A startup cargo airline in Indonesia, a logistics company in Brazil with its own fleet and an American passenger airline with freighters focused on the Alaska market are each poised to receive two Boeing 737-800 converted cargo jets within a year. Modern Logistics, based in Sao Paulo, said last week it will lease two 737-800…
After a decline in truck transportation jobs in February that seemed to signal the end of the long, almost unbroken post-pandemic climb in trucking employment, the jobs total in that sector reversed course in March and headed higher yet again. Seasonally adjusted jobs in March, according to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released…
By summer 2021, it appeared Christmas was canceled. The nation’s largest ports were reporting record volumes of imported containers stuffed with toys, kitchen supplies, office chairs and so on. At some of these ports, most notably the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, dozens of vessels would soon park offshore, waiting to be unloaded….
This week’s FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 25 (Shippers) Last week’s FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index: 25 (Shippers) Three-month FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index Outlook: 35 (Shippers) The FreightWaves Supply Chain Pricing Power Index uses the analytics and data in FreightWaves SONAR to analyze the market and estimate the negotiating power for…
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