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AI-enabled big rigs are now hauling loads between Dallas and Houston — with human drivers at the wheel, for the time being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Golden State, which has set tough pollution rules for cars and trucks for half a century, is going after diesel pollution from trains that it says are even dirtier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When NYK Line sales representatives meet with shippers, they discuss ocean transportation--and trucking, warehousing, consolidation, deconsolidation, tracking and other logistics services. 'We want to extend ourselves to the customer as [...]

This article summarises research that has been carried out in E.T.S.I. Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Madrid (UPM) into Urban Freight Distribution. An analysis is provided on the current situation of this sector in Spain, more specifically about the legal implications, the economic and environmental problems it causes, as well as feasible solutions, everything from the point of view of Transport Engineering. After that, as an example, the article examines the case of Valdemoro (Madrid). There, it is shown how a change in the layout of reserved parking areas can achieve important improvements on urban traffic, making the zone more efficient and sustainable. The article ends with some conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dry bulk freight rates edged higher for a second successive week, with solid Chinese demand for grains, coal and iron ore supporting gains particularly for capesize and panamax vessels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The freight rail giant will be the first customer to use TuSimple's automated trucking network between Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L.A.-based Parallel Systems, which just raised $50 million, thinks it can squeeze far more capacity out of existing rail lines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The passage of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act has spurred the creation of new shippers' associations. Industry experts believe that there are as many as 100 shippers' associations currently operating in the US today. These organizations pool cargo from small and mid-sized companies to obtain better rates and services from ocean carriers. Howard Leff, vice-president of Mark VII International, said that businesses are forced to become members of a shippers' association. He added that it is only through this way that they can obtain the same rates that big shippers are getting from ocean carriers.

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday November 12 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sellers of physical copper are holding out for a higher premium for 2022 contracts in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than 10% of the global container fleet is waiting for berths to become available around the world, with effective capacity being "severely limited by port congestion," shipping giant Maersk said this week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Waning demand registers in Europe, but not yet on US premiums in the two weeks to Tuesday October 19, a day of record high London Metal Exchange tin prices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The company, which reported a quarterly loss amid heavy R&D investments, says it has logged over 160,000 autonomous miles with UPS and is extending freight operations into Florida. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The congestion at major ports that has affected shipping operations for metals and minerals on the China-to-Europe route is set to worsen in the next three or four months, sources told Fastmarkets during last week's International Colloquium on Refractories conference in Aachen, Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A dire shortage of truck drivers and rail cars and unforeseen levels of demand while businesses reopen from Covid-19-related shutdowns are among the factors contributing to the current logistics woes in the United States that have sparked tightness and price increases in the metals markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shippers may be more familiar with highways than with cyberspace, but there's a lot of useful logistics info out there on the Internet's World Wide Web. By now, you must [...]

A directory of freight handling industry associations is presented. The directory includes the addresses, telephone and fax numbers as well as the top officials of the trade associations and organizations featured.

High freight rates and the tight logistics situation, which has caused chaos for commodities markets throughout 2021, should normalize over time, Hydro's executive vice president John Thuestad said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tin premiums were unchanged in all regions in the week to Tuesday July 27 amid continued short supply and costly transportation but easing backwardation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global miner Anglo American has made a successful trial of the use of sustainable biofuel to power a chartered Capesize ship on a voyage from Singapore to South Africa, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by around 5% compared with using 100% conventional marine fuel, the company has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Let's be blunt: For all its undoubted achievements in the ten years since deregulation, the U.S. intermodal industry remains haunted by a specter-low profitability. For the railroads in particular, intermodal's […]

I found the freighter travel articles in the October '04 issue most interesting. I would like to add some comments in order that individuals contemplating going this route will have […]

The chaos being experienced in the global container shipping industry is expected to continue for some time with a shortage of an estimated four million boxes creating havoc with congestion, routes and freight rates, according to an executive at logistics conglomerate DP World. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High freight rates are pushing prices along the aluminium supply chain to multi-year highs, but there is one area where it is having the opposite effect: alumina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese market participants showed more buying interest in seaborne alumina cargoes this week, with a stronger yuan giving them more purchasing power in overseas markets, several sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday May 26. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consuming markets of commodity raw materials are under pressure yet again from a combination of renewed increases in sea freight costs and overstretched logistics, making delivery schedules unreliable and causing long delays at a time when suppliers are tightening contract terms to reduce liability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday April 26 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Key data from Fastmarkets' Friday April 30 pricing sessions in China, India, Europe and the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spot availability of refined lead remains tight in the United States, keeping premiums for the heavy metal at multi-year highs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A shortage of truck drivers and flat-bed trucks is delaying steel shipments at critical points in the supply chain and further driving up shipping costs and lead times, Fastmarkets has learned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asia will soon be hit by a "steel tsunami", a veteran trader in Vietnam told Fastmarkets recently, with a combination of factors expected to keep prices high into the second and third quarters of 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday March 25 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A strike by transport workers in Peru has disrupted the movement of metal concentrate between mines and key ports such as Callao, in Lima. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Logistics for shipping material out of China continues to be a major concern for sellers of minerals and metals, with container freight rates firm at high levels and carriers giving priority to lighter cargoes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday March 16 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motor carriage Shippers are responding to cost pressures by moving freight to lower test modes. Carriers have streamlined their networks in their own efforts to control costs. These and other [...]

The soaring bulk freight rates we are seeing in March 2021 are a temporary phenomenon, driven by the displacement of containers due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the executive chairman and chief executive officer of Trafigura has said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Indian silico-manganese export market should cement recent price gains that have pushed up the high end of the range to a level last seen in April 2018 on firm domestic fundamentals that are influencing exporter offer prices, industry sources told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trafigura's warehousing and logistics arm, Impala Terminals, has launched a certified carbon-neutral freight service allowing its customers to offset their indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by financing carbon projects worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday March 9 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 23 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise in bulk freight rates, especially from Asia, has dramatically boosted seaborne steel prices and disrupted South American foreign trade, market participants told Fastmarkets in the week to Thursday February 25. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday February 10 that are worth another look. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A shortage of containers to ship commodities around the world and the consequent soaring in associated freight rates have led to a revival of interest in breakbulk cargoes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Molybdic oxide and ferro-molybdenum prices were back on an upward path during the first half of the week, mainly due to tight oxide availability, which has been heightened by recent shipping delays out of Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Key data from the pricing session in London on Friday January 22. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Severe logistical hurdles continue to affect the main seaborne shipping routes out of China, with prohibitively high container freight costs persisting and recent land transport issues adding to the congestion and delays at ports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Extreme tin shortages in the United States have catapulted the domestic premiums to their highest levels since Fastmarkets began these assessments, with the in-warehouse Baltimore and ddp Midwest US premiums jumping by 32.17% and 44% respectively in the past two weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aluminium billet premiums in the United States, Europe and Asia rose on Friday December 18, with strong fundamentals supporting the increases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]