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News from the intermodal freight transportation industry.

FedEx’s Smith promises 2020 rebound will prove him right again

Air Cargo

Bloomberg | Top Story | January 28, 2020

FedEx’s Smith promises 2020 rebound will prove him right again

Courier is allying with big-box retailers in Amazon market war.

First India underwater metro nears completion after costs double

Bloomberg | January 27, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Fleet Advantage reports significant operational and client milestones in 2019

AJOT | January 27, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

RoadSync named Best B2B Startup in Atlanta

AJOT | January 27, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Boeing 777X takes first flight into troubled skies for jumbos

Bloomberg | January 25, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airlines | Intermodal

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DB Schenker implements driverless forklift truck

AJOT | January 24, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

DB Schenker has introduced the regular operation of an autonomous forklift truck, following successful completion of a pilot project. The transport system of the Austrian supplier AGILOX transports empty containers over a distance of around 150 meters at the Eching site near Munich. This is done completely without the intervention of a warehouse associate. Previously, this operation was carried out with conventional forklift trucks.

Averitt releases 2020 “State of the North American Supply Chain” survey results

AJOT | January 24, 2020 | Intermodal | Logistics | Trucking

China’s unproven antiviral solution: quarantine of 40 million

Bloomberg | January 24, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airports | Intermodal

Wuhan virus lockdown casts cloud over industry & tech hub

Air Cargo

Bloomberg | Top Story | January 24, 2020

Wuhan virus lockdown casts cloud over industry & tech hub

Wuhan’s status as a transport and manufacturing hub have fueled its economic rise and drawn comparisons with Chicago’s role as a pivotal city in the center of a giant economy.

How to pull off 3 billion trips during a pandemic

No fever in some China virus carriers makes detection harder

China virus death toll increases to 25 as travel limits expanded

Konecranes wins order for five more Flow Drive reach stackers in Australia

AJOT | January 23, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

ARTBA says final “Waters of the United States” rule brings clarity to transportation project reviews

AJOT | January 23, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Globalsat Group, Inmarsat and Cobham sign multi-year contract

AJOT | January 23, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

The age, sex and symptoms of all the Coronavirus victims

Bloomberg | January 22, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Why China’s deadly viral outbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time

Bloomberg | January 22, 2020 | Intermodal

Rail Traffic for the Week Ending January 18, 2020

AJOT | January 22, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

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ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased 3.3% in 2019

AJOT | January 22, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking | By The Numbers

American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 3.3% in all of 2019, about half the annual gain in 2018 (6.7%), for the tenth straight annual increase.