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WEBFormer Missouri mayor gets prison time for stealing $300K from drivers. Corey Louis Hendrickson, 46, a former mayor of Willard, Missouri, and fleet dispatcher for Prime Inc., was sentenced to three years in federal prison for a scheme in which he used the names and Social Security numbers of drivers to steal money.
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WEB2 days ago · Canada rail lockout ‘horrific’ for supply chain, carrier trade group head says. Trucking industry and logistics leaders said the lockout by Canada’s two largest railroads Thursday could create capacity crunches and rate spikes across the freight industry. Read More ». Thomas Wasson Thursday, August 22, 2024.
Done deal: TFI completes UPS Freight acquisition
WEBApr 30, 2021 · TFI International has completed its $800 million acquisition of UPS Freight (), the Canadian trucking and logistics firm said Friday as it ushered in a new era as one of the largest less-than-truckload carriers in North America.It came three months after TFI and UPS announced the deal in January. It allows UPS to jettison the largely unprofitable LTL and dedicated truckload operation while ...
How many gallons of fuel does a container ship carry?
WEBJan 15, 2020 · Those ships are generally in the 8,000- to 14,000-TEU range. Ships in that size range can carry between 2.5 million and 3.5 million gallons of fuel. The amount of fuel actually be used on a sailing depends primarily on the ship’s speed. Most ship engines have been designed for top speeds ranging between 20 and 25 knots per hour, which is ...
How big are the world’s largest ocean container ships?
WEBJan 14, 2023 · Twitter/X. LinkedIn. Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine in June launched the largest container ship ever built, the aptly named Ever Alot. The massive ship has a capacity of 24,004 twenty-foot equivalent units, just a little more than its slightly older sibling, the Ever Ace, launched in July 2021 and the …
Railroad Freight Industry News | FreightWaves
WEB2 days ago · Railroads continue to play a significant role in North America’s economic infrastructure. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration, the U.S. rail freight network covers almost 140,000 route miles and is generally considered the largest, safest, and most cost-efficient freight system in the world. In addition, says the FRA, the almost $80 billion rail ...
Tidal wave of new container ships: 2023-24 deliveries to break …
WEBOct 5, 2022 · Historical delivery data from Clarksons shows that annual fleet growth averaged 970,000 TEUs in 2001-20. Deliveries in 2023-24 will be 2.6 times higher than that average. The previous single-year record for annual growth was 1.7 million TEUs in 2014, according to Clarksons data, well below what’s to come.
The Home Depot’s culture of supply chain innovation
WEBFeb 3, 2021 · It’s become increasingly clear that The Home Depot’s supply chain has fostered a culture of innovation that encourages experimentation and collaboration with FreightTech startups, a serious commitment to sustainability and new ways of partnering with carriers. These strategies tend to self-reinforce, as in the case of The Home Depot’s ...
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WEBFreightWaves is a price reporting agency (PRA) focused on the global freight market and the leading provider of high-frequency data for the global supply chain. FreightWaves’ price, demand, and capacity data allow customers to benchmark, analyze, monitor, and forecast the global physical economy. Without logistics, the supply chains that keep ...