The following are prepared responses to questions posed to panelists participating on the “Future of Freight” panel organized by the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals San Francisco Roundtable on Nov. 8 at the Uber headquarters in San Francisco. The responses were developed by the JOC editorial team and include commentary from the lead JOC […]
With the start of a new federal rule requiring digital tracking of the number of driving hours truckers log only weeks away, drivers critical of the regulation are launching sporadic protests and hoping for a last-minute congressional reprieve.
This is not an over-the-road truck. This truck suits line-haul – routes that run between a company’s terminals, like from one regional Wal-Mart distribution center to another. When Musk made the case for a 20-percent savings over a diesel truck, he based the numbers on a 100-mile trip – fifty miles out, fifty miles back. […]
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending November 18, 2017. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 554,066 carloads and intermodal units, up 1.2 percent compared with the same week last year.
The rise of e-commerce is rapidly changing the logistics industry, but is continuing to provide challenges that must be overcome. In the first session of the Air & Sea Cargo Americas conference on 1 November titled ‘Trade trends in the Americas’, SeaLand chief executive officer (CEO), Craig Mygatt; Estafeta international business manager, Diana Najera; UPS […]
Snowballing cross-border e-commerce and high levels of emergency shipments are driving up demand for air cargo, but some shippers’ intensifying need for speed to market is being threatened by limited capacity on planes in peak periods and at airport hubs. The industry’s busiest time of the year begins now, and shippers are scrambling for space […]
This might be the last record-breaking year for U.S. cash held overseas. A new report from Moody’s Investors Service Inc. expects offshore cash reserves to expand 8% to $1.4 trillion by the end of 2017. That’s nearly three-quarters of all cash projected to make it into U.S. non-financial company coffers by year end. The record-setting […]
The holiday season is always a pressure cooker for retailers, but this year promises to be more stressful than usual. With foot traffic dwindling and more consumers shopping online, brick-and-mortar chains are having to fight harder for customers. Many U.S. retailers also are laboring under a mountain of debt, turning the season into a high-stakes […]
Mexico is proposing to limit access to government contracts for U.S. firms in a sign that America’s NAFTA partners are willing to strike back against what they see as the hardline proposals by the Trump administration. Mexican negotiators are seeking to cap the value of procurement-tenders awarded to American companies to the same amount that […]
On a sunny afternoon in early November, several dozen software engineers and designers are anxiously preparing for a test flight of the EHang 184, a compact metal and glass pod outfitted with eight propellers. The self-steering, single-passenger craft could begin buzzing through the skies of Dubai as early as next year.
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