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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.
 

Government, Business, Safety, Logistics

Officials Monitor Damage as Floods Continue to Devastate Transportation Systems and Farms

Federal officials continue to monitor central states that have been rocked by severe storms, which have damaged infrastructure and saturated swaths of farmland.

June 6, 2019
Business, Logistics

Baltimore’s Tradepoint Atlantic Intermodal Facility Transforms Old Bethlehem Steel Site

In 2014, Tradepoint Atlantic bought the waterfront Sparrows Point in Baltimore site for a bargain-basement price of $110 million. It’s now being turned into what will be more than a $2 billion multimodal facility serving the East Coast and Midwest.

June 6, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

Exports, Imports Plummet as US Trade Deficit Narrows

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in April as exports and imports tumbled, highlighting the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs even before negotiations with China unraveled and he threatened levies on Mexican goods.

June 6, 2019
Business, Logistics, Top 100

Wilson Logistics Acquires Market Transport and Larger West Coast Portfolio

Wilson Logistics said it has purchased Market Transport, a DSV Global Transport and Logistics subsidiary.

June 5, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

Port Tampa Bay Finishes Deepening, Hopes for More Cargo

Port Tampa Bay completed a $63 million expansion of its Big Bend Channel a year ahead of schedule, port officials said, as the Sunshine State eyes grabbing more freight from shippers while serving a growing distribution corridor in Central Florida.

June 5, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

Trump Says 'No Bluff!' On the Mexico Tariffs

Republican lawmakers eager to halt a new round of tariffs on Mexican goods next week have spent days urging the Trump administration to negotiate a solution with Mexico’s government.

June 5, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

VW Brand to Trim as Many as 4,000 Jobs Amid Digital Overhaul

Volkswagen AG’s main car brand will let lapse as many as 4,000 general and administrative jobs while adding at least 2,000 IT positions over the next four years, avoiding layoffs at its German factories as it negotiates a major shift toward electrification and self-driving cars.

June 5, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

GM Won’t Get Tariff Relief for Chinese-Built Buick Envision

The largest U.S. automaker can’t get a pass on tariffs snagging one of its models. The Trump administration refused to grant General Motors Co. an exclusion for its Chinese-built Buick Envision SUV, keeping in place a 25% duty on the import.

June 5, 2019
Business, Logistics, Top 100

TFI Closes Highland Transport Subsidiary

TFI International Inc. is closing its 150-truck Highland Transport division, a possible sign of softness in the Northeast freight market, according to a TFI official.

June 4, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Logistics, Autonomous, Top 100

Ryder Promotes Rich Mohr to Chief Technology Officer at Fleet Management Unit

Ryder Fleet Management Solutions, a unit of Ryder System Inc., appointed Rich Mohr chief technology officer.

June 4, 2019