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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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Phillips Industries Announces Plans to Move Manufacturing to Mexico in 2023

ORLANDO, Fla. 鈥 Phillips Industries by the end of 2023 will move its manufacturing base from China to North America with the launch of full-time operations near Monterrey, Mexico, the company announced.

February 27, 2023
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Union Pacific Looking for New CEO to Replace Lance Fritz

Union Pacific Corp. said it鈥檚 looking for a candidate to replace Chief Executive Officer Lance Fritz. A hedge fund that owns a roughly $1.6 billion stake in Union Pacific pushed for his ouster.聽

February 27, 2023
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West, East Coast Ports See Big Container Drop-Off in January

As negotiations resume between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and management鈥檚 Pacific Maritime Association, concern is mounting at the West Coast ports that the slow pace of contract talks is damaging import and export shipping business.

February 23, 2023
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Trucking Industry Grapples With Q4 Slowdown

Motor carriers experienced a financial slowdown in the final months of 2022, as trends that indicate a return to normalized levels of business for the year ahead took hold, industry analysts said.

February 23, 2023
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New Moving Conference Chairman Bill Lovejoy Has Full Plate of Challenges

When it comes to the many challenges getting customers moved from point A to point B, Bill Lovejoy, the new chairman of American Trucking Associations鈥 Moving and Storage Conference, has pretty much done it all.

February 23, 2023
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FedEx Pilots Plan Strike Authorization Vote as Labor Talks Stall

FedEx Corp. pilots are inching closer to a potential strike as negotiations stall on a new labor agreement.

February 23, 2023
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Port Tampa Bay Approves $50 Million Logistics & Distribution Center

Maryland-based Tradepoint Atlantic, a shipping logistics company, is coming to Tampa, Fla., in a deal that Port Tampa Bay CEO Paul Anderson called 鈥減otentially one of the biggest modern opportunities in the modern history of our port.鈥

February 22, 2023
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Target to Invest $100 Million in Sorting Centers for Order Deliveries

MINNEAPOLIS 鈥 The next Target online order that ends up at your door might come from a new type of shipping facility aimed at making deliveries cheaper and faster.

February 22, 2023
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January Truck Tonnage Increases 1.5% Year-Over-Year

Truck tonnage rose 1.5% in January and maintained the steady, positive pace on which it ended 2022, according to American Trucking Associations鈥 For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index.

February 22, 2023
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Perspective: State of the Union Highlights Trucking

ATA Chairman Dan Van Alstine shares his takeaways and experiences after attending the State of the Union.聽

February 17, 2023