EVO Transportation & Energy Services has acquired West Side Transport, expanding its geographic footprint and enhancing service offerings.
Typhoons this year have ravaged areas in Asia, home to some of the busiest ports for global supply chains. Billions of dollars in damage has occurred across industries, especially agriculture.
The impact of the possible ILA strike is already starting to become visible in the U.S. What is likely to happen if a strike does occur?
Container management software provider Gnosis Freight announced it has accepted a strategic capital investment from Vista Equity Partners.
The basic per diem rate allowed by the IRS for payments to transportation workers is rising by $11 in fiscal year 2025.
FreightWaves has unveiled its 2025 FreightTech 100 list, spotlighting tech-forward companies that have best navigated a turbulent year.
A new White House effort to reduce the amount of online orders from China that enter the country duty free isn’t likely to interrupt the Shein and Temu business, but could have ramifications for U.S. consumers and retailers.
Cargado CEO and cofounder Matt Silver announced Monday a first-of-its-kind invite-only load board for cross-border Mexico freight.
Brian Bryant, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers international president, joined picket lines this week as some 33,000 Boeing workers went on strike in the Pacific Northwest.
The White House is getting pressure from Congress to relieve tension on the waterfront after Biden pledged not to get involved.
A Transportation Intermediaries Association report says the freight industry is “under siege” from fraud and must evolve to fight the ballooning problem.
As BNSF Railway, CSX and Norfolk Southern continue to sign tentative contract agreements with their labor unions well in advance of the start of national negotiations, one U.S. Class I railroad has been conspicuously absent: Union Pacific.
Marten Transport cited the weak freight market in reducing the salaries of six top executives. The executives’ 2023 salaries ranged from $267,000 to about $811,000.
A challenging parcel environment led to disappointing first-quarter results for FedEx.
Trimble’s 2024 Insight Tech Conference + Expo in Las Vegas drew more than 1,500 attendees from across the transportation industry.
Technology alone is not enough to retain drivers, according to a panel at Trimble’s technology conference Insight. Human intervention still matters.
Paxafe’s Ilya Preston discussed reducing food waste, cutting emissions and more during the keynote discussion at FreightWaves’ Net Zero Carbon Summit on Wednesday.
While there is debate over whether Section 321 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act helps the U.S. or gives foreign companies an unfair advantage, the provision will likely come out changed on the other side of the election.
Diesel-turned-electric truck driver AJ Savas shares the experience of driving an alternative fuel vehicle with FreightWaves reporter Kaylee Nix.
Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Bascome Majors cut his earnings forecasts for less-than-truckload carriers following a soft August.
Continued robust demand for container shipping services could help balance supply and demand, the world’s second-largest vessel operator said, easing strains despite disruptions across the global supply chain.
Jason Massey, CEO of Ndustrial, an AI-powered energy intensity platform for the $60B industrial market, and FreightWaves group lead Brielle Jaekel will discuss the cold chain challenges that are contributing to the industrial market’s high energy usage including transportation costs, Scope 3 emissions, and coincident peaks.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday filed a federal suit against the owner and operator of the Dali, the container ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse.
Evigence’s Oria Malka speaks on how technology helps the cold chain limit emissions and improve shelf life.
Two days after announcing a hiring freeze, Boeing has notified employees it will be moving forward with furloughs over the coming days due to the aerospace workers strike.
Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan increases rail capacity by 250 cars and adds hundreds of feet of new dock for expanded all-water cargoes.
Sami Khan, co-founder and CEO of Nevoya, shares insights with FreightWaves Deputy Editor Brielle Jaekel to dispel myths around electric vehicles.
Sam Stockdale, head of sustainability at Link Logistics, discusses operational sustainability in warehousing at FreightWaves’ Net-Zero Carbon Summit on Wednesday.
Canadian supply chain SaaS provider Descartes acquired MyCarrierPortal, which provides brokers and shippers with carrier onboarding and risk monitoring tools.
U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce is spearheading an effort to have the Department of Homeland Security do more to combat organized retail crime in America.
A shippers’ coalition on Tuesday asked the White House to help restart stalled contract negotiations and said President Biden should be prepared to intervene to prevent a strike.
Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic threw the entire world and daily life into turmoil, its effects still ripple through the global supply chain long after shutdown laws have been lifted.
Trimble customers who gathered in Las Vegas got the big news that Platform Science is acquiring Trimble’s telematics business.
