News from the intermodal freight transportation industry.
| May 17, 2022 | Intermodal | Road
Volvo Trucks is opening its very first battery assembly plant. Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks.
| May 17, 2022 | Intermodal | Road | Logistics
| May 17, 2022 | Intermodal | Road
| May 17, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Commission (NOPB), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA), has named Tomeka Watson Bryant as its General Manager effective June 1, 2022. With this promotion, Watson Bryant, who has received industry-wide recognition, becomes the first African American woman to lead a short line railroad in the United States.
| May 17, 2022 | Intermodal
Transportation contributed $1.2 trillion (5.4%) to the economy in 2020
| May 16, 2022 | Intermodal | Road
| May 16, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
Bill Gates sold about $940 million of Canadian National Railway Co. shares, trimming one of the largest holdings of the investment firm that controls his $117 billion personal fortune.
| May 15, 2022 | Intermodal | Road
Ryder System Inc. shares jumped on Friday after HG Vora Capital Management LLC offered to buy the trucking company in a deal valued at about $4.4 billion.
| May 13, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
| May 13, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
| May 12, 2022 | Intermodal | Road
On 1 April 2022, Bolloré Logistics put into operation a new shuttle that uses B100 biofuel.
| May 12, 2022 | Intermodal | Road
| May 12, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
| May 12, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
| May 12, 2022 | Intermodal | Road
| May 12, 2022 | Air Cargo | Airlines | Intermodal | Road
From neighborhood gas stations to America’s interstate highway system to the friendly skies, soaring fuel costs amid dwindling supplies look set to further squeeze consumers and businesses alike this summer.
| May 11, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
| May 11, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
| May 11, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail
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