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PS Logistics announced it has acquired peer Roane Transportation Services and its affiliates, adding 189 power units to its flatbed network. PS Logistics subsidiary, Loudon County Trucking, was the buyer in the transaction. The deal also included Roane’s logistics and leasing operations. Financial terms of the transac…
A tractor-trailer hauling leeks concealed more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine as it approached the Texas border. Federal officers discovered 909 packages of suspected narcotics during an Oct. 30 inspection of a commercial truck entering South Texas. The drugs carried an estimated street value of $984,063. U.S. C…
Fleetworthy is adding AI-powered capabilities to its fleet management platform, giving customers new tools to monitor toll activity, identify spending trends and receive recommendations without manually reviewing reports. The new technology, called RADAR (Real-time AI, Decisioning and Automated Resolution), is embedde…
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The Surface Transportation Board is signaling that state and local restrictions on rail customers’ facilities may face greater scrutiny under federal law, issuing a sweeping policy statement that questions aspects of earlier agency decisions involving privately owned terminals and other rail-served projects. The state…
Walmart will significantly scale up its drone delivery network in partnership with Zipline, which will operate the small unmanned aerial vehicles from 300 new store locations and has raised $1.5 billion in new funding to build out a nationwide drone delivery capacity, the companies announced on Thursday. Zipline, the …
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…
A.P. Moller Capital is expanding its international ports portfolio through agreements to buy Singapore-based Portek International and a majority stake in Euroports, adding exposure to container terminals and the infrastructure that moves Europe’s industrial and agricultural commodities. The infrastructure investment m…
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…