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The Gulf Coast ports have received a lot of attention in recent years and rightfully so. The ports along the Gulf Coast provided a pressure relief valve of sorts, though they suffered with congestion throughout the pandemic as well. What separates the Gulf Coast ports from the major East and West Coast ports is the…
With geopolitical tensions rising around the Suez Canal and water levels dropping at the Panama Canal, one could be forgiven for expecting U.S. imports to fall in January. But, according to new data from Descartes, they were shockingly robust. The U.S. imported 2,273,125 twenty-foot equivalent units of containerized goods in January, up a surprising 7.9%…
The freight transportation industry has been increasingly impacted by identity theft, according to Kendra Tucker, CEO of Truckstop. Tucker was the guest on the latest episode of Fuller Speed Ahead, hosted by FreightWaves CEO and founder Craig Fuller. The show aired during FreightWaves’ Small Fleet & Owner-Operator Summit on Wednesday. “Identity theft is something that…
While venture capital investment in startups has slowed over the last several quarters, funding continues to flow to companies focused on boosting the global supply chain. Supply chain-focused startups Unity SCM, Ox, Prewave and Pando recently secured a combined $70.6 million in venture capital. Overall, venture funding for supply chain startups in the fourth quarter…
For months, the weekly Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration average retail diesel price has been marked by moves that, except for once, always were at least 1 cent up or down. But reflecting the current state of a market that has swung in a relatively tight range for several weeks, the price used for most…
Many carriers pull their drivers’ motor vehicle records (MVRs) to check for violations and privilege suspensions just once a year. This means that, in some cases, a driver could lose driving privileges for up to 364 days before a carrier ever finds out. This “same time next year” approach to MVRs doesn’t work in the…