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The can keeps getting kicked down the road on the potential rail strike that would cripple U.S. supply chains. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division (BMWED) has extended its [...]

News broke on Thursday of last week that a tentative agreement had been reached between the railroads and the two largest rail worker unions, BLET and SMART-TD, preventing a [...]

Just a day ahead of a potential rail strike that would have crippled U.S. supply chains, the railroads and the last two rail worker unions reached a tentative agreement. Shippers, and anyone [...]

A few of the smaller unions of rail workers reached a deal on Monday (August 29th) with the U.S. railroad carriers. This is a good step toward avoiding a rail strike that would cripple supply [...]

From the West Coast to the East Coast, congestion has been a problem at the ports all year. Congestion at the country's busiest ports – the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – has been [...]

Today we continue our examination of freight rates and the outlook of the international shipping industry for 2021. Part 1 of this series looked at the high freight rate prices the international [...]

Surcharges aren't only the tools of ocean freight carriers. Rail companies can slap surcharges on cargo movement too. Indeed, U.S. shippers, right now, are seeing surcharges and gate restrictions [...]