by LM Staff on 12 February 2026 at 4:18 pm

January U.S.-bound container imports—at 2,318,722 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), were up 4.1%, from December to January, and were off 6.8% annually.

by Jeff Berman on 12 February 2026 at 1:48 pm

DOT said that the final rule closes two “critical failures,” including a safety gap that allowed State Driver’s Licensing Agencies (SDLAs) to issue CDLs to foreign drivers without verifying their driving history and also the aforementioned EADs.

by Jeff Berman on 11 February 2026 at 6:04 pm

Earlier this week, the Teamsters Union said it has filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS.

by Jeff Berman on 11 February 2026 at 3:34 pm

January imports, at 2.42 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), fell 5.5% annually, marking the fifth straight month of annual declines, while topping December’s 2.32 million TEU, and trailing November’s 2.63 million TEU.

by LM Staff on 10 February 2026 at 7:14 pm

While most teams can see disruptions, they lack the tools and processes needed to respond fast enough to limit the damage.

by LM Staff on 10 February 2026 at 6:15 pm

With a 0.007-cent increase, the national average, for the week of February 9, came in at $3.688 per gallon.

by LM Staff on 10 February 2026 at 4:53 pm

Retail sales, at $735.0 billion, were essentially flat, up 0.4%, from November to December and posted a 2.4% annual gain, according to Commerce. For all of 2025, it stated that retail sales were up 3.7% annually, with total retail sales from October through December up 3.0% annually.

by Jeff Berman on 9 February 2026 at 6:22 pm

For December, the most recent month for which data is available, U.S. imports, for the ports surveyed in the report (excluding missing data from the Ports of Houston and Charleston), came in at 1.99 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEU), falling 1.7% compared to November and rising 6.6% annually.  

by LM Staff on 9 February 2026 at 5:28 pm

FedEx and private equity firm Advent International have agreed to acquire European parcel locker operator InPost in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $9.2 billion, according to a joint announcement.

by Jeff Berman on 9 February 2026 at 5:16 pm

January U.S. carloads, at 863,558, posted a 4.4% annual gain, and intermodal shipments, at 1,931,911 intermodal units, were down 3.5% annually, for its fifth consecutive annual decrease.

by Jeff Berman on 9 February 2026 at 4:16 pm

DHL Supply Chain, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group, said it has inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Atlanta-based RL Cold, a real estate development firm specializing in cold storage warehousing and processing for the food and beverage (F&B) sector.

by Jeff Berman on 9 February 2026 at 2:15 pm

San Francisco-based Augment, an AI productivity platform for logistics, announced today it has rolled out a new offering, with a focus on aiding logistics practitioners in making real-time logistics decisions. Entitled Knowledge Hub, Augment described it as a set of freight-knowledge capabilities designed to capture how logistics teams run their operations—and subsequently deliver that context straight to operators, where they work and make decisions.

by Jeff Berman on 6 February 2026 at 6:41 pm

Operating revenue, at $22.2 billion, fell 1.2% annually, or $264 million, which USPS said was largely due to declining First-Class Mail, Shipping and Package, and Marketing Mail volume declines, which it said were partially offset by price increases. And its net loss under generally accepted accounting principles came in at around $1.3 billion, well below $144 million in net income for the same quarter a year ago.

by Andy Gray on 6 February 2026 at 3:07 pm

At RILA’s Retail Supply Chain Conference, company executives explained when store growth hit a wall.

by John D. Schulz on 6 February 2026 at 2:45 pm

UPS recently announced it made $8.7 billion in profit last year on the same day that the world’s largest transportation company will reduce its workforce by 30,000 in primarily part-time positions. Why is this happening? That’s what the Teamsters union, whose largest membership is at UPS, wants to know.

by Brian Straight on 6 February 2026 at 2:31 pm

Canadian office supplier revamped its e-commerce business by implementing autonomous mobile robots in its facilities.

by LM Staff on 6 February 2026 at 2:21 pm

Rail carloads, at 191,188, fell 14.0% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 243,173, were off 16.6% annually.

by Jeff Berman on 5 February 2026 at 8:54 pm

A group of 47 members of the United States House of Representatives called on the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to conduct a “rigorous and comprehensive review of the proposed merger” between Class I railroad carriers Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, with a sharp focus on the merger’s ability to enhance competition and it also being clearly in the public interest.

by Jeff Berman on 5 February 2026 at 5:14 pm

The January IBI Activity Index reading, at 59.1, marks its highest level since November 2024, which the firm attributed to goods moving more quickly downstream through the supply chain, coupled with retailers replenishing inventory.

by Jeff Berman on 4 February 2026 at 8:44 pm

Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, whom collectively comprise the Gemini Cooperation ocean carrier alliance, which covers 29 shared mainliner and 29 shared shuttle services on East-West trade routes, said on February 3 that they have decided to change the routing of one of their shared Gemini Cooperation services, which will now transition through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal and secured by naval assistance.