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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

Titan Transfer Buys TMAF Trailer Wraps to Promote Trucking

Titan Transfer announced it has purchased three trailer wraps to help promote the Trucking Moves America Forward image campaign.

August 17, 2015

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, Equipment

Trucking Companies Plan to Add Trailers as Drivers Remain Scarce

Trucking companies are planning to add trailers and capacity as the driver shortage continues, according to a new survey.

August 13, 2015
Business, Logistics

Intermodal Rail Traffic Rises 3.1% for Week, AAR Says

Weekly U.S. intermodal rail traffic rose 3.1% from the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.

August 13, 2015
Business, Logistics

Maersk Earnings Show Company Defying Market Headwinds

A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S, owner of the world’s largest container line, said profit exceeded estimates despite a slump in freight rates.

August 13, 2015
Business, Logistics

China Shipping Merger Still Leaves Capacity Challenge in Place

China could be creating Asia’s biggest container shipping company through a merger of two titans. But the plan doesn’t address the central issue confronting the industry for at least five years now: too many ships, with too much cargo space, plying the seas.

August 13, 2015
Business, Logistics

Hub Group's Mark Yeager Steps Down as President, COO

Mark Yeager has resigned as president and chief operating officer of Hub Group and will be replaced on an interim basis by his brother, David Yeager. 

August 11, 2015
Government, Business, Logistics

TT Archives: ATA National Roadeo

Competition wasn’t as fierce 40 years ago as 171 drivers from 33 states competed in Indianapolis for what would become the National Truck Driving Championships in 1985.

August 10, 2015
Business, Logistics

Saddle Creek Expands at Illinois Logistics Center

The Joliet, Illinois, Intermodal Center operated by CenterPoint Properties is being expanded again with a groundbreaking for Saddle Creek Logistics Services’ 1.11-million-square-foot distribution facility project.

August 7, 2015
Business, Logistics

Weekly Intermodal Rail Traffic Declines for First Time in Five Months

Weekly U.S. intermodal rail traffic declined from the same period last year for the first time in five months, but increased in July, the Association of American Railroads reported.

August 6, 2015
Business, Logistics

XPO Sets $23 Billion Revenue Target, Reports 2Q Loss

Fast-growing XPO Logistics Inc., which grew to a $9 billion annual revenue business from $175 million less than four years ago, has set a $23 billion annual revenue target by the end of 2019, CEO Bradley Jacobs told Transport Topics on Aug. 5.

Rip Watson | Special to Transport Topics
August 5, 2015