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Following approval by the U.S. House of Representatives on February 8, the United States Senate followed suit yesterday, in also signing off on the Postal Service Reform Act, legislation that is focused on augmenting the financial health of the long-beleaguered United States Postal Service (USPS). The next step for the legislation is for it to be signed into law by President Biden.

Logistics Management (LM) Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Port of Oakland Executive Director Danny Wan. Wan provided LM’s Berman with a wide overview of various efforts the Port of Oakland is focused on, including: port operations; the import and export outlook, emissions reductions efforts, and port labor, among others.

Taking further steps to “unlock value” for its stakeholders, Greenwich, Conn.-based truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) services provider XPO Logistics said yesterday it plans to spin off its North American truck brokerage from its less-than-truckload business, as well as its related asset-light businesses. What’s more, XPO also announced it plans to divest its XPO Europe business and is also in exclusive negotiations with a buyer for the sale of its North American intermodal business.

United States-bound retail container imports are expected to remain at high, if not record-breaking, levels, driven by the combination of strong consumer demand and ongoing supply chain challenges causing congestion

The national average, for the week of March 7, came in at $4.849 per gallon, a new high, according to EIA data, topping the previous record, of $4.764, which was set the week of July 14, 2008.

Austin, Texas-based E2open, a network-based provider of cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management platform services, saying it has bought Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based Logistyx Technologies, a provider of global parcel and e-commerce shipping and fulfillment technology services, for $185 million.

This objective laid out by the ATA’s top executive is very timely, considering that the national average price per gallon, for diesel gasoline, has topped the $4 mark over the last few weeks, coupled with both WTI and Brent Crude prices seeing steep increases over the same period, too, due, in large part to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Preliminary February North American Class 8 net truck orders saw declines, according to recent data respectively issued by freight transportation consultancy FTR and ACT Research, a provider of data and analysis for trucks and other commercial vehicles.

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Given the fluidity, uncertainty, and unrest this situation has created, things are anything but predictable, at this point in time, save for a healthy dose of speculation and forecasting, as to how things may play out in the short-term and also how long this conflict could last and continue to foster the unknown in a sense.

U.S. rail carloads—at 915,329—increased 11%, or 90,525 carloads, compared to February 2021, and intermodal containers and trailers—at 1,945,646—saw a 5.7%, or 194,819 units, annual increase.

报告的关键的指标Ser的阅读vices PMI (formerly the Non-Manufacturing PMI)—at 55.1(a reading of 50 or higher signals growth)—fell 3.4% compared to January’s 59.9, marking the third consecutive month of sequential Service PMI declines. The Services PMI grew for the 21st consecutive month, with services sector growth intact for 143 of the last 145 months through January.

There was no shortage of feedback stemming from President Biden’s comments about the ocean shipping sector made during his State of the Union (SOTU) address earlier this week.

Entitled Beon, TI said that this new platform gives shippers and carriers a single point of access to access both TI’s and Atlanta-based Nolan Transportation Group’s (NTG) logistics network and services, “from port to porch.”

TForce Logistics officials said that the division’s Medical Logistics technology platforms support on-line order entry, provide real-time visibility to order status, ensure efficient scheduling and routing, and provide visibility to digital delivery confirmation records.