PS Logistics has completed the purchase of D. Mosley Trucking Inc. and DMT Logistics Services Inc., the Birmingham, Ala.-based company announced Aug. 23. Financial terms were not announced.

Imagine if the next time you place an order for delivery from your favorite local restaurant, you’re greeted at your door not by a person but by an urban delivery robot.

The Georgia Ports Authority celebrated the official opening of the Appalachian Regional Port in northwest Georgia on Aug. 22.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk said Aug. 23 it will send a cargo vessel through the Russian Arctic for the first time as a result of melting sea ice.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — After 43 years, FedEx Freight CEO Michael Ducker finally has retired. Sort of.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has posted a proposed rule that would continue to reduce commercial vehicle registration fees in 2019 and 2020, the agency said in an Aug. 21 Federal Register announcement.

Adams Resources & Energy Inc., the Houston-based corporate parent of oil marketing firm GulfMark Energy and petroleum and chemical hauler Service Transport Co., has agreed to acquire Red River Vehicle Holdings, a crude oil transportation firm operating in Oklahoma and Texas, for approximately $10 million.

Eagle Pipe announced it has selected flatbed carrier Beemac Trucking and Logistics to handle all transportation and tubular management services for its new full-service Permian Basin stocking and trucking yard in Midland, Texas.

This year’s edition of Transport Topics’ Top 100 Private Carriers list features a disappearing act — more than one, actually — as well as some big mergers in the offing and some new names.