The shift of production from China to southeast Asia is unlikely to stop the trans-Pacific container market from declining this year.
The latest Cass outlook signals “economic contraction,” but the heads at some of the nation’s largest truckload carriers see a different path.
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller joins the ‘On the Spot’ crew at FreightWaves Live in Chicago to deliver the weekly freight rates report.
Asia-Europe and Asia-U.S. spot freight rates jumped 12-30% last week, but can carriers hold on to the gains?
Determining freight class is a key to shipping freight successfully. Learn more about the processes involved in this article.
Maritime carriers are leaving up to US$110 on the table every time they carry a box, according to research from startup MizzenIT. And that means ocean carriers could be missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars a year simply by not charging the right price.
An influx of new container ships has hiked the average size of vessels deployed on the trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe trades, reports Alphaliner.
FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller and associate editor JP Hampstead recap the week in freight.
Market Voice Jim Blaze contents that railroads are using the wrong KPIs to increase volume and capture market share from trucks.
Asia-U.S. container rates are still not showing peak-season strength, but optimism remains.
The FreightWaves Freight Intel Group’s latest research shows that a freight recession is taking place.
The volatile 2018 freight market is still being felt throughout the nations trucking industry. The freight futures settlement
The US logistics industry is making strides in overcoming macro volatility by a focus on IT improvements and shipper-carrier relationships
A.L.A. Trucking’s 41 drivers and 15 other employees will lose their jobs in the layoff, owner Alan Adams confirmed late Wednesday night.
There are some positive signs for shipping rates, but overall, disappointment prevails.
Fuller says the new database on drug and alcohol tests will slice capacity by 10%.
April shipments were down 3.2 percent year-over-year, prompting Boughton to acknowledge “material and growing downside risk to the economic outlook” in the latest Cass Freight Index Report.
The relationship between truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) is like two cities positioned around the epicenter of an earthquake.
National spot market price movement has a surprisingly tight relationship with new truck orders.
