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Top US trucking lobby outlines wishes for Trump administration
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The American Trucking Associations hopes for a bigger role in crafting 'data-driven' regulations under a Trump administration.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Chennai port extends rail incentives as conversion effort sputters
India Special Correspondent |
Chennai Port Trust has extended a plan to lower rail costs.
International ports
International rail
Transport providers hold firm against attacks on NAFTA, trade pacts
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Shippers have "more questions than answers" about the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is increasingly likely to be rewritten under President-elect Trump.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Rail News
Trump-fueled regulatory rollback could ease truck capacity pinch
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The Trump administration’s plan for a broad-based regulatory rollback could shorten the duration of any future truck capacity shortfall.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
LTL
Drayage providers face Hanjin-related detention, storage costs
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Cameron Roberts, partner at Roberts & Kehagiaras, offers ways drayage and trucking companies can protect themsleves from financial and legal exposure to Hanjin Shipping assets.
Container lines
Trucking News
Drayage
Marine terminals
Storms, Hanjin affect US spot truck rates, volumes
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Was October's truckload spot market spike an atypical surge or sign of increased underlying demand?
Truckload
Waberer’s swerves European crises to grow profit, revenue
JOC Staff |
Hungarian truckload company Waberer’s successfully swerved the negative impacts of Europe’s refugee crisis and Brexit, the company said.
Truckload
Larry Kaufman, 80, dies, covered rail industry for JOC
JOC Staff |
Lawrence H “Larry” Kaufman, who provided authoritative reporting and analysis of railroads and transportation for The Journal of Commerce and other publications during a diverse career spanning more than 50 years, died Tuesday in Golden, Colorado.
Rail News
North-American rail
New contract system awaits Russian rail, road shippers
Eugene Gerden, Russia Special Correspondent |
Russian auto and railway carriers will soon adopt a new contracting system meant to provide shippers with long-term pricing certainty and increase infrastructure investment, but some shippers are concerned about the new system.
International rail
Trucking News
US shippers still watching, waiting for truck capacity 'crunch'
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The much-rumored truckload capacity crunch hasn't been canceled but simply postponed for a year or less by low economic growth, speakers at the 2016 JOC Inland Distribution Conference said.
Truckload
US shipper outlook diverges on volume, rates
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
US shippers surveyed by the JOC, NASSTRAC, and Truckstop.com expect slightly higher freight volumes over the next six months, but mostly flat rates — except truckload rates.
Truckload
LTL
Truck brokers
US shippers see no near-term truckload capacity ‘crunch’
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
A survey finds most shippers believe truckload capacity is now “adequate” or in a “rough equilibrium,” and expect it to stay that way.
Truckload
JNPT efforts to grow share of intermodal rail falling short
India Special Correspondent |
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has struggled to increase the share of rail used to get containers out of its facilities despite a slew of efforts to do so.
International ports
Rail News
International rail
Russia subsidizes containerized imports railed from China
Eugene Gerden, Russia Special Correspondent |
The Russian government’s decision to subsidize imports from China arriving via rail will cut costs and result in faster transit times.
International rail
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
BNSF revenue falls on intermodal volume drop
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
The so-called “freight recession” continues to weigh down demand, volume, and pricing.
North-American rail
Truck, rail pricing power may shift in early 2017
William B. Cassidy and Reynolds Hutchins |
There are signs that shippers expect truckload and domestic intermodal rates to creep higher in early 2017.
Intermodal providers
Trucking News
Truckload firms look to asset-light units to get through downturn
Dustin Braden, Shipper Relationship Manager |
Truckload companies USA Truck and Celadon Group are not waiting for a recovery in the truckload market to materialize and pull them out of the red, instead working to get into the black with a stronger focus on their asset-light brokerage businesses.
Truckload
ArcBest gains shipments, but profit plunges
Dustin Braden, Shipper Relationship Manager |
Lower fuel surcharges, lighter shipments, acquisitions costs blamed for lower profit at less-than-truckload, logistics company.
LTL
US trucking firms add jobs ahead of holiday season
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Trucking is doing better at hiring workers than previous employment data suggested, but still is bumping against a "hiring ceiling."
