On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the need for speed and safety. FreightWaves reporter Grace Sharkey has the scoop on the project44 and Tive car that will be racing at the NASCAR Cup Series’ midsummer installment,…
Cannabis provider The Parent Company announced Friday its expansion into the greater San Diego area via its new Chula Vista delivery hub. The new hub will utilize The Parent Company subsidiary Caliva’s on-demand, direct-to-consumer platform, servicing 3.3 million additional residents…
Kansas City Southern still anticipates double-digit revenue growth for 2021 amid favorable macroeconomic indicators, executives said during its second-quarter 2021 earnings call on Friday. But KCS (NYSE: KSU) adjusted its 2021 target operating ratio to about 60% from earlier guidance…
Despite its growing infatuation with technology, logistics continues to be a relationship-based industry at its core. As with all professional relationships are changeable and sometimes strained. Relationships between logistics providers and customers are especially susceptible to disruption during times of…
FedEx Express, the air and international unit of FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX), said Friday that it has made a $100 million equity investment in Indian transport and logistics firm Delhivery, and that the FedEx unit’s Indian operation will operate an integrated…
Grocery distribution to Fred Meyer stores in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska could be disrupted starting Sunday if unionized warehouse workers vote to strike after talks on a new contract broke down. Meanwhile, spokespersons said representatives for the Teamsters union…
As the last mile of delivery continues to evolve, fully autonomous and remote-controlled delivery vehicles will soon be making their way to the streets. But who is driving those vehicles and do they know what they are doing? In the…
Congress received an on-the-ground report from an industrial shipper on how rapid price increases for goods and services can be traced directly to bottlenecks in the supply chain. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday, William Taylor, CEO of…
The underlying technologies that are fueling the urban air mobility (UAM) sector are still in their infancy in many cases, but they will be the base upon which the future movement of people and goods depend. The ability of UAM…
Yesterday’s FreightWaves article was FreightWaves Classics: Aviation begins; air cargo follows quickly (Part 1). In Part 2, the article continues with the post-World War II era. Post-World War II The International Air Traffic Association was founded in 1919, the year…
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