Negotiations on the West Coast port labor contract dragged on for months longer than expected, with tempers flaring along the way. Work disruptions began affecting ship schedules and container dwell times over the past two weeks. It now appears that more that significant fallout to the supply chain has been averted: A deal has been…
MIAMI — Extreme discounting by freight forwarders with too much committed capacity in a weak market, plus an influx of passenger aircraft with lower-deck storage, explains the continued downward decline in air cargo rates as demand stabilizes 16 months into a freight recession, according to industry experts. And while airline and logistics professionals remain upbeat…
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are planning this summer to act on a petition filed 14 years ago requiring new trucking operators to take a standardized proficiency test before being granted operating authority, according to the Biden administration’s latest regulatory agenda. The petition, filed by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) in January 2009, was…
Persevering through disruptions such as the drought affecting container ship traffic in the Panama Canal, as well as future crises, involves building trusted networks of data to map the global supply chain, say Altana Technologies officials. Altana is a New York-based startup leveraging AI and billions of data points from customs authorities, logistics providers and…
Rail labor groups are rallying around Surface Transportation Board Chairman Marty Oberman, saying calls to strip him of his position misdiagnose the root cause of the industry’s woes: operational challenges associated with precision scheduled railroading (PSR). “We firmly believe that removing Chair Oberman or failing to reappoint him would undermine the significant progress the Board…