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The COVID-19 crisis will push the freight transportation industry closer to a future where digitalization is nearly omnipresent, automation is ingrained, and logistics has adapted to slower trade as the economic windfalls of globalization fade further.

The largest US logistics provider is prioritizing technology spending as the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates why more automation and digitization is needed.

It has taken three years for ONE to sail into the black, with the carrier able to hold on to its profitability through a turbulent end to its financial year.

The revenue and volume contribution by Panalpina, acquired last August, gave DSV a welcome boost in the first quarter as the coronavirus began to drag down demand.

Many US shippers and truckload carriers are putting off contract talks after the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted them in mid-stride.

Norfolk Southern Railway insists that no matter how far truck rates fall, it will not chase the market down by providing unsustainable rates to shippers, but rather focus on innovative ideas such as mixed trains.

First quarter volume declined at China’s largest carrier, but it was a strong result considering a container shipping environment that began to deteriorate in March.

When the economy begins to recover, shippers will face higher prices, fewer options, and shortages of capacity due to a large reduction in truck drivers and motor carrier operators.

Even when air cargo demand for urgent medical supplies drops off, there is no certainty that recession-hit consumers will resume spending, and if they do, capacity will still be tight as passenger fleets remain grounded.

The shift of Maersk Line’s South American services from Global Container Terminals’ Staten Island facility to sister company’s APM Terminals’ facility in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, highlights the cost-cutting pressures terminals face

The US Federal Maritime Commission is signaling to the industry that the fairness of detention and demurrage fees should be viewed through a lens of whether they encourage the pickup of import containers and return of empties.

The COVID-19 pandemic has flipped UPS’s business, with nearly 70 percent of package volume now residential. That means more mileage, more stops, and more costs.

The race to provide the most complete set of tools to manage the interface of container terminals and drayage is heating up, evidenced by Advent eModal linking with a drayage optimization software provider.

Carriers continue to be successful in their capacity management strategies, preventing a rate decline despite a sharp reduction in demand and a steep drop in fuel prices.

Just as airlines have been able to price passenger seats by demand, carriers see similar potential in adjusting slot rates based on seasonality, supply and demand on a specific sailing, and costs associated with a specific shipment or customer.

A steep loss in volume will make the second quarter one to forget for the world’s largest ocean forwarder, which expects a recovery to begin in June.

Intermarine will serve as exclusive commercial agent in North America for United Heavy Lift, though UHL ships are not expected to operate in Intermarine's liner services.

Trucking companies large and small are focused on getting through the next month or two, after which they hope freight volumes will begin to recover. But that recovery may be a long one.

Containers shipped from China after factories reopened in March have now arrived at European ports, but there is little volume that will follow, at least for the next three months.

From a flexibility perspective, new-Panamax vessels allow carriers to deploy the largest ships able to traverse the Panama Canal while still benefiting from economies of scale.

Dutch carrier Spliethoff expands its multipurpose/heavy-lift fleet and opens an office in Singapore.

The need to widen the channel gained urgency last year when a group of non-container businesses that rely on the port expressed concerns their cargoes would be squeezed by the increasing size and number of container ships moving through Houston.

DP World’s rollout this week of an online freight booking platform for forwarders continues its campaign toward broadening its reach in containerized supply chains.

Carriers will blank dozens of sailings in the trans-Pacific as they anticipate a double-digit drop in imports in May and June.

A new international distribution center in Houston blends US trucking and containerized imports as less-than-truckload carrier Averitt reaches deeper into US consumer markets.

Air freight capacity is struggling to keep up with soaring demand for medical equipment from coronavirus-hit Europe and the US that will keep China factories open through the Labor Day holidays.

Venture capital investment is beginning to flow toward logistics providers that ease the freight and trade compliance burdens on US-Mexico cross-border shippers.

North American intermodal volume may plunge as much as 25 percent in the second quarter, so railroads believe the right strategy is to focus on cost-cutting while providing reliable service.

Freight visibility provider Overhaul, fresh off a $17.5 million funding round in March, is partnering with Schneider’s broker division.

Bangladesh’s Shipping Ministry pushed customs authorities to relax rules governing what type of cargo could be moved to private off-dock space amid growing pressure to relieve congestion at Chittagong.

The unprecedented number of blank sailings announced by carriers on the Asia-Europe trade is an indicator of low demand expectations by carriers.

The devastating impact of the US-China trade war followed by the COVID-19 destruction of consumer demand in the US will result in a dispersal of trade lanes connecting North America with growing production clusters in Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Latin America.

A spike in demand for less-than-containerload (LCL) service suggests US importers are limiting shipping costs by not importing items that may not sell during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since acquiring APL in 2016, CMA CGM has steadily withdrawn the carrier from all other trade lanes and will now only cover trade between Asia and North America.

Shippers pressuring carriers to drop low-sulfur surcharges have some impressive data to support their push, with the price of very low-sulfur fuel oil in Singapore having collapsed by 70 percent since the first week of January.

An American Transportation Research Institute analysis of vehicle location data across six states shows trucking activity plummeting 8 to 10 percent in April as the COVID-19 lockdown spread across the US.

Daimler and Volvo will combine efforts to develop hydrogen fuel-cell technology for heavy electric trucks to meet future emissions and shipper sustainability targets.

A survey of shippers and 3PLs finds the COVID-19 crisis left many companies ill-prepared for the pandemic and will compel them to invest in technology.

The improved crisis-managing ability of a consolidated container shipping industry is serving it well as the coronavirus drags down demand.

Demand for global transport services remains volatile across the supply chain, but the COVID-19 recession has not diminished the urgency required in finding a carbon-neutral fuel source.