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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…
Turkmenistan and the United States are working to deepen their economic and diplomatic relationship, with a top American diplomat and a U.S. business delegation visiting Ashgabat this week. The U.S.-Turkmenistan Business Council had announced a semiannual business mission to Ashgabat on November 4–5, a trip that comes…
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 …
The Kazakh authorities’ grand plans to turn Almaty and its picturesque surroundings into Central Asia’s next tourist mecca have run headlong into a public transportation crisis this fall. Almaty residents have been flooding social media with photos and videos of overcrowded buses and trolleybuses, saying they have not…
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…
Eighteen people died in three suspected carbon monoxide poisoning incidents in Uzbekistan between October 25 and November 1, prompting warnings about dangerously modified gas boilers being sold as new. On October 25, seven members of one family died in the village of Chimyon in the Fergana region. On November 1, anoth…
Americold Realty Trust raised its full-year earnings outlook Thursday after reporting higher third-quarter revenue and improved warehouse margins, while a one-time gain from its joint venture with EQT drove a sharp swing to profit. The temperature-controlled logistics company (NYSE: COLD ) based in Atlanta reported ne…
Kazakhstan remained the only Central Asian country with universities in the top 100 of the latest Asian rankings from higher education analysts Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), although all three of its leading institutions fell. In the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027 , released on November 3, Al-Farabi Kazakh Natio…
Kazakhstan has formally asked Russia to restore oil shipments to Germany through the Druzhba pipeline, six months after Moscow suspended the route. The request follows a drone attack on Russian infrastructure that briefly halted another Kazakh oil export route earlier this week. Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov said…
Kazakhstan’s Victims Compensation Fund has collected more than 9.3 billion tenge ($20.6 million) over eight years but paid out only about 9% of that amount to crime victims. Snezhanna Imasheva, a member of the Kurultai, Kazakhstan’s unicameral parliament, has proposed increasing compensation payments or expanding elig…
Journalists in Uzbekistan found their own personal information and details about relatives in a database circulating online, Gazeta.uz has reported . The Interior Ministry announced an investigation on October 29 after reports linked the records to SAFE Service, formerly known as SafeRoad, a digital service for motori…
Kazakhstan’s Food Contract Corporation is prepared to discuss long-term contracts to supply between 200,000 and 500,000 metric tons of food-grade wheat to Israel. Samat Tenbayev, deputy chairman of the company’s management board, outlined the proposal during talks in Jerusalem, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture sai…
A potential strike by port watchmen at Los Angeles and Long Beach has been delayed again after the Pacific Maritime Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 26 agreed to extend their contract through midnight Pacific Time on Friday. Negotiations will continue Friday with assistance from federa…
Federal trucking regulators are expanding Operation Highway Shield enforcement efforts across the United States, with new inspections in Virginia uncovering 100 safety violations. As of Nov. 4, the U.S. Department of Transportation reports that 33,000 commercial drivers have been placed out of service nationwide for f…
The massive Democratic Party win on Election Day will have implications for government rules and regulations on trucking, including the so-called highway bill , driven in part by changes in the lineups of who will sit on Congress’ transportation-focused committees. There are several members of the House Transportation…
North American Class 8 truck orders tumbled 36% year over year in October, signaling a surprisingly weak start to the 2027 order season. Trucking fleets are grappling with regulatory uncertainty , rising equipment costs and pressure on operating margins, according to data released Wednesday by FTR Transportation Intel…
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GXO Logistics is seeing accelerating demand for its contract logistics services, particularly in North America, as data centers, aerospace and defense customers fuel a record sales pipeline. During a Wednesday earnings call, CEO Patrick Kelleher said the company’s renewed commercial strategy is generating larger contr…
The cargo division of Middle East carrier Emirates has introduced a dedicated product designed to facilitate the shipping process for cloud computing companies and suppliers with time-critical AI-related products, which have become a major driver of air cargo demand in the past year. The product combines priority load…
U.S. rail traffic increased 3.5% in the week ending Oct. 31 compared with the same week in 2025, the Association of American Railroads said Wednesday. Carload traffic rose 3.0%, while intermodal volume increased 3.9%. Seven of the 10 carload commodity groups recorded year-over-year gains. Metallic ores and metals led …