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Ohio state Rep. John Boccieri met with local and regional leaders from the trucking industry to discuss a growing problem for freight haulers: a lack of qualified workers.

The new human jobs – 1,500 in this case – got the headlines, but it’s the robots that make online retail giant Amazon’s new Sacramento, Calif., distribution center zing.

Amazon.com doesn’t just want to control the “last mile” of online delivery. The company wants to own the finish line, too.

Railroad giant CSX, which is under fire from regulators for operating changes that have disrupted its freight service nationwide, laid off more than 6o employees this week at its primary Chicago switching yard, according to the workers’ union.

The Port of Virginia began its July-to-June fiscal year with another record-breaker.

The Campbell Soup Co. broke ground Aug. 8 on a $44 million distribution center in Hancock County, Ohio, that officials said will serve as the company’s future Midwest distribution hub.

Container volume at Florida's Port Manatee reached a full-year record for the first 10 months of its current fiscal year.

Sauk Valley Community College in Illinois is ramping up its commercial driver’s license training, adding classes to funnel more workers into the region’s top-growing occupation.

An intermodal CSX rail hub proposed for Rocky Mount will bring 1,500 jobs to North Carolina.

Capt. Tom Goodwin stood on the bridge of an oil tanker and looked upon the familiar Bayport Container Terminal. But instead of peering out a vessel’s front windows, he was in a high-tech simulator gazing intently at 13 monitors.