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HONG KONG — Manufacturers and retailers are bracing for chaos as U.S. Customs prepares to enforce a ban on imports from China’s Xinjiang region from Tuesday in response to reports of forced labor. Companies are scrambling to gauge how the new […]

Shippers forced to carry additional inventory to compensate for persistent container vessel delays have shouldered cumulative financial losses of up to $10 billion over the past two years, according to an estimate from Sea-Intelligence Maritime Analysis. The cost burden of […]

Workers at the Port of Hamburg, Europe’s third-largest container port and the largest railway port, have followed through on their threat of a strike. In addition to Hamburg, the German ports of Emden, Bremen, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven are also impacted […]

LTL carriers never went out of their way to court firearms manufacturers despite the financially desirable characteristics of hauling dense and heavy freight. In the wake of the spree of mass shootings in the U.S. over the past month, one […]

With a wave of import containers expected from Shanghai’s reopening and peak season just around the corner, North Europe’s box port hubs, worryingly, remain severely congested. Huge stacks of empty containers and hundreds of frustrated export boxes have built up […]

Trailers have never been more in demand, or harder to get. That is making it harder for trucking companies to meet increasing shipper demand for drop-and-hook trailer pools. In the long term, however, the 53-foot trailer may replace the truck […]

The relatively small decline in the benchmark price of U.S. diesel masked a day in oil markets that was crazy even by recent standards. A drop of 3.2 cents was recorded in the weekly national diesel price of the Department […]

Newly released data from a Truckstop.com survey shows that the post-lockdown surge of small carriers who entered the trucking industry in 2020-21 are finding recent “challenges”—the exploding cost of fuel chief among them—too much for them to stay in business […]

According to two change of operations requests, less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. has begun the process of consolidating terminals in its Western network. The company seeks to consolidate 20 YRC Freight and Reddaway facilities and close nine. An accompanying letter to […]

Gasoline prices are increasing almost daily, pinching the wallets and pocketbooks of nearly all Americans with cars. However, as bad as that news is, diesel prices are surging even more across the country. Today’s truck stop retail diesel prices hit […]