Mexico remained the United States’ largest trading partner in 2025, but policy shifts and enforcement crackdowns reshaped cross-border commerce.
The Senate confirms former Maersk Line executive to lead the Maritime Administration, and the first of two nominees for the Federal Maritime Commission.
New FMCSA guidance mandates brokers using ineligible trust providers must secure a compliant replacement within a 30-day window or face immediate suspension.
Love’s is adding to its factoring business with the acquisition of three companies.
Following its recent acquisition of Nippon Cargo Airlines, All Nippon Airways is moving forward with a restructuring to create a leaner, more focused cargo organization.
REPOWR has released data revealing trends in the market for short-term van rentals.
Skepticism over claimed benefits marked reactions to the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger filing.
The Philadelphia Regional Port Authority announced the retirement of CEO Jeff Theobald, the fourth such leadership change at a North American port this year.
The U.S. ocean container market is a tale of two coasts as carriers manage divergent conditions, notes analyst Xeneta.
Biden’s FMCSA buried a FOIA request seeking to link driving schools to fatality data.
Optimism for 2026 permeates a key conference of the movers and shakers in logistics M&A.
The Surface Transportation Board is asking comments on the completeness of the 7,000-page merger application from Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
This week in Borderlands Mexico: U.S.–Mexico trade stays dominant in September, tops $71B; Maersk opens $15M depot near Port of Manzanillo; and Wayside Distribution Center aims to boost Houston supply chains.
A New York City bill that is seen as targeting Amazon won’t get acted upon this year.
Merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern will create 10,000 single-line rail lanes, annually shifting 105,000 truckloads to rail and improving efficiency by eliminating interchanges.
The merger filing by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern doesn’t change the fact that the merger is bad for the economy and consumers, BNSF CEO Katie Farmer said.
An EEOC action against a carrier that declined to hire a deaf driver will proceed after a judge’s ruling.
FedEx expects to eat $175 million in extra costs to replace capacity caused by the temporary grounding of MD-11 aircraft, but that’s a blip for a company that just reported a $1.6 billion operating income and a 19% gain in adjusted earnings per share.
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern file a comprehensive merger application with the Surface Transportation Board to create America’s first transcontinental railroad.
A Maersk vessel made a successful transit of the Red Sea, but the carrier said it is not ready to commit to a full return to the Suez Canal trade route.
Weak shipment counts have pushed profit expectations lower at FedEx Freight.
The State of Freight webinar took place for the first time in a long time in the midst of a surging market.
Despite trade uncertainty, Port of Los Angeles volume nears 10 million TEUs in 2025, among the top three years in its history.
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern will file their formal merger application Friday with the Surface Transportation Board, detailing historic plans for the first transcontinental railroad.
Nirvana Insurance snags $100M pre-emptive Series D led by Valor Equity, with Lightspeed and General Catalyst joining in. CEO Rushil Goel: AI will redefine underwriting amid 20% rate hikes.
RPM’s second acquisition this month adds more services to the non-asset auto hauler.
The top U.S. East Coast port adds more than three decades to lease with its busiest container terminal operator as it eyes long-term growth.
Ocean Network Express will return to the Red Sea in a slot charter agreement with Regional Container Lines of China
FedEx has adjusted its air network and flying schedule to overcome the loss of grounded MD-11 freighter aircraft, but the changes have overwhelmed staff dedicated to supporting pilots laying over in destination cities.
OTR Solutions is taking a more direct approach to helping carriers understand and defend their pricing in a volatile freight market. The Atlanta-based logistics fintech provider announced a new partnership with FreightWaves SONAR that will embed real-time market rate intelligence directly into the OTR Solutions ecosystem, giving carriers clearer visibility into how their rates stack […]
Two of the largest U.S. railroad unions oppose the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, raising concerns that the first transcontinental rail system could lead to increased safety risks and higher freight rates.
China is pushing for state-owned ship operator Cosco to acquire a controlling stake in a $22.8 billion deal for global ports that include two Panama Canal hubs.
Capacity reductions and additional blanked sailings by carriers struggle to maintain recent General Rate Increases on the trans-Pacific.
The monthly BLS report, catching up on October and November data, showed a steady decline in truck transportation employment.
Cass’ Truckload Linehaul Index has been up on a year-over-year comparison in every month of 2025.
Amazon is giving money-back guarantees to help attract customers to its new wholesale air cargo business, which aims to use unfilled space on its cargo jets with third-party shipments.
Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd said they are eliminating a U.S. East Coast call as the Gemini partners fine-tune North Europe-North America services.
