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19
Oct
Container Imports to Los Angeles and Long Beach are Plummeting
September is usually a strong month for West Coast imports as U.S. companies bring in their year-end holiday goods. Not so in 2022. On Wednesday, the Port of Los Angeles reported its lowest import total for September since 2009, amid […]
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30
Sep
The Latest on Ian’s Impact on the Supply Chain
Floridians are starting to assess the damage created by Hurricane Ian a day after it slammed into the Gulf Coast as a massive Category 4 storm. By Thursday morning, Ian had been downgraded to a tropical storm, but a threat […]
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27
Sep
Eastward turn shifts Hurricane Ian’s Florida Threat
Updates continue to roll in for Hurricane Ian on Tuesday as the center of the storm moved off Cuba and into the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. The outer rain bands of Ian, classified as a […]
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02
Sep
9-Week Decline in DOE/EIA Diesel Price Ends on Big Jump
The benchmark Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration diesel price moved up Monday after a nine-week run of decreases. Compared to recent gains in the price of ultra low sulfur diesel on futures and wholesale markets, the increase of 20.6 cents […]
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29
Aug
UPS Peak Surcharges Will Hit Big Shippers Hardest
UPS Inc. disclosed its peak-season surcharge schedule for U.S. residential deliveries, and, as expected, high-volume shippers will get hit the hardest. The surcharges take effect Oct. 30 and run until Jan. 14, UPS (NYSE: UPS) said on Friday. The levies will apply […]
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08
Aug
FedEx Peak Season Surcharges Target Large Shippers’ Volume Surges
FedEx has announced its 2022 peak season surcharges, adding further strain on shippers who have weathered high fuel surcharges and selective carrier capacity this year. Several of the holiday shipping surcharges exceed their prices from last year, including fees for large customers […]
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03
Aug
The Supply Chain Conundrum
Predicting consumer demand is big business. A robust industry of analysts and algorithms attempts to nail down who will buy how much of something in the most granular manner possible. Similar to someone who can count cards in blackjack, Las […]
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02
Aug
Diesel Declines for Sixth Straight Week
The price of diesel fuel dropped for the sixth straight week, as the U.S. average for the trucking industry’s main fuel fell by 13 cents to $5.138 per gallon and declined at least 11 cents in every region of the […]
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01
Aug
USDOT Outlines Infrastructure Funding Availability
Federal funds to enhance safety and connectivity across the country’s mobility networks will become available over the next few months to help state agencies make improvements to freight corridors, and also propel adoption of new technologies throughout the transportation landscape. […]
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13
Jul
US Truck Demand Rising Despite Slowing Economy
The US economy may have contracted in the second quarter, with gross domestic product (GDP) shrinking 1.8 percent, according to an S&P Global estimate, but the volume of freight shipped across the United States continued to grow. And freight demand […]
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