Rail
Freedom Intermodal Tank Services has expanded its New Orleans operations with a new automated bulk liquid packaging facility, adding capacity for packaging, warehousing and distribution of bulk liquid products while reinforcing the region’s role as a major industrial logistics hub.
The facility, located adjacent to Freedom Intermodal’s existing operations in New Orleans East, adds automated drum and tote filling capabilities and integrates packaging, warehousing, transloading, storage, heating, blending, cleaning, trucking and ...
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GEODIS reported revenue of €10.6 billion in 2025 while advancing sustainability, artificial intelligence and supply chain transformation initiatives amid a challenging global trade environment, according to its 2025 Activity and Sustainability Report.
The logistics provider, which employs nearly 48,000 people and operates 975 sites serving 166 ...
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At first glance, two major transportation stories this month appear to point in opposite directions.
FedEx has completed the spin-off of FedEx Freight, creating a standalone less-than-truckload carrier focused exclusively on the North American LTL market. At the same time, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are ...
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C.H. Robinson has launched a new artificial intelligence tool designed to continuously assess, improve and operate customer supply chains, marking the latest step in the company’s effort to automate logistics management.
The company said its new “Lean AI Engineer” works alongside the “Lean AI Planner” introduced ...
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FedEx Corp. has completed the spin-off of its less-than-truckload subsidiary, FedEx Freight, creating two independent publicly traded transportation companies and concluding one of the most closely watched restructurings in the North American freight sector.
FedEx Freight began trading June 1 on the New York Stock Exchange ...
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Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have cleared an initial regulatory hurdle in their proposed merger to create the nation’s first transcontinental freight railroad, after the Surface Transportation Board accepted the carriers’ revised application for consideration while simultaneously pausing proceedings pending additional information.
The railroads said May ...
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Swiss supply chain analytics provider Log-hub has launched a program aimed at helping logistics service providers identify hidden operational inefficiencies and recover lost margins across transport and distribution networks.
The initiative targets groupage, full truckload and fourth-party logistics operators facing continued pricing pressure and rising transport ...
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The successful return to Earth of the Artemis II crew in April signalled a shift in North American heavy-lift transport, from a "test-flight" cadence to a high-volume, industrial-scale logistics operation.
However, as NASA announced a massive strategic pivot in its operational aims, the demand for North ...
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AI’s explosive growth has brought a breakneck rush to build new data centers across North America, but the surge in capital spending is colliding with physical limitations, forcing rapid change in the breakbulk sector.
An estimated 17 gigawatts of AI capacity are under construction in the ...
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Container shipping and logistics trends across Latin America are becoming increasingly shaped by supply chain digitalization, infrastructure investment and mounting geopolitical uncertainty, according to Maersk’s latest regional market assessment.
In its May Latin America market outlook, Danish shipping and logistics group A.P. Moller - Maersk said ...
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