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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

Business, Logistics

Radiant Logistics Announces Stock Sale

Radiant Logistics Inc. announced the sale of $20 million worth of preferred stock, with the intent of paying off a balance owed for senior subordinated notes.

December 16, 2013
Business, Logistics

XPO to Buy Web-Based Freight Auction Site From Landstar System for $87 Mln. in Cash

XPO Logistics Inc. said it has agreed to purchase NLM, a Web-based freight auction site, from Landstar System Inc. for $87 million in cash.

December 16, 2013
Fuel, Business, Logistics, Government

Diesel Price Dips 0.4¢ to $3.879, Resumes Slide After Two Gains

U.S. diesel prices dipped 0.4 cent to a national average of $3.879 a gallon, ending two weeks of increases that were the fuel’s only upturns in the past three months, the Department of Energy reported Dec. 9.

December 16, 2013
Business, Logistics

Intermodal Rail Volume Rises 9.4% for Week

Intermodal rail volume for the week ended Dec. 7 rose 9.4% from the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.

December 13, 2013
Business, Logistics

XPO Agrees to Buy Landstar Unit for $87 Million

XPO Logistics Inc. said Dec. 11 it has agreed to purchase NLM, a web-based expediter, from Landstar System for $87 million in cash.

December 11, 2013
Business, Logistics

Intermodal Rail Traffic Highest on Record in November

The weekly average intermodal rail volume for November rose to the highest level on record, the Association of American Railroads reported.

December 6, 2013
Business, Government, Logistics

Consumer Confidence Rises to Five-Month High

Consumer confidence rose to the highest level in five months, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Dec. 6.

December 6, 2013
Business, Logistics

U.S. Trailer Orders Increase 5.7%; October Total Is Year’s Highest

Trailer orders climbed 5.7% in October to 24,910, the highest level so far in 2013, as fleets kept to their pattern of boosting acquisitions in the fall, ACT Research reported.

December 2, 2013
Business, Logistics

Most Top Trucking Companies Use Social Media, Study Says

Major U.S. trucking companies are now widely using social media, but not as much as other business-to-business firms, according to a new study by trucking technology supplier Carrier Logistics Inc.

December 2, 2013
Business, Logistics

JF Hillebrand Buys Satellite Logistics

Satellite Logistics Group said it has been purchased by JF Hillebrand Group AG, a company based in Mainz, Germany, that provides beverage logistics services globally. Terms were not disclosed.

Daniel P. Bearth | Staff Writer
November 26, 2013