A shuttered California-based trucking company that once pulled intermodal containers out of the Port of Oakland has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation.
Boeing has notified employees of a hiring freeze and is considering furloughs in the coming weeks as experts predict significant cash loss for the company this quarter due to an ongoing machinist strike.
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week started Sunday, and businesses and organizations across the U.S. are partnering to show truckers some love.
Aaron Rudolf, who owns Rudy’s Performance Parts in Burlington, North Carolina, must pay $10 million in criminal and civil fines for an emissions defeat device scheme.
FreightWaves examines the International Longshoremen’s Association’s concern with port automation and its effects on global port competitiveness.
RXO announced Monday that it has completed the acquisition of freight broker Coyote Logistics.
Salvors began towing the Greek-flagged tanker Sounion, still burning from attacks by Houthi militia in late August. The vessel became a symbol of civilian shipping targets that have led container and other vessel operators to detour around the region.
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Platform Science have announced an agreement for Platform Science to acquire Trimble’s global transportation telematics business units.
Norfolk Southern, which has struggled to maintain consistent and reliable service in recent years, will no longer tolerate mediocre operational performance, new CEO Mark George says.
A former employee of Midwest Transport Inc. has filed a WARN Act lawsuit, alleging the trucking company failed to give a 60-day notice of a planned shutdown before laying off 650 employees, including 480 truck drivers.
German railway Deutsche Bahn is selling its Schenker logistics unit to DSV of Denmark in a deal that will create the world’s largest forwarder.
Radiant Logistics said some customers have moved freight deliveries up to avoid a potential dockworker strike or a possible change to U.S. trade policy.
The lanes are getting longer for autonomous trucks and the promise of greater profitability is predicted to follow.
Daimler Truck North America is the latest trucking-related company to get hit with a nuclear verdict.
Schenker has been sold, but not to the U.S. private equity group vying for control of the German logistics provider. Transport provider DSV of Denmark has emerged as the winning […]
Ancora placed a few of its people on the Norfolk Southern board in May, and that likely led to CEO Shaw’s ouster.
New bills in both the Senate and House of Representatives would upgrade the 45G tax credit for inflation and expand trackage covered under the program.
Norfolk Southern on Wednesday terminated the contracts of embattled CEO Alan Shaw and the railroad’s chief legal officer, Nabanita Nag, for having a consensual relationship in violation of company policy.
The International Longshoremen’s Association has adopted a resolute stance in negotiations with East Coast port employers from Maine to Houston. There’s speculation that sympathy work stoppages could spread to West Coast container gateways.
With the holiday season approaching, the Transportation Intermediaries Association has called for an urgent resolution to the labor dispute between International Longshoremen’s Association workers and their employers at the East and Gulf Coast ports.
As a possible strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association looms over U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports, here are five port strikes from around the globe that made history.
A driver who lost his job after taking a CBD product he thought didn’t have THC is about to argue before the Supreme Court that he should be able to sue the manufacturers under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Truckstop.com’s Brent Hutto discusses the company’s zero-tolerance policy toward fraud and its recent work with the FBI.
UPS said Tuesday it was buying two Germany-based cold chain logistics operators to add to its sprawling health care logistics footprint.
At Uber Freight’s Deliver conference, its founder and CEO announced same day and scheduled deliveries offerings, advanced tech features and said the company has reached $20 billion in freight under management.
Aifleet raised $16.6 million to help the company grow its operations and help truck drivers optimize their time.
China State Shipbuilding Corp. said it has received approval in principle for a liquefied natural gas dual-fuel vessel of 27,500 twenty-foot equivalent units, the largest boxships afloat.
With fraud on the rise, verifying carriers has become one of the top ways shippers can fight fraud on the front lines.
The Montreal Port Authority is spending more than $42 million to restore and upgrade the Pie-IX rail bridge, a project that will also help a port-based sugar refiner boost capacity.
This week in Borderlands: Wiliot chatbot would like a word about food supply chain safety; Maersk opens logistics warehouse in El Paso; Stotland Trucking expands operations in Texas; and Continental Tire plans $87M Fort Worth production facility.
FedEx Corp. announced a strategic alliance with Nimble Robotics on Thursday to scale FedEx Fulfillment with Nimble’s fully autonomous 3PL model.
