AskWaves

AskWaves looks at some of the catalysts that have heated up M&A in the transportation space.

Some public shipowners are turning toward more diverse fleets. Others are moving in the opposite direction.

Electric vehicle technology is advancing rapidly, but some wonder whether the batteries can get the job done in harsh environments.

AskWaves dives into the 2,500-page Build Back Better Act to uncover the top 10 funding opportunities directed at freight and supply chains.

Repeated floods last month in the Pacific Northwest have triggered road closures, supply chain disruptions and evacuations.

Hedge funds and retail investors led the takeoff in transportation SPACs that are barely staying aloft. Guess who gets the better end of that deal?

The clock is ticking for truckers to upgrade or replace their third-generation (3G)-reliant ELDs — or face possible hours-of-service violations — as major cellular providers move to 5G network services in 2022.

Green bonds are designed to help companies fund environmentally sustainable projects that often have higher upfront costs.

Air transport is usually the mode of last resort because it is expensive. The pandemic has turned that thinking upside down.

AskWaves: The behemoths ordinarily shouldn’t be concerned about a national delivery network forged out of the OnTrac-LaserShip merger. But these are not ordinary times.

The Great Lakes could be a trouble region for truckers, based on NOAA’s winter outlook.

Port congestion forced container ships to go faster. Congestion remains extreme, yet ships are slowing down.

AskWaves takes a look at which rate-per-mile metrics to use out of the information public carriers disclose quarterly.

U.S. border officials handle regulated garbage and quarantine materials in order to prevent foreign pests and diseases from entering the country.

The freight and supply chain sector is often categorized as “hard to abate” when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. AskWaves digs into why that is.

Media coverage increasingly links consumer price inflation to container shipping and supply chain chaos.

Crews have to “contain” wildfires before they can extinguish them. This installment of AskWaves explains why — and what “containment” means.

As freight congestion weakens transportation links, AskWaves looks at potential federal funding options for supporting a move to 24/7 operations.

Some argue that Amazon lacks the integrated network to pull it off. But betting against the company has generally been a losing proposition.

AskWaves talks with an expert to learn how the Global Logistics Emissions Council provides a single framework for supply chains around the world to track emissions.