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“The restriction on loading of trains to Mundra Port has been lifted.”

Chicago-area draymen are charging shippers surcharges of $75 and even double that.

The carrier said its multiple nightly truck operations boost capacity and route options for shippers.

Port CEO Brandy Christian called the agreement a “win-win”.

Shippers are shouldering the cost of a sudden and often unexplained increase in unpaid tolls racked up by independent drayage drivers.

Mexican trucking companies are urging lawmakers to stiffen penalties against cargo robberies.

The disruption at Mundra is the latest weather-related complication for Indian shippers.

J.B. Hunt’s first acquisition in recent memory is neither in the first nor final-mile logistics space.

“We expect contractual rates to begin to improve over the next few quarters.”

Starting Aug. 1, three time-definite train runs a week will be introduced linking inland locations to Mundra and Pipavav.

US shippers are increasingly setting up warehouses and distribution centers in the Lehigh Valley, from which they are a 60- to 80-mile dray from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The trend has been underway in earnest for some time.

Increased second-quarter US industrial activity, consumer confidence primes freight market, pressures rates.

As freight volumes surge, truckload rates are rising faster than 3PLs such as C.H. Robinson Worldwide can adjust pricing.

The campaign to organize workers nationwide across different transportation modes will give the Teamsters more leverage and ultimately cost shippers more, a US labor expert told JOC.com.

APM Terminal (APMT) in the Port of New York and New Jersey says it will have mostly recovered from the cyber attack on Maersk by the end of the week.

A key House committee wants the Department of Transportation to consider delaying its electronic logging mandate, adding more uncertainty to the debate about the regulation, which takes effect in December.

XPO Logistics expects a healthy increase in revenue in the second quarter from the first quarter and a year ago, as freight demand in the US picks up.

Higher second-quarter freight demand drove up costs faster than contract rates for J.B. Hunt Transport Services, squeezing the $6.6 billion company's profits.

China's Belt and Road is projected to generate an additional $2.5 trillion in global trade over the next 10 years.

LA-LB container terminals are handling alliance changes and the recent APMT cyber attack with only minor glitches, so truckers are confident they will handle peak-season volumes without significant congestion.

Some of the largest and most congested US metropolitan areas have shorter last-mile delivery runs on average than smaller cities, a CBRE survey shows.

The Canadian intermodal network has been bulking up as if on steroids.

A leading European barge operator is imposing a congestion surcharge in Antwerp and Rotterdam.

Seasonally adjusted employment numbers show trucking employment dropping since March, though raw data show gains. Will truckers shift from first mile to last mile?

The changing landscape for international intermodal rail reflects the fierce competition among US East Coast ports to attract away from the West Coast discretionary cargo into and out of points east of the Ohio Valley.

Online marketplaces and mobile apps are challenging decades-old business models for industrial distributors as use of e-commerce channels grows, a UPS survey finds.

Improvement came despite supply chain disruptions caused by the June 27 cyber attack on Maersk Group.

The $113 million acquisition of Interstate Distributor will give Heartland greater "depth" in important truck lanes and a roster of experienced drivers.

The addition of The Steelman Companies follows mergers with Big Freight Systems and Schilli Companies, pushing Daseke revenue closer to $1 billion.

Trucker frustration builds at delays at APM Terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Mexico is preparing its first hours of service rules specifically for truck drivers, while Canada readies an electronic logging regulation of its own.

The recent cyber attack on the Maersk Group made existing congestion worse.

DB Logistics said it plans to operate five services a week carrying up to 200 cars by the end of the year.

The acquisition of Paris-based NACCO, Europe’s fourth-largest rail rental group, will boost Hamburg-based VTG’s fleet by 14,000 rail wagons.

ArcBest subsidiary's "cubic minimum charge" is designed to help LTL carrier capture more costs.

Lengthy truck lines continued outside APM Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey Monday on the third day of operations since a massive cyberattack last week on parent company Maersk Group shut down the facility.

A coalition of groups is calling on the Port of New York and New Jersey to revive a plan to ban all trucks with engines from 2007 or older from the port, expressing health concerns.

Forwarders continue to pile into the China-Europe rail network, offering new multimodal services.

FedEx European subsidiary TNT Express is the second major transportation operator affected by a global cyberattack.