<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>While companies that use the crossing at Eagle Pass are seeking to reassure existing and potential customers, competitors using Laredo, where no closures have occurred, are wasting no opportunity to talk up that route’s relative reliability. </p></div>

While companies that use the crossing at Eagle Pass are seeking to reassure existing and potential customers, competitors using Laredo, where no closures have occurred, are wasting no opportunity to talk up that route’s relative reliability.

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<div><p>As intermodal providers jockey to win more business in Mexico in 2024, part of the strategy has become touting the reliability — or lack thereof — of the border crossing options in the aftermath of the recent migrant-related closures of...

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>The contract with South Korean shipyard Hanwha Ocean pushes the global order book for LNG-fueled vessels to more than 6.8 million TEUs. </p></div>

The contract with South Korean shipyard Hanwha Ocean pushes the global order book for LNG-fueled vessels to more than 6.8 million TEUs.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Developments linked to multiple energy sources — including data center-driven gas, nuclear, LNG, and offshore oil and gas exploration — are among projects in the works for major EPCs Fluor, KBR, TechnipFMC, and Worley.</p></div>

Developments linked to multiple energy sources — including data center-driven gas, nuclear, LNG, and offshore oil and gas exploration — are among projects in the works for major EPCs Fluor, KBR, TechnipFMC, and Worley.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p><i>Journal of Commerce</i> data on shipper-paid spot rates supports suggestions the truckload market flattened in the late summer, but it may resume its climb shortly. </p></div>

Journal of Commerce data on shipper-paid spot rates supports suggestions the truckload market flattened in the late summer, but it may resume its climb shortly.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>There is a good business case for buying assets that will reduce costs and increase efficiency, but the cycle that generates the cash for those deals doesn’t last forever, writes Jeremy Masters. </p></div>

There is a good business case for buying assets that will reduce costs and increase efficiency, but the cycle that generates the cash for those deals doesn’t last forever, writes Jeremy Masters.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Shippers should expect more pressure on truck capacity as Homeland Security and the Justice Department join DOT in shutting down CDL schools and targeting illegal drivers. </p></div>

Shippers should expect more pressure on truck capacity as Homeland Security and the Justice Department join DOT in shutting down CDL schools and targeting illegal drivers.

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