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Truckers Propose a Gasoline Tax Increase to Pay for Infrastructure Plan
The country’s biggest trucking group thinks it has a way to convince Republicans to raise the gasoline tax: Don’t call it a tax.
America’s Heartland Is Now a Battleground for Competing Hyperloops
Ohio, home to some of the fastest roller coasters in the world, may soon have a high-speed transport system that will actually take people somewhere other than back where they started.
Corporate America’s New Dilemma: Raising Prices to Cover Higher Transport Costs
The drive for cost cuts and higher margins at U.S. trucking and railroad operators is pinching their biggest customers, forcing the likes of General Mills Inc and Hormel Foods Corp to spend more on deliveries and consider raising their own prices as a way to pass along the costs.
0228 Corporate Americas New Dilemma
How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'
The Internet of Things would seem ideally suited to the task of monitoring and tracking containers around the world.
0226 How Blockchain Could Create
Hundreds of KFCs Remain Closed Because of Chicken Shortage
The fast food chain KFC has been forced to temporarily close most of its U.K. outlets after problems with a new delivery contract led to a chicken shortage.
0221 Hundredsof Kf Cs Remain
Sam's Club, Vying With Costco and Amazon, Offers Free Shipping to Premium Members
Sam's Club is offering free shipping for premium members and simplifying its membership tiers.
Freight Brokers See Profits Surge on Shipping Rush
Freight middlemen are seeing a surge in business as growing economic demand and tight capacity sends companies rushing to find shipping space.
Food Manufacturer Cuts Freight Spend by 10 Percent Using Kuebix TMS
Challenge: A large food manufacturer was using an arduous manual process to manage its freight. The company knew something had to change to eliminate extensive paper chasing, faxing, repetitive work and wasted time. But with the high volume of inbound and outbound freight to manage, a time-consuming implementation of a TMS wasn't feasible.
Amazon Threat Has Maersk Racing to Stop Clients Becoming Rivals
The world’s biggest container shipping line is trying to stop customers like Amazon.com Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. from becoming competitors in just a few years’ time.
0215 Amazon Threat Has Maersk
Why Red Bull Changed Its Travel Buying Strategy
Travel buyers should start talking to their travel management companies (TMCs) now about how changes to flight booking technologies could impact them, Red Bull’s head of procurement has said.
Airbus Shows Off Its New Automated Delivery Drone Service in Singapore
Airbus is enthusiastically pushing into the drone segment — the company showed off its Alpha One drone taxi earlier this month — and now it has for the first time demonstrated drone-based package deliveries.
Rising Freight Costs Are Weighing on Companies’ Profits
A number of U.S. companies told investors that rising shipping costs in recent months have cut into earnings.
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