Logistics and transportation companies are not just worried about meeting changing customer demands, they are worried about meeting demand, period. Executives at a major logistics conference here say US freight demand is already hitting near-peak levels. Manufacturing output, housing and construction, and consumer spending are all contributing to surging freight volumes on domestic US lanes, […]
A major trucking-related organization is banding together with 29 other organizations and one business to continue its assault on the mandated installation of electronic logging devices. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Wednesday announced the formation of a coalition to back a two-year delay of the Dec. 18 ELD mandate compliance deadline. The coalition supports a […]
A strong surge in truck freight demand in the United States redefined the dog days of August and set US shippers on a route toward tighter capacity and higher prices this autumn. Truck volume as measured by the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA’s) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index leaped 7.1 percent in August from July, and 8.2 […]
There’s almost no chance that the electronic logging device, or ELD, mandate won’t start Dec. 18 as planned. That’s the consensus of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, which is charged with enforcing the rule. CVSA is working to get law enforcement up to speed before the rule kicks in. ELD training of approximately 13,000 commercial […]
Blockchain, a technology that stores incorruptible blocks of information across a shared digital network, could revolutionize the future of trucking and logistics by creating a new system of completing transactions, tracking shipments and managing fleets. Blockchain is a shared, distributed ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has unveiled its first report on data measuring the rail industry’s progress in manufacturing and modifying rail cars that transport flammable liquids. Prepared by the department’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the report is required under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015. The bureau prepared the report […]
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending September 23, 2017, which set a new record for intermodal traffic in both the U.S. and Canada. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 548,204 carloads and intermodal units, up 1.6 percent compared with the same week last […]
There has been a decisive eastward shift in world aviation, says Airports Council International (ACI) in the latest edition of its Emerging Aviation Market Index, which tracks 19 high growth emerging markets that have a significant critical mass of passenger and air cargo throughput, showed that countries such as India, Indonesia and Vietnam have achieved […]
August’s double-digit airfreight volume growth at Singapore Changi Airport is yet another indicator of good news for the airfreight industry, where results, so far, for the month have reflected growing demand for air cargo. Airfreight throughput at the airport rose 10.7 percent, year-over-year, in August to 180,590 tonnes.
Beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) face tougher service contract negotiations on east-west trade lanes that are “diametrically opposed” to the relative ease they have enjoyed the last two years. Philip Damas, operational head of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, said the new environment holds fewer carrier options, tighter space availability, possibly less frequent sailings, and, ultimately, higher […]
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