Dueling narratives ahead of Q4 transportation earnings

Freight Transport Q4 preview may be best in the last two years
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For the folks at Morgan Stanley, Q4 earnings season has the potential to reveal actual progress and results for freight transportation companies, according to a research report released on Monday. But the management teams themselves may not speak much of it. Ravi Shanker, equity analyst with Morgan Stanley, writes, “While companies are likely to talk down 1Q on seasonality, we see data momentum...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dueling-narratives-ahead-of-q4-transportation-earnings

Commentary: Milton’s long shadow holds his own fate — and Nikola’s

Trevor Milton against graphic backdrop in magnification

As the date of his federal fraud trial nears, Nikola founder Trevor Milton casts a long shadow over his own fate and that of the electric truck manufacturer.

Milton has not actively participated in the startup electric truck and hydrogen maker’s business in more than 16 months. Yet his influence as a major shareholder weighs heavily on the company.

Most recently his vote against increasing the number of authorized shares in Nikola — a move that would dilute his approximately 11% ownership stake —...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-miltons-long-shadow-holds-his-own-fate-and-nikolas

Effect of EVs on gas cars

According to a recent Bloomberg article, electric vehicles are taking off even faster than expected and “are eating into the transportation system and taking bigger bites every year.” Soon, it predicted, the number of gas cars globally will start to shrink and could largely affect transportation, fuel costs and energy systems.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) predicts that there will be more than 27 million electric passenger vehicles on the road by the end of 2022. There are currently fewer...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/effect-of-evs-on-gas-cars

Diesel rationing could hit East Coast this summer, refinery owner says

A silver tractor-trailer travels in front of a Love's and Arby's sign with high diesel prices.

The East Coast of the U.S. could face a worsening diesel shortage this summer, John Catsimatidis, CEO of United Refining Co., said in an interview with Bloomberg. United produces some 70,000 barrels of petroleum products each day and sells gasoline throughout western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania, according to the company’s website

“I wouldn’t be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the East Coast this summer,” Catsimatidis told Bloomberg’s Lucia Kassai. “Right now inventories...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/diesel-rationing-could-hit-east-coast-this-summer-refinery-owner-says

DSC keynote: Autonomous transport will spawn massive truckload consolidation

An inevitable shift to autonomous transportation will, at some point, trigger massive consolidation among U.S. truckload carriers, reshape the rivalry between trucking and railroading, and rationalize the transactional and relationship roles played by freight brokers, a leading analyst said Wednesday in a keynote address during FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit.  

Lee Klaskow, senior analyst of transportation and logistics at Bloomberg Intelligence, said the autonomous trucking...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dsc-keynote-autonomous-transport-will-spawn-massive-truckload-consolidation

FreightWaves SONAR data available now through Bloomberg

FreightWaves, the industry-leading provider of data, analytics and news for global supply chains and logistics, announced that two of the company’s proprietary tender indices are now available to Bloomberg Data License clients via the Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point.

The FreightWaves SONAR tender indices track contracted freight volume and capacity availability across the surface freight market. These tender indices provide upstream indicators of contract freight volume, capacity and rate...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-sonar-data-available-bloomberg-outbound-tender-volume-index-rejection-index

Greensill Capital reportedly faces $1.5 billion write-down, possible insolvency

Greensill Capital, a supply chain finance firm based in London, is discussing a possible insolvency within days, according to a Bloomberg report. 

The possible move follows the decision by Credit Suisse Group AG to freeze $10 billion worth of supply-chain finance funds that Greensill relies on, citing “considerable uncertainty” on the valuations of the holdings.  

Concurrent to insolvency discussions, Greensill is considering the sale of its operating business to Apollo Global Management Inc. for...

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