These carriers have the highest crash rates, per FMCSA data.
Brad Jacobs is stepping down as executive chairman of XPO and RXO.
A Texas jury has handed down a roughly $44 million nuclear verdict, most of which will hit carrier New Prime.
Electronic data interchange (EDI) platform Orderful announced Monday it has released its latest integration product, Mosaic, which leverages artificial intelligence to eradicate the mapping experience for its customers. The company plans to use this new product’s AI-native architecture as the foundation for future offerings as well. For decades, electronic data interchange has been the silent […]
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern win the backing of Congressmen from Deep South states where they operate for their controversial transcontinental rail merger.
This week in Borderlands: Customs overhaul may reshape cross-border manufacturing, expert says; Transport Capacity Services opens Monterrey office to boost U.S.–Mexico freight; and WeShip Express relocates headquarters to Austin.
An FMCSA audit found that New York unlawfully issued CDLs to foreign applicants with expired visas, prompting an order to halt issuance or face a loss of funding.
Maersk has appointed a new CFO and shifted regional business leaders, including for North America, as rival carriers chip away at its dominant position in the global shipping business.
A supply and demand imbalance continues to weaken pricing on U.S. container trade routes as ocean carriers chase a softer market with more ships, particularly to the U.S. East Coast, Xeneta data shows.
Ryder System has named John Diez, its current chief operating officer, as the next CEO to succeed Robert Sanchez upon his retirement in March.
PACCAR subsidiaries target delivery, vocational fleets with zero-emission 536EV, T280E and more
Three Teamsters locals have have reached a new deal with Sysco in an unprecedented regional deal.
Union Pacific has set a specific date to submit its application to federal regulators for its merger with Norfolk Southern.
It isn’t often you find Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and New York Attorney General Letitia James on the same side of an issue. But that pairing and numerous others that cross the political divide among the attorneys general of red and blue states and the District of Columbia can be found over the issue […]
A U.S. DOT advisory panel recommended a dedicated truck tunnel under the Hudson River and the creation of 40,000 new truck parking spaces nationwide to be funded by public-private partnerships.
CSX’s new CEO won’t be flying the company jet.
Heartland Express announced it will integrate and rebrand Contract Freighters, Inc. in an effort to stem a prolonged stretch of financial losses.
Enterprise Mobility has entered the heavy-truck transportation market with the acquisition of lessor and dedicated provider Hogan.
Innoviz Technologies deal integrates short-range sensors with Torc’s virtual driver, part of Daimler Truck’s broader strategy to bring its autonomous trucks to market
The convicted founder of logistics platform Slync.io lost an appeal to a three-judge federal panel.
Temperature-controlled REIT Lineage projects the rollout of LinOS across approximately half of its warehouses will deliver $110 million in incremental EBITDA.
30 autonomous trucks to haul proppants nonstop on public roads in deal with Detmar Logistics
The next upturn in the trucking industry could be driven by the supply side, a pattern observed in the past three upcycles, according to a report released Monday by Morgan Stanley.
Year-over-year declines in import cargo volume at major container ports are expected to continue in 2026 due to the impact of tariffs and ongoing trade policy uncertainty.
Three executives downloaded more than 20,000 files before leaving o9 Solutions for SAP.
Chassis provider TRAC has had its debt rating cut by Moody’s.
Why not include a preventable crash rate in CSA scores?
A recent uptick in eastbound container rates couldn’t offset trans-Pacific prices that are 20%-30% lower than a month ago.
This week in Borderlands: Trump mulls scrapping USMCA as industry groups push for renewal; DP World opens Querétaro warehouse to support Mexico’s nearshoring boom; and East Coast Warehouse & Distribution launches first Texas operation.
Over the weekend, two Minnesota-based carriers under the True North Equity Partners umbrella ceased operations overnight, putting approximately 200 drivers out of work. MinStar Transport and Transport Design Inc., each operating fleets of around 100 trucks, announced their immediate closures in communications to employees and partners, according to multiple reports circulating in trucking communities on […]
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with hundreds of senior executives at America’s largest trucking companies. Nearly all say they only recently discovered the massive influx of foreign drivers and motor carriers. Most assumed the trend was gradual; none realized it was exponential. Few had ever heard the term “non-domiciled CDL” until this summer […]
The owner of an Ohio trucking company has been sentenced to 30 months for income tax evasion.
RXO credit rating faces challenges, while C.H. Robinson continues to shine.
With fresh memories of the fatal crash of a freighter aircraft last month, UPS pilots and the company have resumed collective bargaining with the help of the National Mediation Board.
