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42nd Annual Quest for Quality Awards: Celebrating service excellence in logistics
Which carriers, third-party logistics providers, and U.S. ports have truly risen to the top in service excellence over the past year? Our readers have cast their votes, and it’s time to reveal this year’s winners of the prestigious Quest for Quality Awards.

Transportation Best Practices/Trends

Tariff Check-in: Strategic moves for global importers in 2025
To help make some sense of it all, we explore the evolving tariff landscape and provide essential strategies to help businesses stay competitive, compliant, and resilient in the face of ongoing uncertainty. By implementing a structured and well-informed approach, U.S. importers can successfully manage the complexities of the current environment. 

Supply Chain & Logistics Technology

Evolution of the Connected Supply Chain: ERPs lead the charge with smart tech
Enterprise resource planning platforms are leveraging AI, edge computing, and smart integrations to unify supply chain data and solidify their spot on the SCM map.

Global Logistics

Strategies in Flux: The C-suite responds to shifting tariff policies
We spoke to 18 executives to understand how they’re adapting to the evolving tariff landscape.

Warehouse/DC Management

Lift Truck User Survey: Get your money’s worth from lift trucks
How you manage your fleet drops right to the bottom line—or not. Our survey details lift truck management trends. How does your operation compare? 

42nd Annual Quest for Quality Awards: Honoring the industry’s top performers in logistics excellence
August 11, 2025 · Celebrate excellence in logistics with the 42nd Annual Quest for Quality Awards, Logistics Management's trusted measure of customer satisfaction and service performance.
42nd Annual Quest for Quality: Air Cargo/Airfreight Forwarders
August 11, 2025 · Service soars amid uncertainty for air carriers and forwarders
42nd Annual Quest for Quality Awards Third-party Logistics (3PL)
August 11, 2025 · 3PL innovators set the standard for top service
42nd Annual Quest for Quality: Ocean Carriers
August 11, 2025 · Navigating cross currents with innovation
42nd Annual Quest for Quality: North American Ports
August 11, 2025 · World-class service amid continued transformation
42nd Annual Quest for Quality: Rail & Intermodal
August 11, 2025 · Delivering top-tier service despite market volatility
42nd Annual Quest for Quality: LTL
August 11, 2025 · Stellar service amid complex challenges for LTL carriers
42nd Annual Quest for Quality: Truckload
August 11, 2025 · Truckers leading with strategic adaptably
42nd Annual Quest for Quality Awards: Celebrating service excellence in logistics
August 11, 2025 · Which carriers, third-party logistics providers, and U.S. ports have truly risen to the top in service excellence over the past year? Our readers have cast their votes, and it’s time to reveal this year’s winners of the prestigious Quest for Quality Awards.
Strategies in Flux: The C-suite responds to shifting tariff policies
August 4, 2025 · We spoke to 18 executives to understand how they’re adapting to the evolving tariff landscape.
Navigating the Evolving U.S. Tariff Landscape: Strategic moves for importers in 2025
August 4, 2025 · Our insider explores the evolving tariff landscape and discover essential strategies for U.S. importers to stay competitive, compliant, and resilient in 2025. With a structured, informed approach, businesses can successfully navigate tariff complexities and uncertainties
Mugsy’s Seamless Transition: How a new 3PL partner drove efficiency and growth
August 4, 2025 · The innovative apparel brand known for its comfortable stretch denim faced a logistical challenge that threatened its operations. With inventory inaccuracies and delivery delays, the company shifted to a new 3PL partner that not only improved operational accuracy, but helped the brand expand its product range and better manage parcel shipping costs. Here’s how it was done.
Evolution of the Connected Supply Chain: ERPs lead the charge with smart tech
August 4, 2025 · Enterprise resource planning platforms are leveraging AI, edge computing and smart integrations to unify supply chain data and solidify their spot on the SCM map.
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Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger application is filed with the Surface Transportation Board
When the merger agreement was initially announced, the rail carriers said it would create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad—which will connect more than 50,000 route miles across 43 states from the East Coast to the West Coast and connect around 100 ports as well.

