16 Feb Fewer Americans Than Forecast File for Unemployment Insurance Fewer Americans than forecast filed applications last week for unemployment benefits, underscoring a vibrant labor market. Read more...
16 Feb Housing Starts Exceed Estimates After a Stronger December Builders started work on more U.S. homes than forecast in January after an upward revision to starts in the prior month, a sign construction was on a steady path entering 2017. Read more...
15 Feb Underinvestment in Freight Infrastructure Will Hurt Economy, Schneider CEO Says WASHINGTON - The country's freight transportation network must be modernized and expanded to handle the projected increase in freight volume, Schneider International Inc.'s top executive told a Senate panel Feb. 15. Read more...
15 Feb Port of Vancouver Approves New CEO's $202,000 Compensation Package Julianna Marler's role as CEO of the Port of Vancouver was cemented Feb. 14 when the board of commissioners voted 2-1 to approve the terms of her employment. Read more...
15 Feb Shipping Industry Calls for Exemption from Carbon Market Reform The global shipping industry has urged the European Union to drop the sector's inclusion in proposals adopted Feb. 15 to reform the bloc's carbon market, saying it risks distorting trade and international efforts to cut the sector's emissions. Read more...
15 Feb Analysis: Will Amazon Revolutionize Shipping? For manufacturers who have to get products to you, shipping remains a troublesome, inefficient and stubbornly analog business. Read more...
15 Feb Missouri Trucking Company Taps School 700 Miles Away For CDL Training When officials from R&R Trucking were looking for quality commercial driver's license training, they looked long and far. Read more...
15 Feb Port of Baltimore Sets Cargo Record in 2016 The port of Baltimore handled a record 10.1 million tons of general cargo at its public terminals in 2016, a 5% increase from the previous year, officials announced Feb. 14. Read more...
15 Feb Q&A With Truckstop.com CEO Paris Cole Since Scott Moscrip founded Internet Truckstop in his basement 22 years ago, the company that became Truckstop.com has grown quietly. Its lack of heraldry is partially deliberate, CEO Paris Cole says, but toiling in little New Plymouth, Idaho, a town of 1,513, doesn't draw much attention, either. Read more...
15 Feb Daseke to Be Publicly Traded KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - Daseke Inc. will become a publicly traded company on Feb. 28, costing $10 per share, which will raise capital for more acquisitions during 2017, the company announced at the Stifel 2017 Transportation & Logistics Conference here in Key Biscayne, Florida. Read more...