Trucking is among the most fragmented industries on the planet. Growing up, I was told that there would be massive consolidation in the trucking industry following deregulation in 1980… Read More

Note: This article about the freight sentiment indexes was published before UPS and the Teamsters announced they had reached a tentative agreement. Entering the third quarter of 2023… Read More

While rail service has improved for agricultural and grain shippers in 2023 compared with last year, ongoing service issues warrant continued attention and regulatory action, rail shippe… Read More

CVSA International Roadcheck is next week (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) is holding its annual International Roadcheck next Tuesday throu… Read More

Martin Q1 earnings: More miles, less operating income (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) Earnings season is upon us and the freight recession lingers worse than salmonella-carrying potato… Read More

Competition for air cargo business in the Greater Chicago area is heating up with Milwaukee’s main airport planning to build a large terminal for freighter aircraft and poach traffic… Read More

“It’s like when you were a little kid and played a game where you laid siege to a castle and you surrounded it, trying to starve the people out. But in this siege — Russia… Read More

HMM on Monday reported “strong results for 2022,” including a 34.8% year-over-year gain in operating profit. But to clarify, the South Korean ocean carrier had strong results fo… Read More

 Finnish (endonym: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] (listen) or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of t… Read More

Chart of the Week: Outbound Tender Volume Index – USA, Texas, California SONAR: OTVI.USA, OTVI.TX, OTVI.CA Tender volumes for loads originating in Texas are currently… Read More

Shipping stocks swooned when Chinese protesters took to the streets. But the civil unrest is turning out to be a positive: The Chinese government is loosening COVID restrictions faster t… Read More

A Coast Guard investigation has determined that the pilot guiding the Ever Forward out of Maryland’s Craighill Channel in March spent much of the voyage taking personal phone calls… Read More

September is usually a strong month for West Coast imports as U.S. companies bring in their year-end holiday goods. Not so in 2022. On Wednesday, the Port of Los Angeles reported its lowe… Read More

U.S. truckload capacity has continued to loosen in November as tender rejection rates fall and spot rates find a new floor.  Freight brokers told FreightWaves that shippers are work… Read More