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There were 63 container ships waiting off East and Gulf Coast ports on Friday morning, plus another eight off the transshipment hub in Freeport, Bahamas — and it looks like it’s about to get worse. The number of liner services […]

US shippers are being forced to rethink and reset their transportation budgets as fuel prices soar in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that unleashed extreme volatility in global oil markets. Beyond the immediate wallop of rapid fuel-related […]

It’s not just high gas prices that will increase the cost of trucking goods for consumers. Emission standards proposed by the U.S. EPA are also expected to increase costs. Illinois has the 7th highest gas prices in the nation, according […]

US importers are being forced to take greater control of landside delivery, whether by using expedited full truckload services or by funneling ocean containers through transloaded facilities to spit out freight in 53-foot domestic containers or trailers, or even by […]

While the transportation market place continues to face unique challenges in general, one of the specific challenges of the less than truckload (LTL) market is longer than normal transit times. This is due in part to LTL carriers working through […]

Time was that fuel surcharges were straight pass-through levies from the carriers to their customers. Surcharges accurately reflected a carrier’s fuel costs. Indices that set the surcharges were adjusted up or down depending on the direction of diesel and jet […]

Oil: After relative restraint, prices jumped Monday When the CME commodity exchange settled Friday, the price of ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) was $2.8495 a gallon. That was a grand total of 1 cent higher than where it was on […]

About a week after a storm slammed areas from the Plains to the Northeast with snow and ice, as well as blizzard conditions in the Midwest, another far-reaching system will strike over the next few days. The storm will take […]

Tens of thou­sands of con­tainer loads of cargo that would nor­mally move on rail­roads are being hauled on Amer­ican roads each month as com­pa­nies look to get around con­tin­u­ing sup­ply-chain bot­tle-necks. U.S. in­ter­modal transports, in which rail­roads carry con­tain­ers and […]

Protests by Canadian truck drivers that blocked trade and traffic at several points on the US border may be over, but cross-border shippers are still taking a hit to their budgets from trucking rates that soared during the protests. Spot […]