An Illinois-based trucking and logistics company that contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail and had more than 480 drivers ceased operations abruptly Thursday, according to sources familiar with the closure.
ChargePoint cuts 200-plus jobs in second downsizing of 2024 after tough second quarter earnings report,
In the latest move to strengthen the largest U.S. container gateway, a key Port of Los Angeles terminal will receive $52 million to upgrade its on-dock rail capacity.
The Department of Labor has clawed back hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay owed by Transair, a Hawaiian cargo airline that is no longer flying.
Portex founder Brittany Ennix explains how logistics technology should be built for SMB shippers.
Regional and cultural factors can create a range of different terminology in maritime and freight. A standard vocabulary across the industry could streamline optimization, but how can it be done?
Radiant Logistics has acquired oil and gas transportation and logistics specialist Foundation Logistics & Services.
Supply chain SaaS company Descartes reported record quarterly results for the period ended July 31.
Some less-than-truckload carriers reported weaker tonnage trends in August but continued to capture increases in yields.
The Texas Supreme Court will hear an appeal by Werner Enterprises in a long-running, $100 million nuclear verdict case.
U.S. and Guatemalan authorities say they have dismantled a human smuggling enterprise in Guatemala responsible for the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio in 2022.
Less-than-truckload booking platform MyCarrier announced Wednesday it has acquired supply chain payments platform Curant.
Less-than-truckload carrier Saia is still recording volume growth even though a year has passed since Yellow Corp. closed and the comparisons have gotten tougher.
A soft macroeconomic environment has resulted in lighter shipments for ArcBest and a delay in the company’s freight swap.
A shareholder-backed bankruptcy plan for Yellow Corp. would satisfy all allowed unsecured claims and leave shareholders with a real estate investment trust to manage the remaining properties.
Christopher Carroll, 54, of Farmington, Missouri, was found guilty by a federal jury for fraudulently obtaining nearly $3 million in Paycheck Protection Program funds.
Moody’s reduced truck parts retailer FleetPride’s outlook to negative.
A new plan calls for public-private investment in the Port of Portland’s money-losing Terminal 6, the state’s only international container facility.
Driverless truck developers are looking to third-party validators to back their safety claims.
Atlanta-based JAS Worldwide, a global freight forwarder, confirmed Tuesday that it was targeted by a ransomware attack after experiencing technical disruptions, which affected its ability to operate and service its customers.
Newly-formed Jack Cooper LTL is rumored to be in talks to purchase less-than-truckload carrier Standard Forwarding.
A New York-based venture capital firm and European transport specialist are vying to acquire Schenker, the logistics unit of German national railway Deutsche Bahn, which could shake up the market for logistics services in the U.S.
A former executive at Polar Air Cargo received jail time as punishment for defrauding the company.
Despite peak season stress, supply chain bottlenecks failed to materialize during the recovery from the brief lockout of union employees by CN and CPKC.
A former trucking company owner from Acworth, Georgia, reported to prison Thursday, a day after a federal judge denied a motion to postpone his surrender following his sentencing in a Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme.
Minnesota’s federally mandated State Freight Plan identifies key areas for investment in the statewide transportation system to ensure goods movement that is safe, efficient and sustainable.
While the company continues to deny any wrongdoing, TuSimple has filed to settle its federal fraud case.
Mexico registered a record $31 billion in foreign direct investment in the first half of the year.
A nationwide strike by port workers in India threatened further stresses to a global supply chain struggling with congestion and delays.
As nearshoring increases the volume of products carried across the U.S. border, seizures of illegal narcotics from freight are also on the rise.
Corey Louis Hendrickson, 46, a former mayor of Willard, Missouri, and fleet dispatcher for Prime Inc., was sentenced to three years in federal prison for a scheme in which he used the names and Social Security numbers of drivers to steal money.
The Port of New York-New Jersey was the latest gateway to benefit from the early peak shipping season as importers stocked up on holiday inventory to circumvent a host of supply chain issues.
The railroads got what they wanted in Canada’s contract dispute: binding arbitration.
In today’s volatile economy, it is vital to choose a factoring partner that can offer the financial support and expertise needed to navigate the complexities of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
BMO’s transportation group, a big lender to trucking, showed even more third-quarter credit deterioration in the sector.
It could take the two largest Canadian railroads a week or more to recover from the effects of a shutdown that briefly stalled billions in freight including transborder trade with the United States.
