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U.S. truckload pricing entered a more consequential phase in early July, with spot-market benchmarks pushing above prior COVID-era highs even though the market is already past the July 4 holiday pe...
A tentative return to the Suez Canal is beginning to show up in liner operations, but the market is not entering a clean normalization phase. In the first week of July, the Suez Canal Authority sai...
Container spot rates from Asia to the U.S. West Coast ended June dramatically higher than they were in early spring, but the latest evidence suggests the move is not a simple story of demand snappi...
Dry van spot pricing made a much sharper move in May than many domestic freight buyers had been budgeting for. The latest U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index Rates Edition, published in late June, show...
Norfolk’s harbor deepening is no longer a future-tense infrastructure story. As of March 18, 2026, the Port of Virginia said dredge work on its 55-foot shipping channel and harbor was complete, wit...
June’s freight recovery is starting to look less like a simple rate story and more like a local-execution problem. As intermodal demand improves and truckload capacity tightens, one of the first we...
A critical shipment rarely fails because the shipper lacked a fast option. It fails because the wrong fast option was chosen. For domestic U.S. urgent freight, the real decision is not simply groun...
Freight markets moved into a more expensive phase in early June as the fallout from the Middle East crisis broadened beyond route disruption and into freight pricing across ocean shipping, fuel, an...
A grounded aircraft or a delayed maintenance event can turn a routine freight move into a high-cost operational problem in hours. In aerospace and aviation logistics, the fastest quoted transit is ...
An urgent industrial shipment can still be impossible to move quickly if its size, weight, trailer fit, route legality, or site conditions are not known upfront. That is the core planning reality b...
