Supply and demand have returned to equilibrium, for now Analysts noted that this year’s peak season did not follow the usual pattern of early‑December slowdowns before holiday rushes. Instead, strong demand persisted through late December, influenced by winter weather disruptions and elevated consumer activity from Thanksgiving through Christmas. These conditions helped create a more sustained freight push than seen in recent peak seasons.   For smaller fleets and owner‑opera

Revised DMV rules pave the way for heavy-duty driverless vehicles, balancing safety concerns with the push for innovation. California is a state of dichotomies when it comes to autonomous vehicles. On one hand, the state boasts Silicon Valley’s leading AV innovators, like Waymo, based in Mountain View, California, and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. Waymo’s robotaxis roam the hilly streets of San Francisco and the palm-lined streets of Los Angeles

Prime Minister Mark Carney has begun to lay out publicly what he sees as boundaries when dealing with China, as his government wades into a new relationship with the economic giant. Carney, who earlier this year called China one of Canada's biggest security threats, has more recently spoken openly about resetting the relationship with Beijing as the Liberal government seeks more trading partners in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war. In a year-end interview w

TORONTO — Canada and the U.S. will launch formal discussions to review their free trade agreement in mid-January, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. The prime minister confirmed to provincial leaders that Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s point person for U.S.-Canada trade relations, “will meet with U.S. counterparts in mid-January to launch formal discussions," Carney’s office said in a statement late Dec. 18. The United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, or

Canada’s job market continued to shrink in the third quarter of 2025, with total vacancies dropping to 492,500, a 2.8 per cent decline from the previous quarter, according to Statistics Canada’s latest report. The decrease marked the third consecutive quarterly fall in openings this year, and the 13th since job vacancies peaked at 985,900 in mid-2022 — a downward trend in which the market has moved from labour shortage to job shortage. Data from the Job Vacancy and Wage Surve

The global containership industry is bracing for potential market upheaval as the orderbook has swelled to 11.61 million TEU, representing 34.8% of the current fleet—a level that extends well beyond routine fleet replacement needs, according to maritime intelligence firm Linerlytica. The surge comes on the back of an unprecedented ordering spree in 2025, with carriers placing orders for 633 ships totaling 5.08 million TEU, surpassing previous records set in 2021 and 2024. Rec

The Mexican government says the tariffs will defend jobs and supply chains; critics warn it will raise costs for consumers and manufacturers The Mexican government on Wednesday approved a sweeping package of new import tariffs — some as high as 50% — on more than 1,400 products from China and other Asian nations. The tariffs are a dramatic shift in trade policy that analysts say is designed to shore up domestic industry while easing pressure from the U.S. ahead of contentious