OOIDA Announces 2024 Scholarship Recipients

Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association 1 OOIDA Drive, Grain Valley, MO 64029 Web Site: www.ooida.com Facebook: OOIDA Facebook Contact: press@ooida.com Headquarters: (816) 229-5791 For Immediate Release OOIDA Announces 2024 Scholarship Recipients The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association announced the recipients of this year’s Mary Johnston Scholarship. Since 1998, the fund has awarded approximately $400,000 to students who…

Airfreight rides e-commerce to surprise growth in May

Conventional thinking suggests the unexpected strength of the air cargo market so far this year is ready to cool off for the summer, as freight activity normally does each year. It’s not happening — yet. Global airfreight volumes didn’t subside after China’s Lunar New Year holiday in February, as many industry professionals anticipated, and are…

Diesel takes another hit and may be driving down broader oil market

With the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges down for the fifth week in a row, diesel consumers should be reveling in the fact that market trends appear to have completely thrown out concerns about the Middle East conflict and are focused on the markets for both diesel and gasoline as primary drivers….

Visibility platform GoComet: Norfolk-area ports gained most from Baltimore port closure

Data from supply chain visibility platform GoComet on shifts in East Coast shipping as a result of the closure of the Port of Baltimore shows Norfolk, Virginia, gained the most incoming ships on average since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse at the end of March. In data provided to FreightWaves, GoComet notes that the…