Freight

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    Carriers upgrade border shipping amid tariff tumult

    Estes Express Lines and Pitt Ohio rolled out new services focused on Canada and Mexico, respectively.

    By • March 18, 2025
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    Trade tensions prompt air cargo market uncertainty

    Freight forwarders and shippers are delaying contract negotiations, while carriers assess summer schedules, according to Xeneta.

    By • March 18, 2025
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    Peak season management

    Higher peak season surcharges are one risk for shippers to manage this year.

    By Supply Chain Dive staff
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    Amazon’s LTL pursuit threatens to shuffle retail volumes in market

    The company could upend the industry sector just by handling its own shipments.

    By • March 17, 2025
  • NMFTA Director of Product Holly Taylor demonstrates the ClassIT+ tool at the group's Spring Meeting in Clearwater Beach, Florida.
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    NMFTA aims to simplify freight classification with new tool

    The ClassIT+ platform, coming this summer, contains several upgrades intended to ease changes for shippers and carriers.

    By • March 14, 2025
  • A container ship sits docked at the Port of Oakland on Dec. 9, 2024.
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    Retailers to continue frontloading amid tariff tumult: forecast

    A sustained cargo surge at U.S. ports will continue as Trump administration policy uncertainty continues, per the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates' Global Port Tracker.

    By • March 10, 2025
  • Trucks drive across the U.S.-Mexico border on Feb. 1, 2025, in San Diego.
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    Tariffs create frenzy in cross-border trucking

    Some customers have seen an increase in wait times at the U.S.-Mexico border, while others are adjusting to avoid higher duties.

    By , • March 10, 2025
  • The CMA CGM Argentina container ship arrives at PortMiami.
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    CMA CGM to invest $20B in US operations

    The company will use the money to expand its U.S. flag fleet and logistics capacity at a time when President Donald Trump is pushing for maritime expansion.

    By • March 10, 2025
  • A BNSF executive speaks at a committee hearing in Washington D.C.
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    Cargo theft reaching record levels, prompting calls for congressional action

    Carriers and shippers urged congress to combat the issue by stepping up enforcement and creating a task force.

    By • March 7, 2025
  • Two trucks pass each other at night on a rain-covered highway near Chicago.
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    5 ways truck brokers are using AI to boost efficiency

    Companies like C.H. Robinson and ITS Logistics are turning to the technology to improve freight matching, trailer management and more.

    By • March 5, 2025
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    CBP prepares to enforce Canada, Mexico tariffs

    The agency revealed its planned changes to the harmonized tariff schedule in a federal register notice hours before the March 4 start date.

    By • March 3, 2025
  • Aerial view of shipping containers on trucks and rail cars near a port.
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    Warehouse capacity resilient in the face of shipper frontloading

    Tariffs are pushing retailers to pull cargo forward to ease supply chain disruptions but, thus far, the pressure on supply chain facilities has been marginal, experts say.

    By • Feb. 27, 2025
  • Jamieson Greer testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Feb. 6 in Washington, DC.
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    Jamieson Greer confirmed as USTR

    Greer takes on the post as the administration readies new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China.

    By • Feb. 27, 2025
  • A side view of a large Amazon Prime tractor-trailer, with motion blur on the background as it passes on Interstate 40 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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    Amazon sets sights on LTL market

    The e-commerce giant could launch the potentially disruptive transportation product in 2026, according to J.P. Morgan analysts.

    By • Feb. 27, 2025
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    ILA-USMX port labor talks

    ILA, USMX sign 6-year labor contract

    Approval of the contract ends months of uncertainty surrounding East and Gulf Coast ports and fears of a possible second strike.

    By • Updated March 13, 2025
  • A green truck labeled Standard Forwarding Freight, LLC is parked on a lot.
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    DHL sells 91-year-old Midwest LTL carrier

    New owner Sakaem Holdings rebranded Standard Forwarding, which provides next-day and second-day shipping in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

    By • Feb. 26, 2025
  • Tractor-trailers parked near a gas station on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 2024.
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    Where are trucking rates headed in 2025? 7 execs weigh in

    Leaders at several trucking companies have expressed optimism for gradual pricing increases this year.

    By • Feb. 26, 2025
  • XPO driver Steadman "Steve" Mitchell scans a pallet of cup lids as it comes off his truck at M&K Food.
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    Trucking executives answer questions on upcoming freight classification changes

    Leaders at Estes Express Lines, XPO and Old Dominion Freight Line recently discussed the NMFC shift looming this summer.

    By • Feb. 25, 2025
  • A tractor-trailer crosses an international border barrier between the U.S. and Mexico by a welcome sign in Spanish.
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    Tariffs prompt cross-border contract uncertainty: Ryder

    CEO and Chairman Robert Sanchez said it’s possible tariffs with North America neighbors might not even occur.

    By • Feb. 21, 2025
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    Is cross-border e-commerce air cargo demand at risk?

    The looming demise of the de minimis exemption could spur higher costs and delays, said Xeneta’s Niall van de Wouw.

    By • Feb. 20, 2025
  • An Old Dominion Freight Line truck pulls two trailers
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    Industrial demand picks up at last, some trucking companies report

    Softness in the manufacturing sector has been a centerpiece of a two-year freight recession, so carriers hope rising demand is here to stay.

    By • Feb. 18, 2025
  • A FedEx Freight tractor-trailer drives on the road. The industry will be closely watching the LTL carrier's spinoff in the next 18 months.
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    Competitors weigh in on impending FedEx spinoff

    Old Dominion, Saia, XPO and ArcBest all fielded questions from analysts about how the move might affect their operations and the broader LTL market.

    By • Feb. 12, 2025
  • A truck drives inside a container terminal in Long Beach.
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    ONE teams with LX Pantos for US intermodal services

    Through their Boxlinks joint venture, both companies intend to leverage existing partnerships with Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and BNSF.

    By • Feb. 12, 2025
  • A full container vessel transiting through the New York harbor.
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    ILA-USMX port labor talks

    ILA to vote on contract Feb. 25

    The International Longshoremen’s Association’s wage scale committee unanimously approved the proposed agreement ahead of the ratification vote.

    By • Feb. 12, 2025
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    HMM, ONE, Yang Ming alliance now effective, FMC says

    The agreement connecting the carriers’ mainline services across major trades lanes to Asia took effect Sunday, the agency said.

    By • Feb. 11, 2025
  • A truck drives past a row of containers on rail cars.
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    Trump’s tariff orders feature key clause for logistics managers

    Goods in transit from China will not be subject to tariffs if shippers can certify they were sent prior to Feb. 1.

    By , • Feb. 4, 2025