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The port drayage industry depends heavily on owner-operators driving as independent contractors to licensed motor carriers (LMCs). There...

"Competitiveness" has become a hot topic for US states, municipalities, and ports. With slower post-recession economic and trade g

There are far too many surprises in container shipping. The last quarter of 2018 was huge. Pre-tariff inventory buildup has stressed carrier

The container shipping industry lives somewhere in the tri-state area of Chaos, Flux, and Transition. While everyone would rather live...

The first victims of the Administration’s trade war will be ocean carriers, ports, terminals, truckers, and railroads. There are seldom...

Going into 2018 the container shipping industry faces a fundamental problem: too many large vessels. The carriers have invested heavily...

Vessel dwell time is a hot button for the container shipping industry. Besides the cost involved on both the land side and the water...

It seems impossible to read a trade journal or attend a conference without a discussion of autonomous vehicles and what they might mean...