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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.
 

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Convoy Creates Method for Drivers to Book Multiple Loads at Once

Digital freight broker Convoy announced Automated Reloads, an app-based program that allows drivers to book multiple loads of freight at one time.

June 27, 2019
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Tesla Must Go All Out to Set Deliveries Record, CEO Elon Musk Says

Tesla Inc. could be on the verge of a quarterly record for vehicle deliveries, though the electric carmaker will need to go all out in the last few days of the month, CEO Elon Musk wrote in an internal memo.

June 26, 2019
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Surging Corn Prices Put US Wheat Back in the Feed Trough

A looming shortfall in U.S. corn production after a historical spat of wet weather means wheat is back on the menu at cattle feedlots in the southern Plains.

June 26, 2019
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Purolator to Spend $759 Million for Faster Deliveries in Canada

Courier company Purolator Inc. will invest more than C$1 billion over the next five years to build a shipping hub in Toronto, upgrade its fleet and enhance its retail network in Canada to reach more customers.

June 25, 2019
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FedEx Lobs New Attack on Trade Limits as China Threat Looms

FedEx Corp. has fired a new weapon in the simmering U.S.-China trade war, suing the Trump administration to block enforcement of trade restrictions that had placed the company in Beijings crosshairs.

June 25, 2019
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Port Officials Look to Keep Giant Cranes off Trump Administration Tariff List

As Americas ports handle larger amounts of cargo from bigger container ships, the ports are in a building boom. But the cost of expanding could get more expensive if a Trump administration plan to impose 25% tariffs on ship-to-shore cranes manufactured only in China are implemented.

June 25, 2019
BusinessLogistics

An Asian Airline Will Start Testing Drones Capable of Hauling Tons of Cargo

Delivering cargo to the furthest reaches of the worlds biggest archipelago has forever been a challenge. Indonesias biggest airline sees a solution in drones.

June 25, 2019
BusinessLogistics

Hudson Hill Forms Fusion Transport From Two Acquisitions

Hudson Hill Capital, a private investment firm, has acquired majority stakes in Global Transport Logistics Inc. and Am Trans Expedite Inc. to form Fusion Transport.

June 24, 2019
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Don Daseke: My Philosophy Is to Invest in People

Don Dasekes family business is owning businesses. Read more about this industry innovator in the first installment of "Accelerators."

June 24, 2019
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How a Business-Savvy Mother and Her Sons Built Two Men and a Truck

All of Brig Sorbers family played a part in the creation story of Two Men and a Truck, which has grown from humble origins into one of the largest moving companies in North America.

June 24, 2019