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Norfolk Southern heads toward its May 9 annual meeting and the resolution of its battle with activist shareholder Ancora over control of the company with a public campaign that may have taken a hit Tuesday, judging from a preview of the railroad’s first-quarter numbers. In an outlook for Q1 earnings, which are to be released…
On March 31, 2022, FreightWaves declared that a freight recession was imminent. More than two years later, the freight market remains in one of its deepest and longest recessions in history. Our original conclusion was derived from signals from FreightWaves SONAR. Its high-frequency datasets, which track freight supply and demand in real time, indicated an…
FreightWaves Classics is sponsored by Old Dominion Freight Line — Helping the World Keep Promises. Learn more here. FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago. In this week’s edition, from the March 1977 issue of American Shipper, FreightWaves looks…
Class 8 truck orders were soft as expected in June with manufacturers offering few build slots until they open order books for 2024 as soon as next month. But even when OEMs begin taking orders, expect bookings to remain slow as the focus remains on bringing balance to months of orders yet to be produced….
For nearly two years, capital markets have punished Zim, the Israeli containership line whose fleet is the 10th-largest on the ocean. Zim’s model, which involves operating a subscale, highly chartered fleet of smaller vessels almost wholly exposed to the spot market, took a beating when collapsing spot rates collided with its high COVID-era lease expenses….
Only the formal closing remains in BP’s acquisition of TravelCenters of America, with shareholders overwhelmingly approving the purchase in voting results released Wednesday. There was no sign of a late move by convenience store operator Arko to derail the BP purchase of TA (NASDAQ: TA) at $86 per share, which was announced in February. Arko…