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It’s shut down businesses and thrown planning into turmoil.  No, it’s not COVID-19. It’s the rising insurance rates that trucking companies have been facing over the last few years. The problem seems to have gotten particularly acute in the last year or two and insurance rates have been cited by several trucking companies as a […]

Halt of cruise voyages will slash HFO demand, a positive for cargo ships with scrubbers.

Exemption needed to protect against COVID-19-related fuel shortages, groups assert.

Lev Aslan Dermen was convicted on multiple charges involving business connections to brothers Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, who were convicted in 2018 for their role in a massive biodiesel tax scheme.

For fleets that run throughout the day and need high utilization, hydrogen fuel cells offer great value for investment, while also creating zero emissions.

‘Non-exhaust’ emissions garner attention as major source of air pollution

Plus: Amazon VP of delivery experience departs; Western Star teases new vocational truck

FreightWaves has found a correlation between freight rates and diesel prices that aren’t necessarily beneficial to drivers.

Levy is kept modest as report warns high rate would lead to diversions.

Directive follows unsuccessful legislative efforts to pass cap-and-trade bill

Tanker rates are back in the stratosphere as the Saudis move ahead with production push.

Ship scrubbers no longer equate to big savings on fuel costs. Is this only temporary?

Deliveries of contracted freight with actual trucks will be the focus of the three-year partnership.

Saudi Arabia’s actions have sent markets plunging on top of earlier declines.

OPEC recommended steep cuts and a Russian-led group balked.

By providing leases that include hydrogen and maintenance for its fuel cell electric trucks for seven years, Nikola projects it will generate $3 billion in revenue by 2024.

Green delivery vehicle arms race heats up

Matthew Taylor of Shintan Inc. was ordered by the U.S. Department of Justice to pay back $7.5 million in illicit tax credits obtained from the IRS.

After shunning public ownership, fuel cell truck startup Nikola watched as the WeWork debacle made private fundraising harder. Its merger with VectoIQ brings in about $700 million to help pay to build Nikola’s Class 8 truck plant and the beginning of a hydrogen fuel station network.