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Nationwide Capacity Crunch Shows U.S. Trucking Industry in Crisis

The United States is experiencing a capacity crisis — with roughly 10 loads to be shipped for every easily accessible truck — and shippers are scrambling to be able to service their customers without breaking the bank on every shipment.

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Amazon One-Day Shipping Lifts Startups Serving Walmart

Retailers that struggled to match Amazon on two-day deliveries have to spend big yet again to further cut delivery times.

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Trump Versus Xi Battle Has More Suppliers Shifting From China

While Chinese and American officials enter heated trade negotiations this week, companies that have built the technology industry’s global supply chain aren’t waiting to see how the talks turn out.

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Boeing Vows `Transparency' to 737 Max Buyers in New Outreach

Boeing is stepping up customer outreach two days after revealing it had known long before the first 737 Max crash in October that a cockpit alert wasn’t working the way buyers of the jet had been told.

Controls are illuminated inside an aircraft cockpit at dusk. Photo: Shutterstock.

Forgers Are Forcing a $9Tr Business Into the Digital Age

In the high-tech world of financial markets, the continued use of paper receipts in trade finance looks arcane.

Source: Bloomberg

Robots Edge Closer to Unloading Trucks in Amazon-Era Milestone

As FedEx and UPS beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon, they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks.

Source: Bloomberg

Kuebix Extends Load-Matching Service With Emerge Marketplace

Kuebix users can now get additional truckload capacity through Emerge’s carrier marketplace.

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U.S. Has Battery Problem in Race for Electric Car Supremacy

The U.S. push to challenge China’s dominance in the production and sale of electric vehicles has at least one weak link: Most of the raw materials needed to make the batteries are dug elsewhere.

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Ford Partners With Amazon to Enable Package Deliveries to Trunks

Ford follows General Motors and Volvo in joining with the online retailing giant to offer Key by Amazon In-Car delivery service.

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Coal Stockpiles Near Record Weigh on Power Prices Across Europe

Coal is piling up at ports across Europe, depressing both the cost of the fuel and price of electricity.

Pieces of coal stacked at a mining site. Photo: Shutterstock.

High-Precision Mapping Boosts Accuracy for Global 3PL

Challenge: A global third-party logistics provider (3PL) was looking for distance calculations between fixed locations to be used for cost analysis, bid response and rate quoting. The company also wanted predictive calculation capabilities for shipment delivery delays based on real-time traffic incident data.

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