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ELD impact substantive but short-lived, Hunt, NS executives say.

Port truck operators could potentially increase their wages by using a new service from NEXT that helps them run shorter runs and return to ports with empty containers. The company just secured $97 million in funding to help it expand.

In partnership with Blume Global… In our view, increased digitization can make drayage markets more transparent and improve asset utilization, making carrier offerings more attractive on both a cost and service basis.

Company makes fourth acquisition in 2018.

Also in the pickup: Morgan Stanley index, and a move back to sailing across the ocean.

It is a significant widening of activities at the TraPac facility.

A panel of experts from all sides of the market confronts the driver squeeze, and says productivity improvements could be like adding new drivers.

Technology firms aim to ease process of managing multiple carriers in regional markets.

Uber Freight is gobbling up $500M per year; the US and China hit each other with a new round of tariffs; Georgia Ports extends its inland intermodal network; Saudi Arabia’s Aramco IPO indefinitely delayed; cannabis supply chains mature; Houston is now an oil exporter.

Universal is bullish on its intermodal division, and the Southern Counties acquisition will allow it to expand its footprint in that area.

All of the metrics were strongly positive, but the CEO expressed disappointment with two of its main activities, automotive and dedicated

FreightWaves data scientists are using GPS data to better understand truck movements through the busiest ports in North America—origin and destination, lanes, and the time it takes to get freight into retailers’ DC networks.

Outbound container volumes at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach reached 13 month highs, a sign that shippers want to move good before the gates close.

A usually non-controversial granting of free trade zone status is denied in the latest skirmish in the “drayage wars.”