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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…
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…
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 …
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-…
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…
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…
Greek shipowner Vyron Vasileiadis has firmed up another two VLCCs at China’s Hengli Heavy Industries, doubling Venergy Maritime’s debut supertanker order to four vessels. The Piraeus-based company exercised the options attached to its October contract for two firm 306,000 dwt crude carriers, with all four vessels sche…
Evangelos Marinakis-backed Capital Tankers has secured a 15-month charter for one of its modern suezmaxes in a deal expected to generate between $73.1m and $82.2m in revenue. The Oslo-listed tanker owner said on Friday that its 155,348 dwt Amor has been fixed to an unnamed global energy company, with employment starti…
Tengrinews.kz — The Aqaba Process Summit on “Security in the Field of Artificial Intelligence” is taking place in Astana, according to Akorda. The summit is being attended by President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of T…
Tengrinews.kz — A 13-year-old boy in Almaty fell from the eighth floor and suffered multiple fractures, brain injuries and damage to internal organs. The child required several operations. The city’s Health Department press service shared details of the incident. Multiple fractures to arms and legs: what happened A 13…
Tengrinews.kz — Scientists have recorded a powerful solar flare. It occurred after a prolonged period of relative calm. “The strongest flare since early October” Details were reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the laboratory, an M…
Tengrinews.kz — Organizers of an illegal cryptocurrency exchange operation have been convicted in Kyzylorda Region, according to the Financial Monitoring Agency. How the scheme worked Investigators found that the convicted individuals illegally traded cryptocurrency through Binance’s P2P platform outside the trading v…
Tengrinews.kz — Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger a pandemic far more dangerous than COVID-19, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on November 4 while speaking at the Future of AI Summit, according to Oninvest. According to Gates, the capabilities of modern AI models are such that “the potential for both ben…
Tengrinews.kz — Kazakhstan is discussing possible changes to its road toll system, with a proposed focus on commercial freight transport. However, there are no plans to change toll conditions for private passenger car owners, citing the government's press service. Who could be affected by the changes The first meeting…
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…
A former Brazilian ocean canoeing champion has taken recycling to a floating extreme, constructing a boat from 230 discarded plastic containers so he can collect even more rubbish from the sea. Marcos Arnhold spent two months building the unusual craft in Guaratuba, southern Brazil, using 125 two-litre plastic bottles…
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…
Tengrinews.kz — Kazakhstan has introduced amendments to the rules for issuing military IDs and registering citizens for military service. The relevant order was signed by the Minister of Defense. The document, dated October 21, 2026, was registered with the Ministry of Justice on October 30. The amendments affect seve…