Shipping

Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air as well.

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Protest at Nation’s Fifth Busiest Container Port Fuels Ongoing Supply Chain Crisis
Protest at Nation’s Fifth Busiest Container Port Fuels Ongoing Supply Chain Crisis
July 25, 2022  |  Supply Chain

A weeklong and ongoing protest at the Port of Oakland by independent truckers has had an immediate impact upon the movement of containers from the...

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Inflation Brings Worries by the Truckload as Freight Demand Slows
Inflation Brings Worries by the Truckload as Freight Demand Slows
July 22, 2022  |  Earnings

Demand for freight transportation is slowing as consumers cope with rising inflation, executives at Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings said Wednesday (July 20) during the company’s quarterly...

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California Law Threatens Legal Status of 70,000 Truck Drivers
California Law Threatens Legal Status of 70,000 Truck Drivers
July 12, 2022  |  Regulation

California labor standards are beginning to apply to some 70,000 truck owner-operators, who make up the backbone of state’s transportation business, creating another bottleneck in...

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Slowing Demand Drives Down Shipping Rates
Slowing Demand Drives Down Shipping Rates
July 10, 2022  |  Shipping

With the economy still wrought with troubles, high-priced freight contracts written when carrier capacity was tight and businesses were in a mad rush to restock...

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Waymo Via, Uber Freight Sign Partnership on Self-Driving Trucks
Waymo Via, Uber Freight Sign Partnership on Self-Driving Trucks
June 07, 2022  |  Transportation

Waymo Via, Alphabet’s self-driving trucking unit, has signed a deal with Uber’s Freight business to help future customers deploy autonomous trucks more easily, Reuters wrote...

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Israeli Freight Platform Freightos to Go Public Via SPAC
Israeli Freight Platform Freightos to Go Public Via SPAC
May 31, 2022  |  SPAC

Israeli digital freight booking and payment platform Freightos will go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC)  Gesher Acquisition, the companies announced...

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Blockchain in Action: TradeLens Connects Shipping, Customs, Trade Financing
Blockchain in Action: TradeLens Connects Shipping, Customs, Trade Financing
May 27, 2022  |  Blockchain

If there’s one blockchain project that truly shows what the technology is capable of, it’s TradeLens, which has connected nearly every part of the global...

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Maersk Predicts Slight Global Slowdown in Container Demand
Maersk Predicts Slight Global Slowdown in Container Demand
April 26, 2022  |  Economy

Shipping giant Maersk said Tuesday (April 26) that the container market could normalize in the second half of 2022, though it did raise full-year guidance...

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Shipium Raised $8 Million in 2021 Towards Fast Shipping Tech
Shipium Raised $8 Million in 2021 Towards Fast Shipping Tech
April 14, 2022  |  Shipping

Shipium, founded by ex-Amazon and Zulily supply chain builders, is working on moving packages to customers faster, a press release said. The company has raised...

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