The West Des Moines, Iowa-based frozen meat importer filed its petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court last week, leaving many trucking and logistics firms out to dry.

While shipping volumes increased, alternatives to the big guys such as UPS and FedEx found their niche.

With inflation and high-interest rates crippling bank accounts across the nation, the electric vehicles business is expecting continued business issues into 2023.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s tougher pollution standards will be issued for compliance on 2027 models of large trucks, delivery vans, and buses.

Located in Houston, Texas, on the Gulf Coast, the Port of Houston is made up of more than 200 private terminals, which handle a wide range of cargo, including containerized cargo, breakbulk cargo, roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargo, and liquid bulk cargo.

A total of 352 products from China were issued tariff exclusions that were scheduled to conclude within the following two weeks at the close of 2022.

Georgia, California, and New York judges have been notable for issuing legendary and severe judgments on defendants in the trucking industry.

According to the American Trucking Association, the estimated professional driver shortage has decreased to 78,000 as of October as compared to the number of 80,000 in 2021.

DroneUp, Walmart’s drone delivery service, is now offering same-day delivery options to customers within one mile of participating stores in the greater Phoenix, Tampa, Orlando, and Dallas areas.

The aviation value chain refers to the various stages and activities that are involved in the production, distribution, and utilization of aviation-related goods and services.

First off, what is “inflation” anyway? Economic inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.

Shipping firms transporting commodities such as oil and grains are beginning to panic as underwriters begin to pull back from reinsuring any risks that are related to the Russia-Ukraine war.

In a 2022 shopping survey conducted by Supply Chain Brain of 3,138 U.S. adults, 50% said that they did not begin holiday shopping until November.

An excess of merchandise is sitting untouched on US retail companies’ shelves.

The United States’s dependence on Ukrainian and Russian-originated neon gas, palladium, platinum, and pig iron have been highlighted as some of the most affected commodities since February 2022.

China has filed an official complaint with the World Trade Organization over the United States’s export controls on the nation, designed to limit China’s ability to increase its domestic semiconductor manufacturing industry.

Bob Costello, chief economist and senior vice president for the American Trucking Associations (ATA) is sounding off his opinion on a “short and shallow” recession early next year.

James Pierson and Adam Andrzejewski penned an opinion piece for Newsweek on the matter, highlighting the pitfalls of the $787 billion appropriated to businesses under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

The massive retailer often is the victim of bad press, but it seems that Amazon would only be hurt by having an unhappy workforce during the busiest time of year - the holidays.

The variant of COVID-19 that was said to destroy the Christmas season for retailers in 2021 is now in the backseat as the latest wave of strikes hit the United Kingdom’s rail network.