News & Highlights

• Knight-Swift girds truckload operations, awaits ‘catalyst’ for market upturn

  April 25th 2024

  Cost and pricing pressures are tightening truckload margins, but Knight-Swift CEO Adam Miller sees supply and demand getting “closer to a balance.� (read more)

• Breakbulk24: Shipping should watch for impact of elections on climate rules: S&P

  April 25th 2024

  The shipping industry is facing a prolonged period of geopolitical instability, attendees at the Journal of Commerce’s Breakbulk & Project Cargo (read more)

• ODFL steers steadily toward LTL revival, citing manufacturing gains

  April 25th 2024

  The second-largest US LTL provider is protecting its “excess capacity,” and investing in terminals, equipment and people while waiting for improve (read more)

• Rate slide slows on Asia-Europe ocean trade, with hefty hikes set for May

  April 25th 2024

  But major forwarders do not expect the Red Sea ship diversions to provide any meaningful lift in Asia-Europe rates beyond the second quarter. (read more)

• Opinions mixed on potential for disruption as ILA contract deadline inches closer

  April 25th 2024

  The risk of a strike along the East and Gulf coasts stems from the ILA believing it is entitled to a fair share of the ocean carriers’ pandemic wind (read more)