Trucking labor
LTL
Roadrunner expedited business pads TL, LTL decline
Dustin Braden, Shipper Relationship Manager |
Roadrunner’s push into the expedited shipping market over the last two years provided the trucking company an airbag to protect against crashing truckload and less-than-truckload volumes and rates in the third quarter.
LTL
North American intermodal quarterly decline bodes poorly for year-end
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
It’s a sign that the so-called “freight recession” that’s softened demand, volume, and freight rates may outlast the calendar year.
Rail News
US heavy truck registrations plunge by double-digits
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
IHS Automotive data reveal a significant decline in new commercial truck registrations, especially for heavy trucks.
Truckload
E-commerce fires more than one engine at XPO Logistics
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The benefits of rising e-commerce demand are lifting revenue, profit at multiple units of XPO Logistics, from last-mile to LTL.
Logistics Technology News
Trucking News
US shippers urged to step up planning for ELD mandate
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The ELD mandate's impact on available truck capacity isn't the only thing shippers should worry about.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
LTL
Truckload
Falling used truck values slow truck capacity cuts
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
When freight demand is low and rates are hard to maintain, who wants to buy a used truck? That's a problem truckload carriers face as they try to reduce their capacity to bolster pricing.
Truckload
US court ELD decision sounds warning bell for shippers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
After a US court slapped down a challenge to the federal electronic logging mandate for truck drivers, shippers need to plan for dealing with the rule.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
NY-NJ port takes aim at congestion, Midwest market via rail
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
Officials at the Port of New York and New Jersey hope a record monthly volume of rail cargo is just the start of the payoff from years of intermodal investment that seeks to give the port a competitive edge as ever-larger ships arrive on the East Coast.
North American ports
Rail News
LTL trucker YRC Freight expands network, adds profits
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Despite a "soft industrial backdrop" and lower fuel surcharges and revenue, less-than-truckload carrier YRC Freight raised profits nearly 25 percent year-over-year in the third quarter and opened a new terminal.
LTL
Hub: No end in sight for weak US domestic intermodal margins
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
The Oak Brook, Illinois-based trucking and transportation provider posted record-breaking domestic intermodal volume but tightening profit margins in their third-quarter earnings.
Intermodal providers
UPS adds capacity as e-commerce demand builds
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
As e-commerce volumes rise, UPS is adding more capacity.
Air Cargo Forwarder News
Trucking News
LTL
Truck brokers
XPO sells US truckload division to TransForce for $558 million
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The acquisition gives Canada's largest trucking operator a bigger US presence and route into Mexico and helps XPO pay down debt.
Truckload
In merger, TTS, Sunteck plug into shipper technology needs
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Rapid changes in technology are reshaping the logistics landscape and spurring the growth of freight management services, including the formation of nearly $1 billion firm Sunteck/TTS Holdings.
Truckload
LTL
Truck brokers
Container Corp. of India expands time-guaranteed rail operation
India Special Correspondent |
India is pushing hard to get shippers to move more cargo via the country's railroads.
International rail
LTL trucker Saia to expand into Northeast in 2017
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Cranking up profits and gaining freight, the multiregional less-than-truckload carrier looks to fill one of the last large gaps in its coverage.
LTL
Truckload rate decay chips away C.H. Robinson profits
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Plunging truckload rates proved a dead weight on profits at C.H. Robinson Worldwide in the third quarter.
Logistics Technology News
Air Cargo
Trucking News
LTL
NS bucks industry trend by growing intermodal volume
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
NS is the first and only Class I railroad to report an uptick in domestic and international intermodal business this earnings season.
North-American rail
CN says it’s holding to intermodal rate increases despite volume drop
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
Executives at the Montreal-based railway said they are dedicated to keeping pricing above inflation, even as the marketplace becomes more competitive on the roads and rails as demand slips and capacity rises.
North-American rail
Swift slices more capacity as pricing pressure persists
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The largest US truckload carrier cut more than 1,600 tractors from its overal fleet in the past year, but added 130 trucks to its dedicated business, which increased revenue and profit.
Truckload
Baltimore trumpets need for double-stack rail access to port
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
Maryland governor pledges to reapply for federal funding for Howard Street tunnel.
North-American rail
Russian containerized rail shippers face steep rate hikes
Eugene Gerden, Russia Special Correspondent |
The fee will further drive up surface transportation costs in Russia, where trucking rates are also set to jump.
International rail
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