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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

Government, Business, Equipment, Logistics

How Trump Getting His Way on NAFTA Would Reshape the Auto Sector

Mexico, Canada and the U.S. are at loggerheads after the latest round of NAFTA negotiations, with America’s neighbors rejecting hard-line proposals by the Trump administration that risk throwing automotive trade on the continent into disarray.

October 18, 2017

Infographic: Ryder’s Foundation for a Successful Freight Brokerage

Globally, supply chains are facing unprecedented levels of disruption. As a result, shippers and carriers are challenged more than ever to keep goods moving while remaining profitable. While most brokerages point to technology as the key to achieving success, today’s setbacks have proven that technology alone isn’t enough.

Government, Business, Logistics

NAFTA Deadlock Dashes Hopes for a Quick Deal

NAFTA talks are switching gears and slowing down as key obstacles emerge, with Canada and Mexico rejecting what they see as hard-line U.S. proposals and negotiators exchanging their strongest public barbs yet.

October 18, 2017
Business, Logistics

SoCal Port Turn Times Improve Six Minutes in September

Truck drivers took six fewer minutes to enter and exit the two large Southern California ports last month compared with September 2016, although one year ago, Hanjin Shipping rattled the supply chain when it abruptly shut its doors Aug. 31.

Ari Ashe | Staff Reporter
October 18, 2017
Government, Business, Logistics

Mexico and Canada Reject US NAFTA Demands

The ministers leading NAFTA negotiations ended the latest round of high-level talks saying they’re extending discussions into the first quarter of 2018 to resolve differences after Canada and Mexico rejected what they see as hardline U.S. proposals.

October 17, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment, Logistics, TCA

Anheuser-Busch Taps Seattle Trucking Startup Convoy to Transport Beer

Anheuser-Busch has signed a multi-year partnership with Seattle-based trucking startup Convoy to transport beer.

Lisa Brown | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 17, 2017
Government, Business, Logistics, TCA

Commercial Processing at Tornillo US-Mexico Port of Entry Suspended for ‘Lack of Demand’

In the years leading up to the construction of an about $133 million port of entry in Tornillo, Texas, county leaders talked about the need for a bridge that would alleviate commercial traffic at other border crossings in El Paso.

Aileen B. Flores | El Paso (Texas) Times
October 17, 2017
Business, Logistics

Dragon Capital Invests in New Shipping Platform

Dragon Capital Investments Ltd. has agreed to buy a minority stake in ShipNEXT, a web-based shipping platform developed by Varamar Group in Odessa, Ukraine.

October 16, 2017
Government, Logistics

NAFTA Talks Left Reeling After Aggressive US Proposals Land

After laying out the Trump administration’s most aggressive NAFTA demands to date, chief U.S. negotiator John Melle was asked on Oct. 15 how things are progressing. “Fabulous,” he said, smiling and shrugging before entering a negotiating room once more.

October 16, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment, Logistics, Autonomous

Nvidia's Powerful New Computer to Power DHL Autonomous Delivery Vehicles

Nvidia Corp. said Oct. 10 it’s helping Deutsche Post AG and its subsidiary DHL automate their fleet of electric delivery vehicles with a powerful new computer.

Ian King | Bloomberg News
October 13, 2017
Business, Logistics, TCA

Magnum Trucking Breaks Ground on Minnesota Terminal

With mounds of dirt and heavy machinery in the background, civic leaders gathered Oct .12 to welcome regional shipping giant Magnum Trucking to Bemidji, Minn.

Jordan Shearer | The Bemidji (Minn.) Pioneer
October 13, 2017