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But…but…shipbuilding! Democrats want China port tax reinstated
Leading Democratic senators have called for the U.S. to reinstate a tax on Chinese ships after Trump and Xi agreed to a mutual postponement through November.
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PepsiCo and Gatik launch commercial driverless trucking deployment
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LTL general rate increases no longer an annual event
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SONAR Launches Accepted Truckload Volume Index to Close the Gap Between Tendered and Moving Freight
Tender acceptance rates have long signaled stress in the truckload market — but until now, users had no direct index tracking the volume of freight that actually cleared that process and moved. SONAR’s new Accepted SONAR Truckload Volume Index (ASTVI) fills that gap. The dataset family isolates accepted truckload demand by stripping out rejection activity, […]
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