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National drayage company adds third company in its drive to expand through organic growth and acquisitions.

Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Canadian National Railway, and Canadian Pacific Railway are expanding their assets and capacity to prepare for the peak season of 2018 after a troublesome peak last year.

Roadrunner, which restated several years’ earnings, said its turnaround plan will satisfy shippers and investors. And the company has these three factors as tailwinds: shippers stuck with them, truck demand is strong, and there is a market for freight that is a day slower but considerably cheaper.

Not all shipping hubs are water-based. Land-locked Belarus is strategically positioned, geographically, to become a major transit hub for container cargo transported from China to the European Union via train and truck.

The port began seeing a build-up of cargo December at its rail terminals – known as ExpressRail – after bad weather triggered delays in the Midwest.

These days, shippers want freight delivered in 'a New York minute,' and regional LTL carrier A. Duie Pyle is adding a terminal in the Bronx, New York, while reconfiguring its local network, to get closer to Big Apple customers.

US shippers and other e-commerce parties take note: freight demand, still strong in January, will raise contract rates in the coming quarters, truckload carrier Werner Enterprises has warned.

Member companies that have invested in costly new trucks want the April 1 deadline enforced, saying they will be at a competitive disadvantage versus those who are allowed to continue driving older trucks.

Expected and unexpected challenges have marked the start of the electronic logging device mandate era — magnifying shipper concerns about inadequate truck capacity and rising rates.

The upgrade to the line is driven by the long-term outlook for refined product exports to Mexico, the company said.

The Mexican Federal Competition Commission, the report-issuing body, declined to comment on the release date but issued a statement saying the agency is still going through the steps set out by Mexican regulations for such investigations.

The authority sent a missive to port users outlining the problem and said that it is working with CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway to clear the rail backlog.

Truckers seek “dual transactions,” or revenue moves in both directions and at LA-LB, technology will play a key role in achieving that goal, which will also reduce turn times — getting cargo to its destination quicker.

Although the evidence is not inconvertible yet, the number of factors suggesting the current truck capacity shortage is not merely a cyclical downturn are starting to add up.

US freight rates are set to rise not just this year, but into the near future, analysts predict. However, there is an upside for shippers to the strengthening US/global economies that are pushing up freight rates.

The partnerships will allow Netherlands-based Mammoet to provide service in the Spanish market.

In the second half of 2017, many logistics firms struggled to keep up with rising carrier prices and had difficulty passing those increases along to shippers.

The California appellate court's decision, which is good news for beneficial cargo owners, overturns all but one environmental roadblock erected by a lower court’s ruling in 2016.

Service metrics are improving, but can CSX win back shipper trust while sticking to its late CEO's plan for precision scheduled railroading?

The complex rate on rail services between China and Europe has encouraged greater use of service contracts by shippers using the land option.

The acquisition of Direct Right Cartage, which occurs as Canadian demand for intermodal climbs, helps expand Manitoulin Transport's links between Western and Central Canada.

DCLI now owns, leases, or manages approximately 136,000 marine chassis, as well as approximately 80,000 domestic chassis, for a total of more than 216,000 units.

An unexpected diversion of freight to rails in the wake of last year's hurricanes will cost the trucking company.

From air freight to ocean to trucking, e-commerce is exerting palpable influence on the various transport markets.

A new French rail link connecting a port in the Mediterranean and one in North Europe will be launched in March to target the high-volume Swiss market.

In particular, the FMCSA will focus on accelerating tests of autonomous vehicle technologies, believing they have the potential to significantly reduce crashes.

Businesses will be watching spot rates closely in the next few weeks to see if demand and capacity move back toward an equilibrium.

From its roots in the chaotic trucking world of the 1970s, Johnston built the OOIDA into an organization of about 160,000 members operating more than 300,000 trucks.

The port said container dwell times are down to an average of three days, and a return to its historical level is imminent.

It is crucial that intermodal continues to explore non-traditional ways to knit together an ever-growing network of dispersed terminals in order to meet the challenge of this new, more demanding supply chain era.

New ocean and rail services mark the return of the Port of Portland, Oregon, to regular container handling.

Thousands of Canadian truckers who cross the US border daily are required to use ELDs, but there are some differences between the US rule and the Canadian proposal.

The hurricanes that struck the United States last year provided a teachable moment for shippers regarding supply chain structure and management.

The intermodal sector has the feel of a certain US film, which is fine, if a disrupter follows a longtime tactic that led to sector innovation.

When it comes to predictive analytics, there are literally countless ways to arrive at predictions, but not all predictions are the same.

The extremely frigid weather will affect everything in the United States from shipping schedules to the availability of truck drivers — and that will have an impact on costs.

The axiom, "Where you stand depends on where you sit," applies regarding the views on how transportation will fare in 2018.

Beneficial cargo owners see the advantage of warehouse space closer to the port, but that locale is not without a downside.

Extended, frigid weather and high freight demand have collided in the US heartland’s freight hub, squeezing an already tight drayage market.

The company said the line, dubbed the Kathmandu Express, is designed to meet Nepal's growing import trade.