LA Rebounds as Post‑CNY Port Volumes Surge
LA is coming back strong from weak conditions earlier this year. As port volumes return from Chinese New Year, we could see a resurgence of momentum.
Nissan's Self-Driving Shows Remarkable
On Yokohama🇯🇵 streets... The behaviour that most impressed me about @Nissan's selfdriving tech is 👇🏽 https://t.co/tGMsVqllhO
Fuel Shock From Regional War Forces SAS Flight Cancellations
A regional conflict with a global impact. Scandinavian Airlines has been forced to make multiple of short-term flight cancellations, including domestic flights within Norway, as “the entire European aviation system is now feeling the pressure from a sudden fuel shock”
Fewer Cylinders, yet Worse Fuel Economy than A
Two cylinders less. Worse consumption than the Bavarian V8. Heeh. Huku ni wapi bana 😥 https://t.co/xBuivgMDSh
Iran Keeps Shipping Oil, China Still Receives It
PHOTO(S) OF THE DAY: China is still getting (some of) its oil — and Iran its getting (some of) its money. Three weeks into the war, Iran continues loading oil supertankers from Kharg Island. (No damage visible at this resolution) Photo @CopernicusEU...
Nuvo AI Deploys Top AI Agents for $1T Freight Market
Nuvo AI just launched the most powerful system of AI agents for the $1T+ North America truckload freight market.
Rail Demand Remains Stable Amid Service Gains
Rail demand is muted but stable. On Talking Transports, I speak with @BNSFRailway CMO Tom Williams about service gains, rail vs truck dynamics, tariffs, the $UNP – $NSC merger — and Indiana football. 🎧 Listen - Episode 130 of Talking Transports: Apple:...
Delta's 20‑Minute Bag Guarantee Gets New Restriction
Delta has a great 20-minute bag guarantee, offering bonus miles if your checked bag doesn't arrive punctually. Unfortunately we've just seen a major new restriction added to this. https://t.co/Scn0aq3VzT
FAA Halts O'Hare Expansion, United Takes Biggest Hit
FAA Just Froze The O’Hare Arms Race — And United Is The Biggest Loser - View from the Wing https://t.co/tbGjmbHAQW
Rising Tanker Traffic Could Shrink Brent's War‑driven Risk Premium
Great piece by @MelissaLawford in @Telegraph on tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and what's going on in global markets. Brent is up 42% from before the war, a big risk premium. As oil tanker traffic picks up, this...
Two‑tier System Reshapes Oil Transport Through Hazardous Seas
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED, OR THE WATERS MORE MINED The emerging two-tier system for moving oil through dangerous waters https://t.co/tMC9TJnD8s https://t.co/toqDQepMPK
API Energy Leaders Featured in AMPP Pipeline Report
@APIenergy 's very own Allyson Cutright and Jeff Barron are published in the latest edition of the Association for Materials Protection and Performance's U.S. Pipeline Industry Report. https://t.co/NWJzGkTyTp https://t.co/dIbQDzX74t
Airship Revival: 21st‑Century Renaissance Takes Flight
A 21st century Renaissance in lighter-than-air vehicles? Mark Piesling examines progress in airships #avgeek https://t.co/UvkccWNHnw https://t.co/LIzyTaTGGt
Baltimore's Light Rail Replaced by Bus After 25‑Year Delay
After 25 years of planning, Baltimore will most likely get a bus instead of a light rail line that was already approved and shovel ready in 2015 because Governor Hogan cancelled the project to shift money to road projects. This...
EVTOL Preliminary Design and Validation Case Study Released
New on the @AeroSociety YouTube channel - #eVTOL Aircraft Preliminary Design & Validation – A Case Study #avgeek https://t.co/gZ2cUoDiih https://t.co/2eFUq9flrb
TSA Sickouts Surge as Unpaid Workers Amid Shutdown
With the current partial government shutdown, TSA officers aren't being paid. Nationwide, around 10% of TSA staff are calling in sick, with one airport seeing 55% call in sick. https://t.co/faBwEeMMah
Pakistan Faces LNG Shortage Within a Month
Pakistan’s LNG supply at risk of running out in less than a month 🇵🇰 🚢 Officials warn that there may not be enough gas to meet power needs after April 14 Pakistan imports 99% of its LNG from Qatar. But supplies...
