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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.
 

Business, Logistics, TCA

Houston to Get Service From Great Britain’s Cargo Airline CargoLogicAir

CargoLogicAir, Great Britain’s all-cargo airline, will begin service this month out of Bush Intercontinental Airport after a deal finalized during Mayor Sylvester Turner’s European trade mission in July.

Ileana Najarro | Houston Chronicle
August 15, 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.

Business, Logistics

Target Acquires Software Firm Grand Junction With Sights Set on Amazon

Target Corp. agreed to acquire a software company that manages local and same-day deliveries in a bid to keep pace with Amazon and Wal-Mart.

Matthew Boyle | Bloomberg News
August 15, 2017
Government, Business, Logistics

US Pursuing Aggressive Timeline for Wrapping Up NAFTA Talks

The U.S. is heading into the first round of talks on an updated North American Free Trade Agreement with an aggressive timeline for completing talks with Mexico and Canada, a Trump administration official said.

Andrew Mayeda | Bloomberg News
August 15, 2017
Business, Technology, Fuel, Logistics

How Elon Musk and Cheap Oil Doomed the Push for Natural Gas Vehicles

The idea was nothing short of revolutionary: Convert the nation’s millions of trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles to run on natural gas instead of gasoline and diesel.

Patrick Martin | Bloomberg News
August 15, 2017
Business, Technology, Logistics

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Elected to Logistics Hall of Fame

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has been elected to the Logistics Hall of Fame.

August 14, 2017
Business, Logistics, TCA

Oil Company Beefs Up Infrastructure to Get Trucks Off Crowded Roads

For many drillers in the remote Delaware Basin, a section of the broader Permian Basin that stretches across West Texas and New Mexico, the only way to get crude from the fringes of oil boom towns to global markets is to dispatch fleets of trucks to scattered wells, from where they haul oil and water to terminals and various other collection points.

Collin Eaton | Houston Chronicle
August 14, 2017
Business, Logistics, TCA

FedEx Competing in Tight Labor Market to Staff Round-the-Clock Memphis World Hub

FedEx scheduled at least its fourth job fair of the year Aug. 12 to hire for 800 openings at its Memphis hub. The number of permanent, part-time jobs was the same as in June, down from 1,000 in April and up from 600 in January.

Wayne Risher | The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
August 14, 2017
Business, Logistics

TPG Capital to Acquire 3PL Firm Transplace

TPG Capital, a global private equity platform, has agreed to acquire Transplace, a provider of transportation management and other third-party logistics services.

August 14, 2017
Government, Business, Logistics, TCA

Mexico Is Ready for NAFTA Balancing Act

There was excitement in the air when Mexican negotiators sat down 25 years ago with their counterparts from Canada and the United States to hammer out what would become the North American Free Trade Agreement.

August 14, 2017
Business, Logistics, TCA

Enterprise Adding 40 Locations Nationwide as Truck Rental Business Grows

Enterprise Holdings, best known for renting cars to vacationers and business travelers, is growing its truck rental business for corporate customers and people moving household goods and boats.

August 14, 2017