FedEx posts fiscal first quarter earnings growth
Quarterly revenue, at $23.5 billion, increased 7% annually, and operating income, at $1.38 billion, was up 31%. Earnings per share, at $4.82, beat Wall Street expectations, at $4.02.

U.S. rail carload and intermodal volumes are down, for week ending December 15, reports AAR
Rail carloads, at 224,620, fell 1.7% annually, and intermodal containers and trailer volume, at 294,284 units, decreased 1.2% annually.

DAT’s November Truckload Volume Index sees more mixed results
November’s TVI dry van freight reading—at 197—fell 18% compared to October, while falling 12% annually. The November refrigerated (reefer) TVI—at 172—was down 11% sequentially and off 6.0% annually. And the flatbed TVI—at 243—was down 22% sequentially and posted a 3% annual gain.   

November intermodal volumes see annual decline, reports IANA
Total November volume, at 1,456,259 units, fell 4.1% annually, following a 2.0% annual decline in October and respective 2.4% and 1.6% annual gains seen in September and August, respectively. Which was preceded by July’s 4.4% annual gain, which saw higher volumes due to the pulling-forward of goods being imported during the previous pause on the White House’s reciprocal tariffs.

Teamsters Rail Conference makes its case for the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern proposed merger to not be approved by the STB
With a merger application for the proposed $85 billion historic merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern expected to be filed with the Surface Transportation Board (STB) this week, more than half of union employees at the railroads indicated they are not in favor of the merger. That is the word from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen (BLET) and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, whom collectively account for 53% of UP and NS union employees, with the two unions...

USPS bets on last-mile expansion to drive revenue and enable faster delivery for retailers and logistics providers
With a focus on expanding access to its last mile delivery network, the United States Postal Service (USPS) said this week that shippers of all sizes will now be able to access more than 18,000 USPS delivery destination units (DDU) across the country.

Cass Freight Index sees annual declines in November
The November shipments reading, at 1.004, fell 7.6% annually, in line with October’s 7.8% annual decline, and November expenditures, at 3.163, decreased 1.2% annually and were down 0.2% compared to October.

Zebra Technologies is looking at strategic options for its robotics automation business
Acquired in 2021 and enhanced since, Zebra's mobile robot collaborative order picking solution may be sold off.

ISM forecast sees a manufacturing rebound in 2026 as services maintain steady expansion
While economic conditions for the manufacturing and services sectors are mixed, both are expected to see growth in 2026, at different paces, according to the new edition of the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Supply Chain Planning Forecast.

PwC report indicates transportation and logistics dealmaking activity is focused on strategy, not scale
The report observed that T&L dealmaking activity gained renewed traction over the second half of this year, with buyers prioritizing strategic alignment over scale. And it added that acquirers focused on subsectors offering defensible growth, operating efficiency, and exposure to high-barrier markets, with activity across what the firm called the full value chain, ranging from infrastructure to asset-light platforms, coupled with capital allocated for things like technology modernization, resilient supply chains, and specialized logistics services.

ShipMatrix reports strong Cyber Week delivery performance results
For Cyber Week, which ShipMatrix defines as the week of December 1-7‑and a period in which more than 100 million parcels per day are handled, with more than 80% of these parcels being holiday gifts and delivered to residences—the firm reported very strong performance results for FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service (USPS).

National diesel average falls for the fourth straight week, reports EIA
With a 5.8-cent decline, the national average, for the week of December 15, came in at $3.607, following a 9.3-cent decline, to $3.758, for the week of December 1.

FTR’s Shippers Conditions Index shows modest growth
For October, the most recent month for which data is available, the SCI reading rose to 0.3, after September’s -0.5.

Trucking executives are set to anxiously welcome in New Year amid uncertainty regarding freight demand
Top trucking industry executives are hoping 2026 will—finally—be the year when pent-up demand translates into higher freight rates and a return to profitability in both the truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) sectors.

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