Amazon Launches 1‑3‑hour Delivery, Fueling Ultrafast Shipping Trend
Amazon rolls out 1-hour, 3-hour delivery as ultrafast shipping trend grows in the U.S. https://t.co/EFa2clCW92
Inside JAL123: How Routine Turned Tragedy
Revisiting one of the most haunting aviation stories I’ve ever covered: Japan Airlines Flight 123 — the deadliest single-aircraft crash in history. Part 1 of my series with Lars Perkins explores how a routine flight became an unimaginable tragedy — and...
VinFast Resumes US EV Plant, Scaled‑down Amid Growing Losses
"VinFast to Resume US EV Plant Construction as Loss Widens" https://t.co/iDt2io8Uw2 "The US factory’s scale is likely to be much smaller than first envisaged." 🤔🤔 https://t.co/mHd22RogbL
Sweden Seizes First Shadow Fleet Vessel, Signaling Global Crackdown
Sweden has seized its first shadow fleet vessel. They even went after a bulk carrier rather than a tanker. As more countries join in on the crackdown on Russia's shadow fleet, the dominoes are beginning to fall. Full Newsletter: https://t.co/pUmv12pCMy
Iran's VIP Checkpoint Makes Hormuz Transit Politically Controlled
So Iran has basically set up VIP access (or a separate customs checkpoint, if you prefer) for friendly vessels, per JPM “In practice, this creates a system in which the Strait is not formally closed, yet transit increasingly depends on political...
British Airways Revives Melbourne Service After 20 Years
After roughly 20 years, British Airways will be returning to Melbourne, Australia, thanks to a new fifth freedom Dreamliner route. https://t.co/LHsAw9hksw
Nissan’s Seamless Autonomous Ride Shows User‑Centric Design
📍@NissanMotor Global HQ, Yokohama🇯🇵 Privileged to have had an exclusive demonstration of @Nissan's in-house #selfdriving vehicle technology & their mobility service in Yokohama. Got the full experience of booking through Nissan's Easy Ride App, Pick-Up and Drop-Off (PUDO), including a visit to...
Weather Drove Horse‑bus Profits via Feed Costs
Britain's weather was the biggest single influence on prices and profitability for London's early horse-drawn buses because animal feed was their largest operating expense. Bad weather = bad harvest = expensive feed = low profits or losses https://t.co/SusLRj0nta
US Diesel Prices Surge Past $5, Fueling Freight Inflation
CHART OF THE DAY: US retail average diesel prices have topped the $5-per-gallon barrier for the 2nd time ever. That’s freight inflation — and another big hit to the country’s farming economy (and it has received many hit since...
Urban Microcars: Smarter, Smaller, More Maneuverable than Cars
Cities weren’t designed for the size of most modern cars. That’s why concepts like @ÆMOTION’s tilting electric microcar are interesting. It combines the stability of four wheels with the leaning movement of a motorcycle, allowing it to move through tight urban traffic...
Reducing Hormuz Shipping Threat Demands Resources, Political Resolve
I write for the @Telegraph on the military challenges in re-opening the Strait of Hormuz. BLUF: the threat to shipping can be reduced but eliminating it is very resource intensive and can only be made permanent through politics: https://t.co/N9pN5Z9XmD
Asian Airlines Hike Fuel Surcharges as Prices Surge
Malaysia Airlines and Firefly rolled out fuel surcharges in phases from March 11 and March 25, while Batik Air Malaysia and AirAsia X have followed. Across Asia, carriers such as Cathay Pacific and IndiGo are taking similar steps, although Air...
Zip Tie Scooters to Protect Sidewalks and Enforce Responsibility
With just a simple $.05 zip tie you can temporarily disable any lime scooter that’s knocked over and blocking the sidewalk such that the company has to come and retrieve it. It’s everyone’s job to look after the commons and re-internalize...
From Demo to Global Scale: Zero‑Shot AI Driving
Exciting to see how far the industry has come since we gave our first end-to-end AI driving demo a decade ago. But what matters now is scaled deployment. Every day this week we are releasing a new hour long video of...
Iranian-Linked Tankers Still Dominate Hormuz Despite Attacks
India- and Pakistan-owned ships transit Strait of Hormuz ▶️Iranian-linked tonnage still dominates Hormuz transits ▶️Attacks on shipping are succeeding in halting crossings ▶️Eastbound transits prevail westbound journeys ▶️US ‘fine’ with Iranian tankers sailing through Hormuz to ‘supply’ the rest of the...
