Carriers and freight forwarders have been working to inform shippers affected by the blockage of the Suez Canal over the last two days. As the major trade artery remains jammed,…
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The U.S. import boom has already shattered the forecasts and pushed the global supply chain to the brink. The guessing game now is: When will it end? Amit Mehrotra,…
Class 8 net truck orders climbed 3% last month to 44,000 units, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by FTR, and surged 209% over February 2020. February 2021 was…
Sustained demand will keep volume high deep into 2021 and fill all available ocean capacity, so delaying contract talks with carriers could leave shippers stuck on the volatile spot markets….
President Biden said he hopes the U.S. would be back to normal “by this time next year,” Bloomberg reported, but said he’d been cautioned not to provide a specific date…
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledged the lack of sustainable transportation financing sources, but suggested an increase to the federal fuel tax rate would not offer a long-term solution. Buttigieg…
Contract rates exceeded spot rates for the first time in seven months during the last week in January, according to DAT, breaking a remarkable run for the spot truckload market….
COVID-19 infection rates are falling across the country more than a year after the first case of the novel coronavirus was detected in the U.S. But supply chain difficulties continue…
The formation of maquiladoras, factories mostly located in areas close to the U.S. border, kicked off an era of vibrant manufacturing activity in Mexico in the 1960s. For years afterward, they…
With tens of millions of doses already delivered and millions of doses waiting in the wings for delivery, we reached out to a few industry onlookers to see what the…