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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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DHL Supply Chain Expands Network for Distribution of Health Care Products

DHL Supply Chain will spend $150 million to expand its network for distributing pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

June 14, 2019
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Urban Planning Must Consider Freight, Engineers Say

ALEXANDRIA, Va. 鈥 As cities continue to embrace designs for 鈥渃omplete streets,鈥 tailored for cars, bicyclists and pedestrians traveling alongside one another, urban planners should consider freight needs too, engineering experts said.

June 12, 2019
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Walmart鈥檚 New Pricing Tool Allows Suppliers to Factor in Cost of Tariffs

Walmart Inc. has updated the information network used daily by its suppliers to let them submit cost increases that are directly attributable to higher U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.

June 12, 2019
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FMCSA Seeks Comment on Driver Detention Concerns

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is seeking information regarding truck driver detention time during periods of loading and unloading.

June 12, 2019
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Renault Chairman Pledges to Restore 鈥楧amaged鈥 Nissan Partnership

Renault SA Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard promised to improve relations with partner Nissan Motor Co., telling shareholders at an annual meeting in Paris that broken trust between the companies is repairable.

June 12, 2019
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Blockchain Mentioned Less in Boardrooms

Blockchain, the technology that allows digital information to be shared across networks, has been mentioned fewer and fewer times by corporate executives, signaling what was thought to be the next big thing in trucking may already be declining.

June 11, 2019
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H.I.G. Completes Acquisition of Cardinal Logistics

Private equity firm H.I.G. Capital announced an affiliate completed the acquisition of Cardinal Logistics Holdings, a provider of dedicated transportation and logistics services in North America.

June 10, 2019
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Hundreds of Barges Stalled as Floods Hinder Midwest Supplies

Hundreds of barges are stalled on the Mississippi River, clogging the main circulatory system for a farm-belt economy battered by a relentless, record-setting string of snow, rainstorms and flooding.

June 10, 2019
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Chinese Imports Drop as Growing Tensions With US Cloud Trade

China鈥檚 imports tumbled in May and a surprise rise in exports wasn鈥檛 enough to dispel concerns that the economic dispute with the U.S. will intensify and damage the global economy.

June 10, 2019
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Penske Logistics Opens Refrigerated Warehouse for Kroger

Penske Logistics has opened a 606,000-square-foot refrigerated distribution center in Romulus, Mich.

June 10, 2019

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