Now the Ohio River, which provides about 60% of the Lower Mississippi River’s water, is seeing closures at multiple locations due to groundings and dredging work.
The result signals continued discontent over compensation, working conditions and sick-leave policies among some of the more than 100,000 union-represented workers of U.S. freight railroads.
The dollar’s surge against the euro, the Japanese yen, the British pound and other currencies adds a new wrinkle to the re-shoring drive that has seen some U.S. companies look for domestic alternatives.
The carmaker will hand over Semis to PepsiCo, which has said it’s reserved 100 of the trucks and expects to deploy an initial 15 by the end of the year.
Truckers are coping with choked-up freight facilities and troublesome equipment shortages, as bottlenecks at U.S. seaports and warehouses ripple across distribution channels to Chicago.
The Biden administration declared Oct. 6 that batteries from China may be tainted by child labor, a move that could upend the electric vehicle industry.
The National Retail Federation
forecasts that 2022 retail sales will grow between 6% and 8% over 2021. Sales were up 7.5% during the first eight months of the year.
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