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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

Business, Technology, Logistics

UPS, Shippo Collaborate on Small-Business Shipping

UPS Inc. will work with shipping technology company Shippo to offer marketplace shipping rates to the more than 35,000 small- and medium-size businesses that use Shippos platform, according to an Oct. 10 news release.

October 10, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

GM Factory Hands Making 40% Less Than Their Coworkers

The future of temps has been among the major impasses contributing to the United Auto Workers unions strike against GM, now in its 25th day.

October 10, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

China to Ask US to End Sanctions on COSCO Shipping Company

China plans to ask the U.S. to lift sanctions on its biggest shipping company at high-level trade negotiations in Washington this week, people familiar with the matter said.

October 10, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

GM Strike Seen Forcing Credit Firms to Mull Action

The United Auto Workers unions strike against General Motors Co. may force credit raters to take action and move the company closer to junk status, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.

October 9, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

Massive California Blackout Could Prevent Fires but at Big Cost

Even a brief blackout can be costly. Now California faces the experiment of finding what out happens economically when a modern metropolitan area goes without power on purpose for what could be days.

October 9, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Logistics

For ATAs New Chairman Randy Guillot, Life and Work Are Family Affairs

NEW ORLEANS Business was going quite well for family-owned Triple G Express Inc. during the summer of 2005, as the city best known for its 24-hour nightlife, vibrant live music scene and spicy Cajun cuisine also served as a great base of operations for the intermodal motor carrier and its decades-old less-than-truckload affiliate, Southeastern Motor Freight Inc.

October 9, 2019
Business, Logistics, Top 100

Daseke Plans Pivot of Cutting Costs, Adding Council of CEOs

SAN DIEGO Daseke Inc. is launching a series of business improvement plans that includes an internal council of CEOs from flatbed carriers it owns, and that targets reducing operating ratios and cutting costs at its Addison, Texas, headquarters, company executives told Transport Topics.

October 8, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Fuel, Logistics

Reliable Federal Funding Will Enhance Freight Transportation System, TRIP Report Says

In Americas Rolling Warehouses: Opportunities and Challenges with the Nations Freight Delivery System, the Washington, D.C.-based group TRIP concluded that significant sustainable funding at the federal level will be key to enhancing connectivity along freight corridors in the coming years.

October 8, 2019
Business, Technology, Logistics

I.D. Systems, Now PowerFleet, Buys Pointer Telocation for $140 Million

PowerFleet Inc. said it closed its acquisition of Pointer Telocation Ltd., and rebranded the company formerly known as I.D. Systems to PowerFleet Inc.

October 7, 2019
Business, Logistics

American Railroads Are Already in Recession With No End in Sight

This years railroad slump is getting worse as a slowdown in manufacturing threatens broader weakness in the U.S. economy.

October 7, 2019