demand. But its estimate of non-compliance is a lot more than that of a panelist at CERAWeek.

United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) is being sued by 19 employees at an Ohio distribution center who allege the company fostered a “racially hostile work environment.” The lawsuit, filed in […]

A Colorado state trooper is killed while helping a stranded driver during Wednesday’s blizzard. Record winds, wrecks, road closures, power outages also results.

Shippers and 3PLs are looking to build relationships that are less transactional and more strategic. That requires a shift in thinking, as both parties have to pay attention to a broader set of concerns than spot and contract rates. (Sponsored by Redwood Logistics)

National freight volumes pulled back a bit this week after a strong start to March. Not all areas of the country are having the same experience.

City’s construction boom helped fuel influx of steel to Canadian inland port.

Digital communications making progress, but not as fast as hoped

Good day, Data mining efforts in the post-ELD era continue apace. On Friday, software firm Trucker Tools LLC and consultancy J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. launched a platform integration […]

Logistics will play a key role in recovery after the deadliest tornado in Alabama in more than 80 years struck Sunday.

OLIMP is a platform that connects shippers and carriers to provide cross docking, on demand warehousing and last mile delivery. 

The American Logistics Aid Network’s volunteers prepare to assist Alabama and Georgia communities struck by tornadoes as well as flood-ridden areas of Tennessee.

The Anchorage airport has built its reputation on location, location, location. But the facility also boasts an operations advantage that many carriers don’t know about.

REIT beefs up light industrial portfolio, enters bulk industrial segment.

Demand for container shipping in the transpacific was another major topic at TPM19.

Flashback Fridays previews the soon-to-open Freight Alley Haul of Fame and showcases four trucking companies that contributed to the history of trucking.

Tariffs have forced U.S.-based retailers to rethink the sourcing of their goods. “Our 2018 country of origin chart was 29 percent made in China. In 2019 the estimate is it’s […]