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J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., a bellwether for the US freight market, has added to evidence that 2025 could be yet another lost year for cargo. ...
More than two years ago, billionaire Brad Jacobs announced plans to start a new roll-up venture after a move in 2022 to break into three parts XPO,...
Delta Air Lines Inc.’s competitive moat is only growing wider and deeper. The Atlanta-based airline on Friday reported fourth-quarter earnings that...
Imagine a game show host whips out a card sometime in the near future and reads: “This pioneering manufacturing company is a conglomerate that’s...
The new year will start with plenty of intrigue, especially in manufacturing, aerospace and logistics, the area where I hunt for interesting...
FedEx Corp.’s decision on Thursday to cleave off its freight unit will unlock value for shareholders, for sure. It will also expose the remaining...
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has reanimated excitement over quantum computing with an announcement about how its new chip, Willow, trounced a classical...
Scale matters in the airline industry. Just look at the divergent stories of JetBlue Airways Corp., which tried twice and failed to gain more...
President-elect Donald Trump tapped into a vein of discontent among workers when he railed against companies that moved factories to low-cost...
The aerospace industry was relieved last year when the Federal Aviation Administration, the main regulator for all things that fly, finally got an...
When they have their DOGE hats on, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy should sit down with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to discuss the opportunities...
Normally, a cut to a financial target spells trouble for a company. Not so much for Honeywell Aerospace, which produces an array of aircraft...
The drumbeat for breaking up Honeywell International Inc., which makes products in the aerospace, energy and industrial automation industries, has...
The Federal Aviation Administration held an event at a business aircraft conference in October to unveil 880 pages of regulations for...
A true win-win-win situation doesn’t come along often. One could be brewing with a Boeing Co. decision to look at a potential sale — or perhaps...
Kelly Ortberg, the chief executive officer of Boeing Co., on Wednesday morning had his first earnings conference call with analysts, who heard him...
The gap between the haves and have-nots in the US airline industry is only growing. Delta Air Lines Inc., which reported third-quarter earnings on...
For those fearful that artificial intelligence and robots are going to eventually replace everyone’s job, the logistics industry offers a case...
The port strike along the East and Gulf coasts, as expected, didn’t last long. The only surprise is that the two sides worked out an agreement...
While a strike by East Coast port workers is strangling the flow of goods from Maine to Texas and grabbing headlines, news of machinists at Boeing...
The much-anticipated labor strike at ports along the East and Gulf coasts has begun, and the impact is a bit anticlimactic — for now. Retailers,...
Southwest Airlines Co.’s Chief Executive Officer Bob Jordan did his best on Thursday to put a nail in the coffin on activist Elliott Investment...
Boeing Co.’s labor negotiators should have paid more attention to how Carol Tomé, the chief executive officer of United Parcel Service Inc.,...
East Coast port operators and carriers will have to pay up to head off a strike on Oct. 1, the day after the expiration of a six-year contract with...
In a pre-pandemic throwback to when interest rates were in free-money territory and before heated geopolitics made resilience a boardroom buzzword,...
The US freight railroads have not been increasing the amount of cargo they haul for the past two decades, and that’s a problem because there is...
The long-haul trucking industry doesn’t offer robust, steady growth that entices investors to buy a stock and just sit on it. The industry has bull...
It’s hard to overstate the damage that a machinists strike could do to Boeing Co. and, more important, to the planemaker’s fragile supply chain....
Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines Co.’s chief executive officer, has kept his job amid the activist onslaught from Elliott Investment Management, the...
It was once a competitive disadvantage not to manufacture in China. The country joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, reducing barriers for...
It takes great skill in managing assets and planning long term to succeed as an ocean freight carrier. New ships are expensive, take several years...
So, you’re really going to fly on Labor Day weekend? The typical advice is to arm yourself with patience and prepare for the worst. After all,...
Bombardier Inc.’s bumpy ride over the last several years has settled into a smooth flight with much clearer skies ahead. Investors shared the...
The driverless trucking revolution will start with a whimper this year and, if Aurora Innovation Inc. is successful, it will stay that way. Aurora...
The general public’s direct interaction with the US Postal Service has been declining for decades now. How many young people have mailed a letter...
FedEx Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Raj Subramaniam seems to be making all the right moves in his push to transform the courier after taking over...
Boeing Co. reported on Wednesday that its sales plunged 15% in the second quarter from a year earlier and that it burned through $4.3 billion of...
Stuck in Space! That’s what some headlines are screaming about Boeing Co.’s latest setback with its Starliner capsule. It’s a storyline that could...
The aviation gods seem to be easily provoked by boastful airline executives. That’s the colorful explanation for why Delta Air Lines Inc. was dealt...
When companies or policymakers try to force green technology onto an industry, it usually doesn’t work out. It’s akin to forcing on footwear that’s...
An animal that’s cornered and fighting for its life is at its most dangerous. The same goes for airlines. Low-cost carriers, including Frontier...