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The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, for June, came in at 120.1 (2015=100), rising 2.7%, following a 0.3% (downwardly revised from 0.5%) May increase.

Atlanta-based global transportation and logistics titan UPS recently announced key expansion initiatives for its UPS Healthcare segment, including its UPS Premier Service portfolio, which is comprised of what the company describes as three-level flexibility to meet the unique needs of its healthcare shipper customers.

In an effort to quell further supply chain disruptions, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) late last week to establish a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) focused on resolving a labor dispute between Class I rail carriers and 12 U.S.-based rail labor unions on reaching labor accord. The establishment of the PEB went into effect on July 18.

Company officials said that this facility, which it said is strategically located, will support the Los Angeles and Long Beach area, with various services, including port drayage and transloading, coupled with “quick access” to both outbound rail and highway transport, and also work in tandem with its recently rolled out plan to help shippers expedite overseas freight delivery in a long-term multi-vessel service agreement.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman and Tom Madine, CEO of Worldwide Express, a Dallas-based privately held freight brokerage and authorized UPS reseller, spoke about various industry topics at the “Industry Keynote” at the SMC3 Connections ’22 conference in San Diego in late June.

Total June POLA volume—at 876,111 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units)—edged out June 2021 by 0.02%, for the highest-volume June in the port’s 115 years of operations, and total Port of Long Beach volume—at 835,412 TEU—saw a 15.3% annual increase, topping June 2018’ by 83,224 TEU, as the new POLB June high.

June’s shipment reading—at 1.203—fell 2.3% annually, and June expenditures—at 4.665—rose 25.0% annually, slightly below May’s 27.5% annual gain.

As Amazon Prime Day continues today, it comes at a time when the e-commerce supply chain continues to hum along and make needed adjustments on the fly, which has largely been the case going back to the onset of the pandemic in early 2020.

The national average—at $5.568—fell 10.7 cents below the week of July 4, which came in at $5.675. And that decline was in line with a 10.8-cent decline, from the week of June 27, which was at $5.783. The decline from the week of June 20—at $5.81—to the week of June 27, was less significant, down 2.7 cents.

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Greenwich, Conn.-based freight transportation services provider XPO Logistics said it has established a new name for its truck brokerage and asset-light transportation units, in the latest step of its spin-off processes over the last several months. The new company will be named RXO, which XPO said will reflect its commitment to providing shippers with “reliability multiplied by outperformance,” with a corporate tagline of “Massive capacity. Cutting edge technology.”

Blue Yonder, a leading provider of digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfillment software solutions, announced this week that Duncan Angove has been named as CEO, effective immediately.

Two other industry associations—the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)—have also penned letters to the White House to make their positions clear on the importance of getting this current situation resolved.

This follows previous joint announcements by POLA and POLB, whom collectively account for roughly 40% of United States-bound import volumes, indicating that consideration of the fee would be pushed back each week going back to the week of November 22, 2021.

For May, the most recent month for which data is available, import volume—at 2.4 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units)—increased 6% compared to April and was up 2.7% annually. What’s more, this tally represents a new monthly import record, going back to when NRF initially began tracking imports, coming in ahead of the previous record, of 2.34 million TEU, set in March.