UPS: Customer collaboration shortest route to more capacity

As a key UPS executive underscores, in the decade ahead technology will drive operations improvement, but so will knowledge of your customers’ needs. Photo credit: UPS.

Rapidly evolving e-commerce supply networks and uncertainty over transportation capacity and pricing challenge shippers and their transportation partners, including the world’s largest transportation company, UPS….

Big opportunities await carriers: FTR

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Trucking conditions in the U.S. spiked in October, with a reading of 9.48, up from 3.5 in September. FTR’s Trucking Condition Index (TCI) rose on a strong economy, along with pressure from hurricane recovery efforts and the

New weight limit nearly halts Chittagong FEU movement

A new axle load policy introduced December 1 has complicated cargo transport — almost barring movement of 40-foot equivalent unit (FEU) containers on Bangladeshi highways.
Shippers allege that due to the new axle load policy they need to use two truck/prime movers to carry goods typically found in one TEU or…

New truck weight limit nearly halts Chittagong FEU movement

The weight limit’s goal is noble: to reduce damage to roads. However, shippers say it has constrained goods transport. Photo credit: Shutterstock.

A new axle load policy introduced December 1 has complicated cargo transport — almost barring movement of 40-foot equivalent unit (FEU) containers on Bangladeshi highways.
Shippers allege that due to…