Air cargo continues to carry the day
The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) notes that the solid expansion in international air cargo markets continues unabated.
Heavy holiday sales continue to drive 3PL reverse logistics activity, says CBRE
As online shopping, or e-commerce, becomes an ever-growing piece of holiday retail sales, so, too, does the commensurate returns, or, reverse logistics, activity. That outlook becomes even more clear, when considering that retailers’ efficiency in limiting and handling returns bought online could be as much as $32 billion in 2017, according to recent research published…
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Top 20 3PL Warehouses 2017: Growth amid change
The steady growth in square footage among the top third-party logistics (3PL) warehouses belies a fundamental transformation as the market adapts to e-commerce pressures.
LM survey indicates truckload rate increases are coming sooner than later
While these ranges seem typical for a normal year, what may be going down in 2018 can be viewed as anything but typical.
CSX president and CEO E. Hunter Harrison passes away
Logistics Management regrets to report that E. Hunter Harrison, president and chief executive officer of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Class I railroad CSX passed away on Saturday December 16.
CSX announces top executive E. Hunter Harrison is on medical leave
Class I railroad carrier CSX reported late yesterday that the company’s Chief Executive Officer and President E. Hunter Harrison is on medical leave, due to complications from a recent illness, and it added that COO James M. Foote has been named as acting CEO in the interim.
BTS reports a new all-time high for Freight Transportation Services Index
October’s Freight TSI reading of 129.2 marks a new all-time high, topping August 2017’s 129 by 0.2%, as well as the third all-time high set over the last four recorded months and the fourth in the last six recorded months.
AAR reports carload and intermodal gains for week ending December 9
Carloads, at 267,963, were up 3.4% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers rose 4.6% annually to 292,793 units.
Fine print trucking regulations snag NAFTA modernization talks
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is strongly lobbying to tweak – not trash – the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA.) And it’s not just transport companies who are leading the charge within the Chamber, U.S. Business Roundtable and other Washington lobbyist heavyweights. But since the talks opened in August, the Trump administration – to…
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Transportation equipment financing to remain an attractive option for truckers
2017 was a strong year for the equipment finance industry.