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It's that time of the year again when budgets, goals, analysis, and planning are high priorities for businesses. For marketers, it can feel like all of these things pile on at once and can become overwhelming really quickly.  On this episode of Cyberly, Blythe Brumleve welcomes her first repeat...

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Norfolk Southern CEO Jim Squires will retire on May 1, 2022, and EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Alan Shaw will take the helm, the company announced Thursday. "This is the right moment for a leadership transition," said Squires. "The company is in rock-solid position, I've accomplished what I set...

Digital freight management platform provider EKA Solutions announced Monday it has formed EKA Logistics Capital LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will provide working capital financing services to its carriers, brokers, and eventually its shippers. The financial program, set to begin in January...

Ashley Furniture confirmed to FreightWaves that it has entered into an agreement to acquire asset-based logistics provider Wilson Logistics. An affiliate of Ashley Distribution Services (ADS) inked the deal on Nov. 22. Terms of the financial transaction were not disclosed. The deal remains subject...

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Airline maintenance facilities across the globe are still weathering the fallout from reduced passenger travel at the pandemic's outset. For well over a year, until domestic passenger travel numbers returned to normal, a majority of airlines parked aircraft in the arid climates of states like...

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Continuing a string of wins for GXO Logistics, the company on Thursday announced it would open an e-commerce distribution center for MYXfitness, the at-home connected fitness brand under parent company The Beachbody Company, in Atlanta. The facility is an expansion of an existing agreement between...

Forward Air announced Wednesday a 7.9% general rate increase (GRI) for rates based on tariffs. The company said some accessorial and minimum charges will be raised as well. The changes take effect Feb. 1. Forward (NASDAQ: FWRD) implemented a 6% GRI last February with most other less-than-truckload...

Software company SVT Robotics recently announced it has closed on a $25 million series A funding round led by Tiger Global Management with participation from Prologis Ventures to step up the company's mission to make it easier for warehouses to invest and deploy robotics automation. "With the...

Japan's Drone Fund III has made an undisclosed investment in Wingcopter, the company announced Wednesday. Drone Fund III is the third fund from Drone Fund, a venture capital company specializing in drone and air mobility-related startups. Wingcopter said the investment is the first for the fund in...

Jennifer pulled her 53-foot rig into the highway weigh station for what she assumed was the standard enforcement stop. While she had only been driving on her own for about six months, Jennifer had gone through a number of these routine checks. This one was different. The enforcement officer...

The Transportation Intermediaries Association's third-quarter report paints a picture of a 3PL industry that had a strong three months, whether it's a comparison to the second quarter of this year or the corresponding quarter of 2020.  Total shipments for the participants surveyed by TIA across...

Neither waning stimulus and extra unemployment benefits nor a peaking delta variant kept consumers from spending at a robust clip during retail's fiscal third quarter, which ran through the end of October. The more notable takeaway from the period may be the number of merchandise retailers took in...