ATLANTA – Transportation Insight Holdings, LLC (together with its affiliates, the “Company”), a leading provider of non-asset, tech-enabled logistics and brokerage solutions in North America servicing more than 14,000 shippers and over 80,000 carriers through Transportation Insight (“TI”), Nolan Transportation Group (“NTG”), and its proprietary Beon™ Digital Logistics Platform (“Beon”), on Thursday announced that Alan […]
Trucking executives say surging transient foreign labor, fraudulent CDLs and lax oversight have been undercutting legitimate U.S. carriers.
Hapag-Lloyd wants to buy Israel’s Zim container line, but Arab investment in the German company could push a deal to another suitor.
A global ocean container index rose 7% amid rate adjustments on key trans-Pacific and Asia–Europe routes.
I screwed up. Yesterday, the FreightWaves team was informed by a source we considered credible that CRST was shutting down a significant portion of its operations—what we understood to be its entire over-the-road (OTR) division. Unfortunately, the article was written in a way that made it easy to misinterpret as the entire company closing. That’s […]
J.B. Hunt Transport Services declined to take a stab at what next year holds at an investor conference this week, but did emphasize that it’s “set up to win” regardless of what the new year brings.
The 4Q credit metrics in BMO’s transportation sector, a major lender to trucking, were significantly worse in many areas.
As an historic merger is set to reshape the U.S. supply chain, railroads say data proves they are the engine that powers the domestic economy.
Port of Long Beach second-in-command Noel Hacegaba is moving up to chief executive as Mario Cordero departs.
CRST confirms redistribution of assets in its fleet, reduction of almost 200 trucks from OTR business unit.
American exporters of soybeans, fertilizer, lumber and other agricultural products are looking to a better year after being caught in a geopolitical squeeze in 2025.
The Supreme Court got its first legal arguments as it takes up the issue of broker liability.
Michigan EV truck maker ceases operations, leaving parent company Bollinger Innovations’ future uncertain
The railroads had expected to file their formal merger application with the Surface Transportation Board this week.
Container ships sailing through the Suez Canal marked the second-lowest weekly level amid talk of a return by the largest box carriers through the Mideast trade route.
SONAR goes much deeper in volume data with a new tender source.
Amazon is testing an ultra-fast delivery service in Seattle and Philadelphia, but in the United Arab Emirates shoppers the service is so fast shoppers can get orders within 15 minutes.
Transportation capacity remained level in November while prices jumped, according to a monthly survey of supply chain managers.
Amazon and the Teamsters faced off this fall in various venues, with a mixed outcome.
U.S. ports urge strict evaluation by Surface Transportation Board of proposed transcontinental rail merger, cautioning on impact to the supply chain and economy.
The FMCSA announced Monday a “complete overhaul” of the ELD approval process, implementing pre-publication vetting. This comes after the agency has revoked 308 devices from the approved list.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found FMCSA likely violated federal law when it attempted to eliminate approximately 200,000 commercial driver licenses without following standard procedures. The November 13 emergency stay revealed failures that leave 200,000 drivers in legal limbo while courts define the boundaries of administrative power during claimed emergencies.
Department of Homeland Security agents are conducting aggressive workplace audits across Northern and Central California trucking companies, with a heavy focus on Punjabi-owned carriers, according to a detailed account aired November 28 on Punjab Radio USA. Harpreet Thera, owner of a mid-sized fleet operating since 1997, told the station that DHS served him with a […]
Container rates on the benchmark Asia-U.S. container trade route fell due to overcapacity, while a Red Sea return may pressure rates, and congestion.
This week in Borderlands Mexico: Truckers lift nationwide blockades after reaching deal; Jisu Fortune arrives in Mexico with more than 5,000 vehicles from China; and Dual Borgstena opens a new automotive plant in Coahuila, creating up to 900 jobs.
The Administration has announced a major new initiative targeting the financial channels used by undocumented immigrants, marking a strategic and powerful shift in enforcement priorities. Moving beyond traditional border security measures, this action focuses on financial institutions and money transmitters that facilitate the transfer of funds from undocumented workers to their home countries, effectively targeting […]
FedEx has removed MD-11 freighter flights from its December schedule. The carrier could be without the freighters for a long time as aviation authorities investigate the cause of the recent UPS MD-11 crash.
NJ truck driving school settlement resolves lawsuit over driver misclassification.
Airbus outlined plans for the final stretch of development for its next-generation A350 freighter, which has 82 customer orders so far.
