17 Sep Florence Flooding Spreads as Storm Heads Northeast WILMINGTON, N.C. — With Wilmington cut off from the rest of North Carolina by still-rising floodwaters from Florence, officials plan to airlift food and water to the city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes swamped by swollen rivers. Read more...
17 Sep Medium-Duty Sales on Track for Gains in 2018 U.S. retail sales of medium-duty trucks inched higher overall in August, WardsAuto.com reported as the lighter weight classes led the way, and a leading market analyst raised his forecast for 2018. Read more...
17 Sep Transport Topics Podcasts Check out the latest podcast episodes of our RoadSigns and LiveOnWeb programs. Episode 4 of RoadSigns, "Putting the Supply Chain on the Blockchain," is now available. Read more...
17 Sep Opinion: A Sensible Way to Lower the CDL Age Requirement For interstate carriers, allowing younger drivers to earn a CDL would vastly widen the pool of drivers and limit the loss of candidates to other careers. And that’s why some legislators are seeking a solution. Read more...
17 Sep GlobalTranz Offers to Buy AFN Logistics GlobalTranz Enterprises said it has agreed to acquire Chicago-based freight brokerage firm AFN, a move designed to boost the company’s share of the market for third-party logistics services. Read more...
17 Sep Georgia Opens Second Inland Port The newest inland port in the United States is now open in northwestern Georgia. The new Appalachian Regional Port in Murray County is connected by rail to the Port of Savannah, and is expected to ease congestion at the port and reduce truck traffic on roadways by shifting the handoff of international shipping containers to an area with more space. Read more...
17 Sep Growth Continues for Global Freight Carriers The world’s biggest freight carriers all got a little bigger this year as demand for transportation surged across the globe. Here's the 2018 Top 50 Global Freight Carrier rankings. Read more...
17 Sep Ports, Carriers Step Up Efforts to Move Cargo More Efficiently A surge in global shipping volume is adding urgency to efforts to increase the efficiency of cargo handling at seaports and inland waterways. Read more...
17 Sep How Logistics Firms Can Compete in the Age of Amazon The global transportation services market was estimated at about $5.8 trillion last year, and there is much at stake for legacy freight forwarding, logistics and supply-chain management companies. Read more...
17 Sep Rail Profits Rise, But Intermodal Growth Not Certain As motor carriers enjoy the fruits of the tight freight environment, railroads are continuing their push to boost earnings while they adjust to a market that increasingly is shifting toward intermodal. Read more...