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El Niño Winter Forecast: Freight Risks Fleets Can’t Ignore
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (150+ words) El Niño winter forecast for freight: warmer doesn’t mean safer for fleets. DTN’s Ben Hershey breaks down what carriers should actually watch this winter: major snow events still possible, wetter western mountain routes, and why AI-driven crash risk forecasting is…...
How Supply Chain Leaders Should Approach Their Next AI Investment
1+ week, 3+ day ago (127+ words) AI investment in supply chain is accelerating — but so is the gap between companies seeing real returns and those still figuring out where to start. This white paper brings together the latest research from Gartner, McKinsey, and FreightWaves to show…...
Private equity group rolls up 3 small firms for courier network
1+ week, 5+ day ago (381+ words) Private equity firm Trident Management appears to be an early mover in bolting together small courier businesses onto a platform that can offer shippers greater regional density and reach as an alternative to large, legacy parcel carriers. Trident-backed Priority Courier…...
Last-mile costs rise 12% for a second year
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1008+ words) CHICAGO — Last mile costs continue to rise. On Thursday, FarEye released new research putting that cost into perspective using survey data. The survey found median last-mile costs rose 12 percent in 2026, matching the increase operators saw a year ago. Six in…...
Transportation capacity contraction slows in August
1+ week, 6+ day ago (598+ words) Transportation capacity continued to dwindle in August, but at the slowest rate recorded in six months. Transportation pricing, however, continued to surge, according to a monthly sentiment survey of supply chain professionals. The Logistics Managers’ Index signaled further tightening in…...
Peak Season Is Coming - But Where Is The Freight Surge?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (251+ words) Peak season is upon us, but SONAR data reveals a surprising trend: tender rejection rates aren’t surging into Labor Day like previous years. While spot rates remain elevated year-over-year, the expected pre-holiday peak isn’t materializing. Is this the new normal…...
Supply driven trucking market cycle explained in the data
2+ week, 1+ day ago (199+ words) Accepted tender volumes are a fairly good proxy for total truckload demand when rejection rates are relatively low (spot market or outside existing contracts. Recent ASTVI levels are actually close to where they were in 2019 — lower than most of the…...
AI for Supply Chain Needs 3 Things: Goods, Data, Money
2+ week, 4+ day ago (71+ words) FreightWaves Jordan framed the round as both a validation of Nauta’s data-first thesis and a launchpad for international growth, arguing that without a clean, contextualized data foundation, large global enterprises will continue to struggle to extract measurable value from AI…...
Port Houston container volumes fall 6% in July as import surge cools
2+ week, 4+ day ago (736+ words) Port Houston handled 369,899 twenty-foot equivalent units in July, a 6% decline from the same month last year, as container growth at the Gulf Coast gateway moderated after stronger activity earlier in 2026. The port’s July container volume compared with 392,829 TEUs during the…...
Port of Oakland: Steady July amid import drop
2+ week, 4+ day ago (363+ words) Loaded container volumes at the Port of Oakland remained essentially steady through the first seven months of 2026, despite a difficult July comparison with the previous year. The northern California hub handled 179,999 twenty foot equivalent units (TEUs) in July, virtually unchanged…...