Hurricanes
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Supply Chains
Commentary: Are the cycles of destruction to Louisiana’s freight infrastructure inevitable?
In the wake of Hurricane Barry, Brian Aoaeh writes about the disruption to supply chains that hurricanes and flooding can…
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Today’s Pickup: Barclays predicts oil price to reach $70 next year
Barclays forecasts a drop in oil price; China is witnessing a historic fall in auto sales over stock market crash…
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Today’s Pickup: Panama City braces for Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael is forecast to make landfall as a strengthening Category 4; Sears may go bankrupt; retailers struggle to fill…
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Hurricane Michael threatens Georgia, SC cotton harvest
Hurricane Michael’s forecasted track will take it right over the primary cotton producing region in Georgia and South Carolina, and…
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Driver issues
Today’s Pickup: Michael rowing its boat ashore, a Europe investigation sees a “sweatshop”
In Today’s Pickup: Michael is headed toward the Gulf, a quote by Hunter Harrison and a not-complimentary look at the…
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DTN: Florence to shift southward after landfall, threaten Charleston
Models predicting Hurricane Florence’s track are shifting the storm southward after it makes landfall, where it will hug the South…
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All signs point to non-existent hurricane season for transport & logistics
Good news for coastal residents, but bad news for carriers that made a lot of money on hurricanes last year:…
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Adding context, advanced warning to weather events remains AccuWeather’s goal for enterprises
While carriers and shippers can’t change the weather, they can learn to work with it – or at least around…
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Autonomous Trucking
A look back at 2017: What stories most interested FreightWaves’ readers?
FreightWaves’ readers made the past year a great one for our young brand. Today, we take a fond look back…
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Weather analytics company helped clients ride out the storms–literally
Riskpulse, the leader in providing weather risk analytics for supply chains, has issued a retrospective report discussing how they advised…
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