29 Jan New Hawaii Cargo Shipping Service is a No-Go A much-touted plan to start a new Hawaii ocean cargo transportation service is dead in the water. Read more...
29 Jan Iowa Tops ARTBA List of States With Deficient Bridges Iowa is home to the most structurally deficient bridges, while the District of Columbia contains the fewest, according to a recent report from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. Read more...
29 Jan Rolling Strong Picks Moblico for Coaching, Rewards Program on New Mobile App Driver-wellness program provider Rolling Strong has chosen mobile technology firm Moblico to deploy its coaching and rewards program to its new mobile app. Read more...
29 Jan First Cryptocurrency Freight Deal Takes Russian Wheat to Turkey The first freight deal settled in Bitcoin was executed last month on a vessel carrying wheat from top shipper Russia to Turkey, according to Prime Shipping Foundation, the venture behind the transaction. Read more...
29 Jan Consumer Spending Rose in December, Saving Rate Dipped U.S. consumer spending rose at a solid pace in December after an upwardly revised advance a month earlier as shoppers splurged during the holiday season. While incomes also rose, the saving rate fell to a fresh 12-year low. Read more...
29 Jan Amazon Expands Delivery Trial That Could Hurt FedEx, UPS Amazon.com Inc. is expanding a service launched to make more groceries, cleaning supplies and other products available for quick delivery directly from merchants without overwhelming the e-commerce giant’s warehouses with additional inventory, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. Read more...
29 Jan Georgia Ports Orders Eight Cranes for Savannah Intermodal Railyard Expansion The Georgia Ports Authority has ordered eight rail-mounted gantry cranes from Konecranes as part of a recently started construction project to expand the Port of Savannah’s on-dock intermodal yard. Read more...
29 Jan Demand for RNG Surged in 2017, Clean Energy Fuels Reports Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced that sales of Redeem, its renewable natural gas product, grew 32% in 2017 to 79 million gallons compared with 60 million gallons in 2016. Read more...
28 Jan Editorial: A Moment to Come Together As the old saying goes, there is strength in numbers. And some of what leaders on Capitol Hill are saying suggests now is a good time for various factions across the trucking industry to come together toward common goals. Read more...
26 Jan Port of Virginia Gets Preliminary OK on Dredging Project The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has preliminarily approved a project to dredge Virginia’s Norfolk Harbor from 50 feet to 55 feet, but a final decision on whether to fund it will come this summer. Read more...