Record-setting container volumes continued flowing through some of the nation’s major ports in July, while industry challenges compelled declines at other facilities.

Limited ways to improve public dialogue about the importance of freight amid rising volumes is spurring a new study on ways to communicate with stakeholder communities.

DroneUp, the sole drone partner of Walmart, announced plans to expand its headquarters and establish a research and training facility outside Petersburg, Va., creating 655 new jobs.

Waymo will soon begin on-highway testing of self-driving Freightliner Cascadia models equipped with redundant systems and components designed to eventually support unmanned operation.

High school students in Hamilton County, Tenn., can explore careers in supply chain management and logistics through a new Future Ready Institute that’s launching this fall.

Truck tonnage in July rose 5.1% year-over-year but slipped 1.1% when measured on a sequential monthly basis, according to American Trucking Associations.

Heartland Express Inc. on Aug. 22 announced plans to acquire Contract Freighters’ nondedicated truckload business as well as Mexican entities under CFI Logistica in a $525 million deal.

Supervisors in Scott County, Iowa, plan to pen a letter opposing the merger of two North American rail companies that’s expected to drastically increase train traffic along the Mississippi River there.

FourKites upgraded its platform into a unified customer interface aimed at better integrating end-to-end supply chain data, the supply chain visibility company said Aug. 22.

JOHNSTOWN, Ohio — Ohio’s largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there’s also a national shortage of people working in the trades.