Borderlands: Mexico truck makers break export record in August

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico truck makers break an export record in August; trucks moved $44 billion in U.S.-Mexico cross-border freight in July; Kia announces a $408 million expansion to grow its operations in Mexico; and an autonomous vehicle technology maker plans a factory in Mexico.

Mexico truck makers set monthly export record in August

Mexico’s heavy-duty truck exports soared to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/mexico-truck-makers-break-export-record-in-august

The Light Load: Mr. Durr goes to Trenton

Furniture truck driver Edward Durr spent $153, half of it on doughnuts, unseating New Jersey’s hermetically entrenched state Senate president, Stephen Sweeney, D-Trauma Unit Somewhere. (For comparison, in an act of refreshing futility, Sweeney raised $750,000 in a single night.)

Talk about strategic use of campaign funds. Give Durr a roll of duct tape and I’m guessing he’ll solve world hunger.

In the wake of this giant slayer’s Dunkin-fueled short haul to Trenton, I’ve read bushels of tweets to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-light-load-mr-durr-goes-to-trenton

Major Retailers Struggle With Surging Transportation And Tariff Costs

As Home Depot heads into its busy spring project season – when shoppers build backyard decks and buy patio furniture – it is tangling with surging costs for goods and transportation, on top of tariffs that cost it and other U.S. importers billions of dollars, reports Reuters.

The pressure 

Across the United States, major retailers and makers of everything from Peloton spin bikes and La-Z-Boy recliners to Kia Sorrento SUVs are battling the same profit-squeezing pressures. They pass those costs...

https://mfame.guru/major-retailers-struggle-with-surging-transportation-and-tariff-costs/

Georgia Ports marks decade of partnership with Kia

During a board meeting held at the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Ports Authority recognized a decade of partnership between Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia and GPA.

“Kia is one of our largest customers at the Port of Savannah, and a stellar example of the kind of advanced manufacturing going on across Georgia,” said GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch. “At Georgia Ports, we are proud to support the positive impact Kia has on the state’s economy.”

Over the past decade, the...

https://container-news.com/georgia-ports-partnership-kia/

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