China-Linked Hormuz Traffic Plummets, VLCCs Shift to Red Sea
China-linked Hormuz transits retreat to shipping’s opaque fringes ▶️China-linked traffic through Hormuz has slowed sharply after recent attacks, with transits largely confined to an opaque bulker and one sanctioned VLCC ▶️Mainstream Chinese state-owned tanker fleets continue to stay out, citing safety, insurance...
India Seeks Iran's Guarantee for 30 Hormuz Shipments
India talks with Iran on safe Hormuz passage for up to 30 ships Vessels carrying LNG, LPG and oil earmarked to follow the voyages of two VLGCs https://t.co/3X81uYIrqD
War Risk Premiums Surge as Iranian Attacks Intensify
War risk rates soar as Iranians ramp up ship attacks US reinsurance scheme light on details as convoy plans out of reach for now https://t.co/BoE7xMfsVr
New Tech Mimics Birds for Ultra‑slow Takeoff
Cracking the Code of Slow Flight: Engineering Bird-Style Takeoff via @ZappyZappy7 #EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology #Tech https://t.co/NJlmpkZBdY
Humanoid Robot Successfully Pilots Aircraft in Test
#WhosNext? Airline Pilots? Scientists Build Humanoid #Robot That Can Pilot a Plane. (Futurism) #AI #Robotics https://t.co/bcdVuA59Ro https://t.co/i6r9BkJ6uY
3,200 Ships Stuck West of Hormuz, Emergency Meeting Called
UN Shipping Agency Says 3,200 Ships Trapped West of Hormuz as Emergency Council Meeting Called https://t.co/JURA89iBEy
Trucking Firms Self‑recover Stolen Loads; Police Ineffective
Large trucking companies often run their own processes to recover stolen truckloads. The authorities are almost useless in recovering stolen cargo.
Lindau’s Trains Outpace All of Texas Combined
The island of Lindau, Germany (pop. 3,000), sees 115 train departures per day. The entire state of Texas and all of its cities combined, by comparison, sees 56 daily Amtrak departures.
War Historically Boosts Freight Demand, Not Economic Collapse
There are a large number of accounts here that have an issue with the war and want the economy to crash because of it. We have yet to find an American war that didn’t drive more freight demand. I don’t make the...
Strangers Secure Million-Dollar Deals; Friends Struggle with $5k
This is absolutely insane. It’s easier to book a million dollar truckload with someone you don’t know than it is to wire 5000 to someone you do.
Freight Data Signals Ongoing Industrial Rally Amid War Recovery
Industrial production up. The high frequency freight data suggests this rally will continue and it appears to be shaking off the Iran war and high fuel prices
Xiaomi Vision GT Merges Supercar Speed with Artistic Design
Xiaomi Vision GT: A Futuristic Supercar Concept That Blends Speed with Art by @XueJia24682 #AutonomousVehicles #Automation #Automotive #Transport https://t.co/5ePl3w5tq5
Truck Driver Shortage Myth Used to Push Deregulation
There never was a truck driver shortage. This was a narrative told to Congress to lower the barriers to entry and to fund tax-paid driving schools. It’s always been a lie.
Truckers Will Keep Jobs without Long‑haul Driving
Good point, they aren’t going to be out of work, even if they don’t drive long haul
Rising Fuel Costs Boost Big Carriers, Not Hurt Them
Wall Street investors have concluded that spiking oil prices will hurt truckers. It’s not that simple. In fact, the big carriers and brokers often make more money during periods of high fuel prices.
Flatbed Surge Predates Iran Conflict, Tied to Rust‑belt Demand
The surge in flatbeds predated the Iran conflict. I spoke about this at length in early February. The locations of the surge match up to the rust belt, auto, and heavy machinery. No one is moving oil field equipment off of...
United Must Disclose No Wi‑Fi, Enforce Two‑seat Rule
@united as your frequent traveler it would be great if you’d say the plane is ancient with no working outlets & no WiFi when we book. As a business traveler, I need WiFi. Also, people who need 2 seats should...
AIS‑active Ships Signal Genuine Reopening Underway
The most important chart right now. Note that this only tracks ships with their AIS (Automated Identification System) turned on, think the GPS on your phone or in your car. More ships are going through, but they turn off their AIS. But once...