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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

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UPS Says It Can Handle Vaccine Rollout, Holiday Parcel Rush

UPS Inc. said it has the capacity to handle the rollout of coronavirus vaccines and an unprecedented holiday package rush this month after investments in automation, tracking technology and dry-ice production.

December 8, 2020
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AM Radio Transmitter Sites Now Valuable Real Estate for Logistics Industry

Sites that for decades housed AM radio towers today command top dollar as e-commerce fuels rising demand for new warehouses and logistics centers.

December 8, 2020
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Elaine Chao Discusses Partnerships as Busy Year Draws to a Close

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao credited stakeholders for helping regulators propel the industry forward through a challenging 2020.

December 8, 2020
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Penske Announces Fleet Upgrade Leasing Program

Penske Truck Leasing launched a program that lets carriers sell their old trucks so they can lease a new one, the company announced Dec. 7.

December 7, 2020
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JBS Sends Thousands of Meat Workers °®¶¹´«Ã½ During COVID Surge

A surge in COVID-19 cases is starting to impact American meat-processing operations in another potential threat to food supply chains that were upended in the early stages of the pandemic.

December 4, 2020
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Top Pork Producer Smithfield Makes Room in Freezers for Vaccine

Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s biggest pork producer, is willing to share space in its ultra-low-temperature freezers to store COVID-19 vaccines, the company said Dec. 3 in an emailed statement.

December 3, 2020
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Working Group Tackles COVID Food Supply Chain Disruptions

Leaders in the food transportation sector are working together to share lessons learned during the coronavirus pandemic.

December 3, 2020
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Carriers Face Compounded Demand This Holiday Season

The trucking industry, working since March to replenish inventories depleted by the coronavirus, now has to grapple with holiday season demand.

December 3, 2020
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Property Carrier Brokers Fight Attempts to Make Public Their Pricing Documents

The Transportation Intermediaries Association is asking federal regulators to sunset a decades-old regulation that the group argues is out of alignment with today’s brokerage marketplace.

December 3, 2020
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XPO Logistics Plans to Split Into Two Companies

XPO Logistics Inc. plans to split into two by spinning off its logistics business in a tax-free transaction that will create a separate publicly traded company.

December 2, 2020