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Business groups urge USTR to scrap China-linked ship fees

Hundreds of trade groups support a proposed extension of the suspension through Jan 9, while some lawmakers want the fees reinstated to support US shipbuilding.

Freight

Briefing

Hurricane Polo shuts 2 Mexican Pacific ports, limits Manzanillo to big ships

Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas and Puerto Escondido restrict smaller vessels.

Workforce

Briefing

DoorDash pays $131.5M to settle NYC delivery-worker pay claims

The city found DoorDash excluded some trip and on-call time from its minimum-pay calculations.

Briefing

Risk

Heat disrupted 40% of electronics makers’ supply chains, survey says

Supplier delivery delays were the most-cited severe impact among manufacturers hit by heat.

Technology

Briefing

Loblaw's AI gates cut truck check-in to 3-4 seconds

Loblaw aims to automate the gates at close to half of its 26 DCs.

Trade

Briefing

Canada's retaliatory tariffs hit US plastic bags and tableware at 50%

The counter-tariff list covers about $20 billion of US goods at 15% to 50%.

Freight

News

Amazon joins the race to rail LA imports east

The ecommerce giant is routing sellers' East Coast-bound ocean freight through Los Angeles and onto direct rail, a year after four railroad launches sped up service out of Southern California.

Fulfillment

News

Dollar General adds Instacart as its fourth delivery app

Dollar General is one of six chains that finished the set of DoorDash, Uber Eats and Instacart this year, but the only one that also runs its own app for the same items.

Freight

News

Private fleets are taking on harder freight ahead of a pricier 2027 truck

Shipper-owned fleets are hauling 72% of their companies' outbound freight as a 2027 engine rule gets set to raise the price of new tractors.

Freight

News

Shippers pool demand for 2,500 electric trucks that carriers can lease without resale risk

A lessor takes the used-truck risk off carriers, while Microsoft, PepsiCo and the other shippers join with no obligation to tender freight.

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