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On today's episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking to Bedrock Ocean Exploration CEO and co-founder Anthony DiMare about creating SpaceX for the ocean. Bedrock recently unveiled its autonomous submarine, revealing a first-of-its-kind vertically integrated ocean-mapping technology. They'll find...

A.P. Møller – Maersk is putting more pieces of the puzzle in place to decarbonize its shipping fleet. Maersk Growth, a corporate venture arm of the company, on Wednesday invested in WasteFuel to produce green bio-methanol. This announcement follows two August agreements Maersk signed to build...

Transportation and logistics provider ArcBest Corp. provided an update on August's trends on Wednesday. The company's asset-based segment, which includes less-than-truckload, saw tonnage decline 4% year-over-year during August, a turnaround from the 5% increase recorded during July. The year-ago...

Consolidating freight moving in the same geographical direction is a long-standing operational challenge.  As e-commerce drives shipment sizes smaller, lead-times shorter and LTL prices inexorably higher, that challenge has become increasingly difficult and expensive for shippers with smaller...

Every Friday, FreightWaves takes a look at the past week or so in social media, highlighting images in trucking, transportation, and weather. This week features Hurricane Ida's historic Northeast flooding, a behemoth piece of equipment heading to Ida-damaged Louisiana, and more. Ida's Inundation...

China is a manufacturing superpower and in many industries, U.S. companies have a hard time competing. Now, many policymakers are interested in boosting the manufacturing of medical products and drugs in the U.S. Image by 文 邵 from Pixabay

The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) reopened late Wednesday following a three-day closure from Hurricane Ida, which hammered the area with heavy rain and wind gusts of 172 mph. Breakbulk operations resumed Thursday, Jessica Ragusa, Port NOLA spokeswoman, told FreightWaves. "We are resuming...

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The Port of Corpus Christi and the Texas General Land Office (GLO) have announced an agreement to develop carbon storage solutions in the Coastal Bend region along the Gulf of Mexico. The partnership aims to build infrastructure that will capture and permanently store carbon dioxide produced...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Lexaria has progressed significantly in evidencing that its patented DehydraTECH(TM) drug delivery technology can sufficiently improve...

While most view Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) as the gold standards when it comes to e-commerce, Target (NYSE: TGT) has quietly made gains, and it is doing it in innovative ways. "We created a ‘local guest experience' battleground," Arthur L. Valdez Jr., Target's chief supply chain...

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Urb-E wants to replace cargo vans with electric bikes pulling collapsible cargo trailers where it makes the most sense: in high-density urban environments. Already proving the concept can work since its launch in New York City earlier this year, the company on Thursday announced a nationwide pilot...

Before Santa arrives with a sleigh full of toys and gifts manufactured in Asia, kids of all ages will be dressing up for Halloween and adults will be decorating their homes. Halloween is among the most popular holidays in America, so the horrific congestion this year is no treat for the nation's...

It was an interesting summer for crude oil traders as futures contracts transitioned from a slow grind up into a series of dramatic plunges that have turned into a downtrend. The /CL contract was down as much as 16% during the month of August, only to rebound and wind up about 2.5% higher since the...