Uber Freight lays off as many as 50 brokerage employees

Uber Freight has implemented layoffs in its legacy digital brokerage operations in the second round of cuts this year.  A spokesman for Uber Freight (NYSE: UBER) on Thursday confirmed the layoffs, which sources said totaled between 40 and 50. None of them were reported to have been in the transportation management business at Uber Freight,…

Carload traffic grows at ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert

While intermodal shipments to the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert have stalled since the start of a strike on July 1, coal and grain movements have increased significantly amid unrelated mitigating factors, according to data from supply chain visibility platform RailState. The strike by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in…