More than 3,000 Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. workers walked off the job, threatening a wider disruption in freight traffic and setting up the first major labor test for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The strike by conductors and locomotive engineers began at 10 p.m. Eastern time, Teamsters Canada Rail Conference said in an e-mail statement […]
Airfreight traffic growth was back on track in April after an “abrupt” slowdown in performance during March. The latest figures from IATA show that freight tonne kms (FTK) increased by 4.1% in April, compared with a “sharp fall” in growth during March to 1.8% – a 23-month low. The end of the restocking cycle, poor […]
Maersk Line has followed its 2M Alliance partner Mediterranean Shipping Company in introducing an emergency bunker surcharge from June 1 on all corridors as rising fuel prices ramp up unit costs and erode profitability. The Danish carrier will impose a $60 per TEU and $120 per FEU bunker surcharge on all cargo globally, effective June […]
U.S. economic growth slowed slightly more than initially thought in the first quarter amid downward revisions to inventory investment and consumer spending, but a robust labor market and income tax cuts are likely to boost activity this year.
There’s a clock that regulates supply chains, and lately it is losing time, not just by a beat, but hours and days. That throws off sales forecasts and orders, lengthens transit times, and leads to missed deliveries and a pervasive imbalance in assets, people, and goods throughout the economy. The cost of this loss of […]
US shippers stung by rampant truckload rate increases are looking for alternate routes to customers, but they’re finding capacity is tight and prices high no matter where they look. Higher intermodal spot rates, combined with rail capacity limits and service issues, is turning some freight that would otherwise shift to rail back to the highways, […]
Orders for long-lasting durable goods fell in April, but a closely watched proxy of business investment moved higher. And although sales of existing homes declined, consumer sentiment remains strong. The Commerce Department reported on Friday new orders for durable goods fell 1.7% in April from the month before, as demand for new transportation equipment, mainly […]
Truck tonnage jumped 9.5% in April compared with the same period a year ago, according to American Trucking Associations’ monthly for-hire truck tonnage index. During the first four months of 2018, ATA’s seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index rose 8%, topping the 3.8% rise seen in the same period in 2017.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending May 19, 2018. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 546,415 carloads and intermodal units, up 3.6 percent compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week ending May 19 were 261,273 carloads, up 1.2 […]
The price of improving rail access to U.S. ports is steep, but the price of not improving access may be even costlier. A recent survey by the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) found members identified a need in excess of $20 billion during the next decade for multimodal port and rail access, but cited […]
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