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FreightWaves LIVE recap: Is LPaaS the future of FreightTech? Logistics Platform as a Service have potential to solve integration issues 0 188 2 minutes read (Photo: FreightWaves) FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: LPaaS as the future of FreightTech DETAILS: FreightWaves’ President, George Abernathy, and Mark Yeager chat about the future of FreightTech and how Logistics Platform as a Service (LPaaS) can help shippers overcome integration challenges. ( See below for more on Redwood Logistics’ new...

FreightWaves LIVE @HOME virtual event, May 19-20 0 8 3 minutes read It’s back and bigger than ever. After the volatility of 2020, FreightWaves LIVE @HOME will examine what you can expect for the rest of the year.  Listen to pioneering entrepreneurs who can see opportunity on the horizon.  Watch transportation and supply chain gurus dive into the lessons learned over successful careers. It’s the place to be for anyone looking to grow their career and their impact in the world of supply c...

Send Encore Bank’s Texas aspirations stand at three offices and counting. So far, the Little Rock bank has full-service branches in the works for Austin, Fort Worth and Dallas. The $834 million-asset lender will double the count of Arkansas banks with an office in Austin. Little Rock’s Bank OZK holds 0.43% share ($158.4 million) of the $36 billion-deposit market in the Texas capital. That ranks 25th among the 50 banks on the ground in Austin, where Wells Fargo Bank ...

Lawmakers Say Ocean Carriers Are Undermining US Export Trade, Cry Foul on China More than 100 members of Congress are calling on federal maritime authorities to probe what they say are ocean carrier actions that undermine American exports by refusing to pick up U.S. goods and, instead, are returning empty after dropping off imports. In a letter (pdf) to Michael A. Khouri, chair of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), the lawmakers voiced concern over reports that certain vessel-operating comm...

Frigid conditions up demand for refrigerated trucks to keep products like beer at safe temperatures.  Refrigerated truck capacity was already tight due to the pandemic and the start of produce season. The extra time to hire trucks and travel icy roads may lead to restocking delays and empty shelves. To the list of unusual results of frigid temperatures sweeping over Texas and the Midwest, add spiking demand for refrigerated trucks.  Spot rates — the prices given to shippers looking for truc...

Shipping carriers rejected tons of U.S. agricultural exports, opting to send empty containers to China Shipping carriers rejected U.S. agricultural export containers worth hundreds of millions of dollars during October and November, instead sending empty containers to China to be filled with more profitable Chinese exports, a CNBC investigation found. The Federal Maritime Commission has received petitions from U.S. agricultural exporters warning that the delays in trade not only threaten profit...

Industry watchers said desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, causing shipping costs to skyrocket.

By Liz Kellar | Submitted to The Union This was a tumultuous year for Nevada County on a number of fronts, with COVID-19 causing disruptions in the criminal justice system and causing major changes in how law enforcement handles arrests and detentions. Some would argue, too, that a marked spike in opioid overdose deaths could be linked to COVID. But violent deaths remained big news all year. Here are the top five stories for 2020: 1. Fentanyl overdoses spark community concern Over the last seve...