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Berlin-based Conlio announced a €6.4 million ($7.1 million) funding round on Tuesday for software that verifies road freight documents before forwarders pay carriers and invoice customers. Piton Capital led the round. Conlio calls that check one of logistics’ most manual processes and says it slows payments and ties u…
The number of workers employed in truck transportation in October was unchanged from September. That end result in the October report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released Friday, came from two developments. First, the BLS revised downward its initial figure on truck transportation jobs in September to 1,471,3…
Mexico remained the United States’ largest trading partner in September, with two-way commerce surging 34.2% year over year to a record $96.34 billion. According to the latest trade data analyzed by WorldCity , Canada ranked second with $64.78 billion in two-way trade, followed by China at $41.1 billion. Mexico accoun…
Global container volumes reached 17.35 million TEUs in September 2026, up 8% from a year earlier, as trade remained resilient despite mounting disruption and rising freight prices. Monthly liftings fell 1.4% from August , although the decline followed the highest monthly volume recorded in the Container Trade Statisti…
There was a certain sense of calm about the container spot freight rate market this week, with slight declines on both the transpacific and Asia-Europe trades as capacity constraints eased and demand remained seasonally subdued. Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) recorded a 2% week-on-week drop on its Shanghai-Rotte…
Access – or not – to freighter capacity is helping shape air cargo’s fortunes. IAG Cargo, which shed its freighter operations more than a decade ago, lost traffic following cancelled services, while asset-heavy DHL reported double-digit volume growth. But rising rates do not necessarily signal a late peak-season surge…
Ryder System (NYSE: R) has acquired Efficiency Enterprises, a company with a business model similar to what Ryder does in its Fleet Management Systems (FMS) unit. Ryder, in a prepared statement, described Efficiency Enterprises as “a regional provider of fleet management, maintenance, and leasing solutions for trucks,…
At the Shalkiya lead-zinc mine in Kyzylorda Region, engineers have designed a processing plant that could handle four million metric tons of ore a year. To keep it running, a pumping station would send up to 2,400 cubic meters of water back through the plant every hour. Even with that water going round again, the plan…
NYK has raised its dividend to ¥330 a share on a year swollen by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and strong container rates, but its own guidance has second-half profit falling by more than 40%. Morgan Stanley values the company on a normal year worth less than half of this one and sees a risk the dividend is cut …
Central Asian leaders and Jordan’s King Abdullah II met on November 6 to discuss how terrorist groups could use artificial intelligence to recruit members, coordinate their activities, and spread propaganda. At the Aqaba Process summit, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev offered to host a Central Asian office of the U…
Kazakhstan’s exports of sunflower husk pellets reached 63,200 metric tons in the first nine months of 2026, 3.56 times the volume shipped a year earlier. The pellets are made by compressing discarded sunflower seed shells for use as fuel. Export revenue increased by 515% to $3.4 million, according to export figures fr…
Kairat Almaty secured one of their most impressive European results on November 5, holding Italian side Atalanta to a 1-1 draw in Bergamo in the UEFA Conference League. The Kazakh visitors came close to a famous victory after taking the lead early in the second half. Atalanta, winners of the Europa League in 2024, nee…
The Asia-North America tradelane is facing the highest ocean freight disruption risk over the coming weeks. Reduced carrier capacity and growing difficulty securing bookings threaten shipment reliability, according to WiseTech Global. The company’s November Ocean Freight Risk Outlook, released today covering weeks 45-…
Kürşad Zorlu, a senior official in Türkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party, has questioned Russia’s eligibility for observer status in the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), citing its language requirements. At the OTS summit in Ankara on October 30, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed inviting Ru…
Developing the Middle Corridor, a transport route connecting China and Europe through Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, and the South Caucasus, will require at least $25 billion in infrastructure upgrades by 2040. The World Bank estimates that another $30.5 billion will be needed for complementary investments in logistic…
Today we soft launch our “Top Analyst Question(s) Award” drawing from yesterday’s Q3 26 (YAWWWNNNN) earnings call with Mærsk, when CEO Vincent Clerc tried to explain why all units are firing on all cylinders, almost a decade after the carrier’s reorg was disclosed (our exclusive from Oct 2018 is here), aiming for deep…
Women gathered outside a branch of Kazakhstan’s Otbasy Bank in Almaty’s Zhetysu neighborhood early on November 3, hoping to secure mortgages under a program designed to help women buy homes. Some banks drew up waiting lists, which security guards used to control entry, while others argued as the crowd pressed toward t…
The National Bank of Kazakhstan expects inflation to slow in 2027, but less sharply than previously forecast. In September, it raised its forecast to 6.5%–8.5%, up from 5.5%–7.5%, amid concerns about government spending and other pressures. Akylzhan Baimagambetov, the bank’s deputy governor, said on November 5 that th…
Organised criminal networks are increasingly exploiting identity fraud, carrier impersonation and weaknesses in freight verification, driving cargo theft losses across Canada and the US up 39% year on year, despite a sharp decline in reported incidents Verisk CargoNet recorded 2,072 of reported supply chain crime inci…
Hong Kong is reviewing permit fees charged to river trade vessels as it seeks to maintain its port’s competitiveness amid growing competition from mainland Chinese terminals in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The secretary for transport and logistics, Chan Mei-po, announced the review in a written reply to the Legislative Cou…
Uzbekistan plans to double its annual uranium production to 15,000 metric tons by 2030, up from a projected 7,500 this year, as demand for nuclear fuel grows. Tashkent also wants to expand critical mineral processing to produce more finished goods for export. The development plans , published by the president’s office…
The chief executive of Union Pacific says he wasn’t serious when he threatened to raise rates for shippers that didn’t support UP’s merger with Norfolk Southern . Vena, who frequently peppers his public comments with joking asides, characterized the comment made to a shippers group as “a little humor” in a message to …
Union Pacific must disclose Jim Vena’s conference video and produce records about possible retaliation. The railroad denies making threats, and regulators have yet to decide whether anyone was intimidated – or whether the merger review should continue. For a regulator assessing the largest proposed US railroad combina…
The Teamsters are claiming victory for a group of “W-2” drivers at an Amazon facility in Indiana who sought representation by the union. But as with the entire Amazon-Teamsters relationship, it’s complicated. In its prepared statement announcing the “march” on the company to demand it bargain for a contract, the Teams…
Cargo thieves in Mexico are increasingly targeting parked trucks, shifting operations toward the country’s industrial heartland and exploiting nighttime security vulnerabilities. “Now, in Mexico, you can’t move loads without a plan,” Luis Enrique Villatoro, president of the Mexico-based National Association of Vehicle…
Conrail has named John Wright its new president and chief operating officer, bringing aboard a freight rail veteran with decades of operating and executive experience. Wright most recently served as general manager of Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, a 600-employee switching and belt-line railroad based in Hammond, Ind. …
For most enterprises the first sign of a winter storm is still a broad, countrywide warning, the kind that tells a leadership team something is coming but says nothing about which lanes will fail, which distribution centers sit in the path, or which customer commitments are about to slip, and in a season shaping up to…
The Surface Transportation Board has ordered Union Pacific to make public a recording of Chief Executive Jim Vena’s remarks to a shipper conference, rejecting the railroad’s appeal in a dispute over whether he threatened customers who oppose its proposed acquisition of Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC ). The board’s Nov. 4…