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Government, Business, Logistics

Port of Los Angeles Leader Outlines Ambitious Goals for 2024

With billions of federal, state and local dollars being spent at the nation’s ports, these critical economic engines are poised to accelerate efforts toward low- and zero-carbon emissions.

Dan Ronan | Senior Reporter
January 12, 2024
Business, Logistics

PS Logistics Buys Buddy Moore Trucking

PS Logistics has acquired Buddy Moore Trucking, which is also based in Birmingham, Ala.

Keiron Greenhalgh | Staff Reporter
January 12, 2024
Government, Business, Equipment, Logistics

DOD Announces Delay in $17.9B Military Moving Contract

U.S. Transcom announced that an IT systems glitch is delaying implementation of a contract designed to improve the quality of moves for military members and their families. 

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
January 11, 2024
Business, Logistics

Kenco Buys The Shippers Group

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based third-party logistics group Kenco is to buy The Shippers Group, a Dallas-based third-party warehousing company, it said.

Keiron Greenhalgh | Staff Reporter
January 11, 2024
Business, Safety, Logistics

Ships Advertise Chinese Links to Avoid Houthi Attacks

At least five vessels transiting the Red Sea are using their signals to say they have links to China — the latest unusual measure taken to try to avoid attack by Houthi militants in the Red Sea.

Alex Longley | Bloomberg News
January 11, 2024
Business, Logistics, Top 100

Werner Appoints Meisgeier as Its Next President

Company veteran Nathan Meisgeier joined Omaha, Neb.-based Werner Enterprises Inc. in 2005 and was promoted to the carrier's general counsel in 2016.

Joe Howard | Executive Editor
January 10, 2024
Business, Equipment, Logistics

Prime Launches Hopper Division, Starting With 25 Trailers

Prime Inc. is launching a hopper business, as Transport Topics' 19th-ranked for-hire carrier expands its bulk transportation operations.

Keiron Greenhalgh | Staff Reporter
January 10, 2024
Technology, Logistics, Private, TCA

Walmart Announces Dallas Drone Deliveries Covering Millions

Walmart says drone deliveries are no longer a futuristic idea, as it will be able to make drone deliveries with its partners Wing and Zipline to 75% of Dallas-Fort Worth by the end of this year.

Maria Halkias | The Dallas Morning News
January 10, 2024
Business, Logistics, For-Hire

Industry Takes Fresh Look at Reverse Logistics

Reverse logistics — the management and movement of returned goods — is one of the most significant systems in the economy, and one of the most complicated. 

Hilary Daninhirsch | Special to Transport Topics
January 10, 2024
Government, Business, Safety, Logistics

Truck Parking Front and Center at TRB

WASHINGTON — Transportation officials meeting at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting heard several proposals to solve the truck parking shortage.

Dan Ronan | Senior Reporter
January 9, 2024
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