Freight News

• Caterpillar (CAT) to Report Q2 Earnings: What's in Store?
  
  Caterpillar's (CAT) second-quarter 2021 results are likely to reflect improved demand in its end markets. Higher input and freights costs are anticipated to have acted as headwinds.
  Zacks.  Monday, 26 Jul 2021.
• Daily tests not self-isolation for police, fire, borders, transport and freight staff
  
  Police, fire, borders and transport staff are now eligible in England, with 200 new test centres promised.
  BBC News.  Saturday, 24 Jul 2021.
• Covid-19: More testing sites for key workers to avoid isolation in England
  
  Police, transport, freight and fire workers will be able to join the daily contact testing scheme.
  BBC News.  Saturday, 24 Jul 2021.
• Gentex (GNTX) Q2 Earnings & Sales Miss Mark, 2H'21 View Dull
  
  Gentex (GNTX) anticipates lower light vehicle production, and high commodity, freight and labor expenses to weigh on the firm's earnings as well as sales for second-half 2021.
  Zacks.  Friday, 23 Jul 2021.
• Uber Boosts Trucking Push With $2.25 Billion Deal To Buy Freight Service Transplace
  
  The ridehail giant aims to turn its Uber Freight unit into a top player in arranging and tracking shipments of goods.
  Forbes.  Thursday, 22 Jul 2021.
• Uber to buy a company that makes software to manage shipping for $2.25 billion
  
  Uber Freight will acquire Transplace from TPG Capital, the private equity platform of alternative asset firm TPG.
  CNBC.  Thursday, 22 Jul 2021.
• Select Energy Services Invests In Driver Safety
  
  Water is essential to the process of hydraulic fracturing. But driving trucks to remote oil fields is more dangerous than other forms of freight logistics. ....
  Forbes.  Wednesday, 21 Jul 2021.
• M11 explosion: Part of motorway remains closed after a lorry's aerosol cans explode
  
  Both the north and southbound carriageways of the M11 remain closed at this time, after shocking video footage showed a lorry's aerosol cargo catching fire and then exploding.
  Daily Mail.  Thursday, 15 Jul 2021.
• Haunting photos show underwater wreckage of Boeing cargo plane off
  
  Transair Flight 810 was found approximately 2 miles offshore from Ewa Beach, after a the pilot made a ditch landing in the Pacific Ocean. Both crew members were rescued from the water.
  Daily Mail.  Sunday, 11 Jul 2021.
• As Covid Outbreak Worsens, Fiji's Athletes Board a Plane to the Olympics
  
  Almost all passenger flights from the country were suspended until the end of July. So the team hopped a ride to Tokyo on a cargo plane carrying a shipment of frozen fish.
  New York Times.  Thursday, 8 Jul 2021.
• Egypt Releases Cargo Ship That Blocked The Suez Canal After Reaching Multimillion-Dollar Deal With Owner
  
  The Suez Canal Authority held a ceremony marking the release of the ship
  Daily Caller.  Wednesday, 7 Jul 2021.
• NTSB to interview pilots, survey site of ditched 737 cargo plane off Hawaii coast
  
  The NTSB will survey the site of a Boeing 737 cargo plane's ditching.
  CNBC.  Monday, 5 Jul 2021.
• Cargo Ship, Recently Israeli-Led, Is Struck in High Seas Encounter
  
  The attack, which did little if any damage, appeared to be the latest act in the shadow war between Iran and Israel.
  New York Times.  Sunday, 4 Jul 2021.
• Cargo plane pilots rescued after emergency landing off Hawaii
  
  Two pilots were rescued after the cargo plane they were flying made an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. Carter Evans has more details.
  CBS News.  Friday, 2 Jul 2021.
• Boeing 737 cargo plane crash-lands in ocean off Hawaii; pilots rescued
  
  Dramatic video shows a helicopter and Honolulu Fire Department boat rescue the two pilots from the water in the dark of night.
  CBS News.  Friday, 2 Jul 2021.

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