From FreightWaves
With the ongoing, high-profile negative news surrounding Tesla (NASDAQ: …
From the Canadian Press
CALGARY — Steep oil price discounts costing Alberta producers and the provincial government millions of dollars each day in lost revenue could be …
From FreightWaves
Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) reported its highest quarterly revenue ever thanks to growth in energy and potash freight volumes. Third-quarter net income …
From The Houston Chronicle
The Port of Corpus Christi reported record amounts of shipments in the third quarter of 2018.
The Port of Corpus Christi has broken a tonnage record set in 2015, with growing crude oil and fuels exports …
From Economic Times
From Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk replied with a Tweet saying: “This is incorrect” after the Financial Times reported that outgoing Twenty-First Century Fox Inc Chief Executive James Murdoch was the lead candidate to replace him as Tesla …
From gCaptain – Don Martin
An explosion on October 9 to the Enbridge natural gas pipeline in Canada near Prince George B.C. threatens natural gas distribution to the refineries located in Anacortes, Washington.
Refineries in the Anacortes area in Washington …
From Reuters
HAIPHONG, Vietnam (Reuters) – At a time when auto companies in the developed world are facing a squeeze on their profits from cash-rich tech firms, Vietnam is betting car-making can …
From FreightWaves
Of the different verticals that get attributed to societal and economic progress, the transportation industry could be considered the one that gets the least credence. For instance, industrialization was made possible not just through increased logistical efficiency …
From the Corpus Christi Caller Times
The Port of Corpus Christi has made its concerns about a proposed offshore oil terminal plainly clear — it doesn’t …
From FreightWaves
Let’s hear it for precision railroading.
That’s the message of a recent report by Moody’s Investors Service, one of the leading debt rating agencies, about the system pioneered by the late Hunter Harrison at Canadian Pacific (NYSE: …
Denmark plans to ban sales of gas-powered cars by 2030
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From Transport Topics
Thousands of drivers are needed in the Texas oil fields. Big rig trucks sit empty.
They could be hauling the thousands of loads of sand needed to frac a well. But there aren’t enough drivers. It will …
From CCJ
TuSimple, a self-driving truck solutions company, has been testing its Level 4 Class 8 autonomous trucks in Arizona for more than …
From Freightwaves
If a shipper frustrated by rising trucking rates, higher fuel surcharges and the inability to secure a truck is thinking of turning to intermodal, Todd …
From Bloomberg
The goal of a nonstop flight from …
From FreightWaves
The expanded Panama Canal, which can now accommodate larger ships in greater numbers, has altered trade flows on the North American continent.
The expansion, completed on June 26, 2016, doubled the capacity of the Panama Canal. East Coast …
From FreightWaves
Nikola Motor has made plenty of headlines as it develops a hydrogen-electric truck, but it is not the only company working on such as Class 8 vehicle. In fact, there is another company that not only is building …
From Wired
For the developers of self-driving vehicles, semi-trucks are a potential low-hanging fruit.
Although big rigs are imposingly, intimidatingly huge, they also predominantly run on freeways and other fixed routes that are simpler to automate. Fleet managers are easier …
From MarineLog
Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara has signed a shipbuilding contract worth approximately NOK 250 million (about $30 million) with Fincantieri subsidiary Vard for construction of the zero-emission vessel Yara Birkeland, the world’s first autonomous and electrically driven container vessel.…
From CCJ
According to preliminary numbers from FTR, July orders for Class 8 trucks set a new monthly record, landing at 52,250 and pushing orders from the prior 12 months to …
From FreightWaves
On Tuesday, Elon Musk tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) private at $420 per share, an overall valuation of $82B, which would make the electric car maker the most valuable private company in the …
Clean Energy Fuels Generates $70 Million Revenue with NatGas Transportation Fuel for Q2
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Are 19 cup holders enough? Texas-sized, 8-passenger SUV is experimental ground for the quirky company whose small cars are beloved on both coasts
From Bloomberg
How far has Subaru come during its 60 years of selling cars? Roughly seven feet.…
In the heart of the Marcellus and Utica shale formations is a project called Long Ridge Energy Terminal. Long Ridge is owned by Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors Ltd (NYSE: …
From Stratfor Worldview
In spite of potential global pushback against Beijing’s investments, Chinese companies will acquire control of a majority of the lithium-ion battery market, giving the country a significant …
From Freight Waves
E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. announced plans to push further into last-mile delivery services, in an effort to address the …
