The new rail hub is designed to respond to a growing need to expand domestic intermodal capacity within the greater Seattle region.
Truckers may hit delays in the Northwest as the risk of additional flooding continues (video forecast included).
Global logistics provider Expeditors International shut down most of its operations systems after a cyberattack, limiting the ability to book shipments.
Repeated floods last month in the Pacific Northwest have triggered road closures, supply chain disruptions and evacuations.
Truckers will continue to hit areas of flooding due to ongoing rain in the saturated Pacific Northwest (video forecast included).
Truckers heading to the Northwest will have to beat triple-digit, record-breaking heat later this week (forecast video included).
River flooding possible this week in Northwest freight markets along the I-5 corridor.
1981: Civic pride and more than a little politicking have scuttled — at least temporarily — a controversial proposal to study whether the competing Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma should cooperate and, ultimately, merge.
Bulkloads.com has rolled out the first phase of a planned TMS system to ease document transfer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus, ports see container declines, diesel prices fall again and Ikea looking at buying malls.
Snowstorm may briefly throw off balanced Seattle market.
Rates inbound to Seattle, California, and New York are climbing rapidly.
Lime’s shift away from car-sharing allows the company to transition into Seattle’s first electric-scooter-share pilot.
Competition from other grain-producing countries weigh on U.S. grain exports – and on U.S. rail volumes for grain.
GSC handles 12 percent of import containers in Oakland, but its leadership is concerned about plans to build a baseball stadium on port property,
The Urban Freight Lab (UFL) is hosting its third annual Tech Day: Transforming the Final 50 Feet of Delivery, a pitch competition for innovators improving the last leg of the urban goods delivery system, also known as the final 50 feet. That stretch begins at the load/unload space located at the curb, in an alley […]
Good Day, On July 5, 1995 Jeff Bezos left his job at a hedge fund in New York, drove across the country and launched an online book selling business from his garage in a Seattle suburb. On the occasion of Amazon’s 25th birthday, Inc. Magazine has put together a list of fun facts reminding us […]
Plus: Port of Everett lands new tenant; biodiesel trumps other clean fuels in California and Europe gets a luxury CBD e-commerce site
Shareholders voted against climate change proposals backed by the e-retailer’s own employees.
Plus: Logistics execs and blockchain; Lilium air takes off; redesigning cities for scooters.
Amazon’s outsize presence in Seattle has yet to translate into a new wave of start-ups but that is expected to change as the tech giant’s relationship with the city enters a new phase and the region’s venture capital ecosystem matures.
National freight volumes pulled back a bit this week after a strong start to March. Not all areas of the country are having the same experience.
For the second time in several weeks, Amazon has pulled out of a huge real estate deal many thought was a sure thing.
Several feet of snow, powerful winds heading to the Sierras this weekend. Pacific Northwest will get its share, too, including Seattle.
Around a foot of snow coming to the Olympic Mountains this weekend, but Seattle metro area could also see its share. Bitterly cold winds, too,
Can the multi-level warehouse model catch on?
In a novel study, the Seattle Department of Transportation and the UW’s Urban Research Lab are counting and analyzing truck traffic into the downtown core. The objective, said SDOT senior civil engineer Christopher Eaves, “is to get an idea of what our commercial health is downtown.”
Container traffic into the Port of Seattle is down 22.6% YTD, starving the city of freight. Trucking spot rates have cratered, and turndowns have dropped 75% since their peak in October as carriers are forced to accept lower prices.
