YRC Worldwide, parent of long-haul YRC Freight and three regional LTL carriers, fell back into the red last year as it battled a red-hot freight market with sharply higher costs related to purchased transportation, equipment shortages and higher salaries to keep those trucks operating with sufficient drivers.
For November, the most recent month for which data is available, the SCI came in at -8.9, which is down from, and an improvement over, October’s -9.6. September and August came in at -8.2 and -6.7, respectively.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Real Estate (GSAM PRE) and DH Property Holdings (DHPH) have formed a joint venture to develop a three-story, 370,000 square-foot, institutional grade warehouse and distribution center at 640 Columbia Street in Brooklyn, New York on the Red Hook waterfront.
Although not name specific players, Lytle said “international shipping lines” view Oakland as a candidate for first-call service from Asia.
The Port of Rotterdam Authority and IBM recently announced their collaboration on a multi-year digitization initiative to transform the port’s operational environment using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the cloud to benefit the port and its stakeholders.
Carloads increased 1.1% annually to 260,993, and intermodal containers and trailers saw a 6.9% annual gain to 282,522.
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