Many freight transportation and logistics stakeholders are saying that “flat is the new growth” when it comes to assessing the state of overall volumes.
August 2016 NAFTA Truck Freight Values Up 3.4% Over a Year Ago
Air and truck transportation modes carried more cross-border freight by value in August 2016 compared to August 2015, resulting in a 0.7 percent increase to $93.1 billion in the total current dollar value of freight moved.
Spot Truckload Rates Steady as Available Freight Increases
While there were slightly more loads and trucks on the spot market during the week ending Oct. 22, according to DAT Solutions and its network of load boards, rates moved little from the week before.
Cargo theft up in Q3: CargoNet
Cargo theft is up when comparing this third-quarter to the same time last year, according to CargoNet. The cargo theft reporting company claims that in Q3, there were 447 reported incidents, which represents a 2% increase from last year’s Q3 results.
AAR Reports Weekly Rail Traffic for The Week Ending October 22, 2016
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending October 22, 2016. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 544,092 carloads and intermodal units, down 1.7 percent compared with the same week last year.
Tighter Utilization Boosts Intermodal Competitive Index
FTR’s Intermodal Competitive Index rebounded in August to a reading of 2.16, easing some of the concerns of the previous month’s weak reading, according to FTR. The updated August reading was not particularly strong, but the rebound from July’s low confirmed FTR’s suspicions that the number of work days in July adversely affected the index. […]
Report: Transportation is just as important to food safety as in-house operations
Manufacturers looking to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act have undergone a number of changes to make their operations and ingredient sourcing safer, but transportation of products and ingredients is also key to the safety of the food supply, according to a new report from Lockton.
Intermodal Transport: The Little Engine That Could
After two years of steady acceleration, intermodal transportation in North America hit a slowdown in 2016. Intermodal volume in the second quarter of 2016 fell by 6.1 percent compared with the same quarter in 2015, according to the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA).
AAR Reports Weekly Rail Traffic for The Week Ending October 15, 2016
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending October 15, 2016.For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 531,936 carloads and intermodal units, down 4.2 percent compared with the same week last year.
FTR’s Intermodal Competitive Index Rebounds in August
FTR’s Intermodal Competitive Index (ICI) rebounded from July to a reading of 2.16 in August. The updated August reading – while certainly not particularly strong – does ease some of the concerns that the weak July reading created and, in some measure, confirms suspicions that the number of work days in July impacted the index […]