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Hurricane Irma’s arrival this weekend threatens to roil US supply chains and double truckload spot rates, with analysts and transport providers warning it could take up to six months to recover. Transportation providers are still reeling from Hurricane Harvey, the Category 3 storm that hit the US Gulf Coast two...

Hurricane Irma is moving toward the west-northwest near 14 mph (22 km/h), and this motion is expected to continue for the next day or so with a decrease in forward speed. A turn toward the northwest is expected by late Saturday. On the forecast track, the eye of Irma should...

Hurricane Irma is shaping up to be potentially catastrophic to shippers’ supply chains and shipments as the storm now threatens not only the Caribbean but the entire southeast United States. Ports from Miami to Charleston now lie in the Category 5 storm’s projected path, most within mandatory evacuation zones, and...

A little more than a week after Hurricane Harvey roiled Gulf Coast supply chains, another larger and stronger storm is threatening days-long delays and significant damage to cargo in the Caribbean and US Southeast. Hurricane Irma, now the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic since 2005, has been characterized as a...

Roads throughout Texas and the US Gulf Coast remain closed to traffic more than a week after Hurricane Harvey made landfall. Trucking operators are putting rigs back on the road in Houston, but slow-to-recede floodwaters and road closures complicate efforts to restore service. Shippers moving goods through and to the...

Driver hours-of-service rules are being relaxed in 26 states and the District of Columbia under a state of emergency announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on August 31. The declaration is in response to “fuel shortages due to refinery delays and interruption of delivery through pipelines as a...

As Hurricane Harvey recedes, truck rates will only rise, not just in Texas but nationwide, thanks to the Gulf Coast storm. The question is, by how much? Perhaps in the high single digits, an industry pricing expert said.  “It will be somewhere in the 8 to 10 percent range, but...

Flood waters in Mumbai are reportedly receding, but delays plague the airport and sea terminals as another global supply chain hub succumbs to incremental weather. Reporting its heaviest rainfall in more than a decade, India’s second-largest city joins Hong Kong and Houston, both hit by severe storms in the last...

Port Houston will reopen its terminals for business on Sept. 1, Port Commission Chairman Janiece Longoria announced at an evening press conference Aug. 31. The Barbours Cut Terminal, Bayport Container Terminal and Turning Basin Terminal will be open for truck operations from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 1. “Although...

It goes without saying that that tragic events and circumstances related to Tropical Storm Harvey are unprecedented in many ways, based on the extent of current damage and, sadly, a number of lost lives, as well as various forecasts and experts expecting things to worsen before they get better. And...