US trucking companies adds jobs, but employees work fewer hours
For-hire trucking companies have been expanding their workforce since February, but a soft freight market is cutting into weekly hours worked by drivers and
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Prior NY-NJ empty container woes linked to FMC complaint against Hapag-Lloyd
The carrier is the target of another shipper complaint regarding demurrage and detention fees, this time the indirect result of empty container congestion at
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US imports building toward August peak, but labor concerns weigh: retailers
The Global Port Tracker says prospects for a recession in the second half of the year are dimming and imports should increase as consumer
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Revised IMO emissions targets set clear timeline: shipping groups
The London meeting of the IMO’s environment committee has upgraded its emissions goals, but it is only the starting point in a long and
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US House bills keep shipping reform effort alive even after freight rate plunge
Although there remain multiple obstacles to further legislation being signed into law, bipartisan support that shipping reform attracted in 2021 and 2022 has led
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Knight-Swift commits to LTL expansion amid soft truckload demand
The largest US truckload operator will continue to add terminals to its LTL network as it absorbs truckload carrier U.S. Xpress.
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Trans-Pacific services get reworked as freight downturn continues
Ocean carriers are pulling a variety of levers, such as cancelled services, new port calls and slow steaming, to keep ships on the water
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Impact of BC port strike could deepen without Ottawa’s intervention
The strike by ILWU Canada, which entered its sixth day Thursday, is expected to have an increasing impact on Canada’s trans-Pacific trades if it
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