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Plaquemines Port announced Wednesday that development partner LA23 Development Co. (LA23 Devco) has secured the site for a future container terminal. The land sits on the west side of the Mississippi River, 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, with rail access to both Union Pacific's (NYSE: UNP) and...

E-commerce is continuing its strong performance in 2021, but the companies responsible for getting those packages to consumer doorsteps continue to be plagued by challenges, including a lack of drivers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said courier jobs climbed to 1,006,400 on a seasonal basis in...

Norfolk Southern isn't just in the business of moving freight, they're in the business of a better planet. To learn more about Norfolk Southern's industry-leading sustainability initiatives, go to nscorp.com/betterplanet. FreightWaves launched its Carbon Intelligence platform earlier in 2021 with...

While Dana von der Heide and Arne Jeroschewski were working to improve e-commerce logistics within Asia Pacific at DHL, the pair realized advancing the experience for retailers could not be done with just one carrier.  This inspired them to step away from DHL and co-found Parcel Perform, a...

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The National Retail Federation is calling for the start of peak season to kick off with a bang. The group sees imports to the nation's largest retail container ports increasing 12.6% year-over-year in August to 2.37 million twenty-foot equivalent units, ahead of the recent monthly record...

Container carrier representatives in Washington are pushing back hard against legislation introduced Tuesday aimed at addressing yearlong complaints against carriers by their customers alleging service failures and unfair pricing they say would have disastrous consequences for container markets....

Digital intermediaries like Uber Freight, Convoy, and Transfix have entered the freight brokerage market to enhance its efficiency and create cost savings for shippers while opening new lanes of cargo for carriers to scale and grow their business. A new software-as-a-service player has entered the...

E-commerce continues to maintain its foothold in the economy, but future sales are potentially at risk for some businesses that rely on traditional e-commerce platforms, said the CEO of Fabric. Faisal Masud spoke to Modern Shipper on that and the e-commerce market in general in a recent interview...

There's much to gain from the nearly $2 billion in trade flows across the U.S.-Mexico border every day. Pacific trade lanes remain stifled by west coast port congestion, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the trade war between the United States and China. These past-year developments have led many...

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The five-year contract between the Teamsters and UPS Inc., the Teamsters' largest employer with 268,000 members, doesn't expire until July 31, 2023. Talks aren't likely to start until late 2022. In reality, however, the contract cycle starts around Thanksgiving 2021. Barring unforeseen...

The week begins with Wall Street vacillating between signs of an improving economy and worries about the Delta variant.  This morning, the bias seems to be a bit lower. Maybe that’s in part because of a sharp decline in crude prices to the lowest level since May, below $66 a barrel....

Amazon Web Services continues to be a star player for Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN). As vaccines kicked in and helped the world restore somewhat of normalcy that includes in-store shopping, the hyped demand that amazon enjoyed is slowly weakening. But to be clear, it is nothing dramatic, just...

There is no COVID-era surge in global cargo demand. There's a lengthy albeit temporary spike in congestion compounded by a localized, stimulus-and-savings-driven demand boom in America. That explanation for skyrocketing rates gained more traction Friday when liner giant Maersk released details of...