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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…
Polish freight operator PKP Cargo is apparently planning another round of collective layoffs before the end of the year, along with changes to how its staff are paid, according to Polish rail media. Responding to the reports, PKP Cargo told the Polish Press Agency that restructuring administrator Paweł Głodek is analy…
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…
Lobby groups in the north and south of Scotland have emphasised how freight can play a new role in railway development. Campaigns in the North East and the Scottish Borders have both put their cases to the government and to stakeholders at large. The North East lobby group was at the Scottish Parliament last week, whi…
Han Zheng, Vice President of China, arrived in Georgia on November 6 for an official visit, planning to meet with Georgian leaders before heading to Turkey for a UN climate summit. The visit comes amid efforts by Tbilisi and Beijing to strengthen bilateral relations, with Georgian officials describing Zheng as the hig…
Medway France is now running MSC’s container trains between the ports of Le Havre and Montoir-de-Bretagne on its own, after more than three months working on the flow alongside Europorte. It is the company’s third regular flow in France, less than a year after it entered the market. MSC’s rail freight arm started the …
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,…
KTZ Express, the freight forwarding subsidiary of Kazakh Railways (KTZ) has organised a container shipment from Kazakhstan to the Mexican Port of Veracruz. KTZ is reaching ever-more destinations across the world “beyond traditional sales markets”. KTZ Express presented the shipment as part of an effort to expand the g…
ČD Cargo has rejected the “simplistic conclusion that rail cannot compete with road”, after shippers interviewed on primetime Czech television said they had switched to trucks on cost and speed. Rail, the operator says, “can offer a competitive solution in terms of price, transport capacity and reliability”, for both …
Time is ticking for the German national rail freight operator DB Cargo. It needs to implement its restructuring programme by 31 December 2026 under a deal with the European Commission. If the operator fails to do so, it could be in serious trouble. The goal is to break even financially. The DB Cargo case in short DB C…
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 …
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…
Every December a towering evergreen rises on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and gets called the People’s Tree, but before a child from its home state flips the switch to light it, the tree has to survive something most of the public never stops to consider, a journey of more than 2,000 miles from a remote national …
Harbinger raised $240 million in Series D funding to push its electric vehicle platform into energy storage, power generation, autonomy, and defense while it ramps production for a 2,000-truck order from FedEx . Tiger Global, Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund, and Ridgeline co-led the round, the Garden Grove, Califor…
Humble Robotics raised a $51 million Series A on Thursday to move its cabless, electric Humble Hauler into customer pilots on port drayage and warehouse runs. Obvious Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners. The raise brings the San Francisco startup’s tota…
FedEx Corp. has made clear that its future lies with premium B2B logistics services in key industrial verticals that require precision execution, such as automotive, healthcare, aerospace and data centers — not cheap last-mile delivery for online retailers. Add the defense sector to the list of industries the freight …
Adif president Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña has resigned, a day after Transport Minister Óscar Puente quit over the deadly Urda high-speed crash. With Spain’s rail leadership upended just weeks before the 29 November snap election, what does the shake-up mean for freight, from Adif’s new 2026–2030 funding deal to the R…
The scramble is over. Carriers and owner-operators who spent the past few years chasing build slots, paying inflated prices for used units and taking whatever iron they could find are now facing a different problem: plenty of options and very little margin for a bad decision. Lead times have stabilized, used pricing h…
A.P. Moller-Maersk raised its full-year earnings forecast on Thursday after higher freight rates drove a sharp increase in third-quarter profit, but its shares fell as the results and upgraded outlook disappointed investors. The stock dropped as much as 11.6% in Copenhagen trading. The Danish shipping and logistics gr…