Transportation Management

Qatar Airways Responds to Blockade by Middle Eastern Neighbors by Adding New Routes

March 13, 2018

Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, has never shied away from a fight.

Amazon, Google, Others Are Developing Private Air-Traffic Control for Drones

March 13, 2018

The commercial drone industry wants to create a privately funded and operated air-traffic control network, separate from the current federal system, to enable widespread operations at low altitudes.

Waymo’s Self-Driving Trucks Arrive on Georgia Roads This Week

March 13, 2018

The Washington Post

The race to control the future of self-driving trucking just got even more competitive.

GE Unit Expands Program to Speed U.S. Imports Through Supply Chains

March 9, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

Companies that ship and handle goods moving through supply chains have a problem: they don’t often know where their shipments are in far-flung freight networks or when they will arrive.

Track/Trace Solutions for the Logistics Supply Chain

March 7, 2018

SATO America

Neiman Marcus Turns to Technology to Solve Home-Delivery 'Exceptions'

March 7, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. is trying to remove the pain from growing online sales that trigger big, bulky items and high financial stakes for the retailer.

Truckers Propose a Gasoline Tax Increase to Pay for Infrastructure Plan

March 1, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

The country’s biggest trucking group thinks it has a way to convince Republicans to raise the gasoline tax: Don’t call it a tax.

America’s Heartland Is Now a Battleground for Competing Hyperloops

February 28, 2018

Industryweek

Ohio, home to some of the fastest roller coasters in the world, may soon have a high-speed transport system that will actually take people somewhere other than back where they started.

Corporate America’s New Dilemma: Raising Prices to Cover Higher Transport Costs

February 28, 2018

Reuters

The drive for cost cuts and higher margins at U.S. trucking and railroad operators is pinching their biggest customers, forcing the likes of General Mills Inc and Hormel Foods Corp to spend more on deliveries and consider raising their own prices as a way to pass along the costs.

How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

February 26, 2018

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The Internet of Things would seem ideally suited to the task of monitoring and tracking containers around the world.

Transportation Management

The latest news, analysis, trends and solutions regarding transportation management systems (TMS) and their impact on supply chain management. Today’s companies are moving goods across more suppliers, vendors and customers than ever before, and transportation management is critical in the overall supply chain. New technologies are optimizing productivity, increasing efficiency and cutting costs. Learn how companies around the world are improving supply chain operations through their strategic use of transportation management systems and software.