Autonomous trucking company TuSimple has filed paperwork to go public and plans to join the U.S. stock market as early as next month. (WSJ)
President Biden announced three nominees to the Postal Board of Governors. (WSJ)
Volvo and Geely Automobile will combine their engine and transmissions business but backed away from a full-blown merger. (WSJ)
Making delivery of natural gas in Texas more resilient will be expensive and politically challenging. (WSJ)
Graphics-chip maker Nvidia’s fourth-quarter revenue soared 61% to a record $5 billion. (WSJ)
Department store chain Belk filed for bankruptcy protection with plans to exit chapter 11 almost immediately. (WSJ)
Specialized San Francisco-based retailer Fry’s Electronics abruptly shut down. (WSJ)
A federal judge backed shippers in ruling the details of conversations between the nation’s four largest railroads should be included in lawsuits challenging billions of dollars of freight charges. (Associated Press)
Best Buy plans to cut sales-floor space at many retail outlets to devote more room to e-commerce fulfillment. (Bloomberg)
Aerospace parts supplier Spirit AeroSystems consolidated its warehouse space into a single, compact facility in Wichita, Kans. (Supply Chain Dive)
Shipping lines are suspending bookings into Myanmar. (The Loadstar)
U.S. West Coast container-handling delays are stretching to the Pacific Northwest ports. (Journal of Commerce)
Shipping analyst group Bimco expects the dry-bulk fleet to grow about 2% this year after expanding 3.8% in 2020. (Lloyd’s List)
Clarksons says tanker earnings in January reached the lowest level in 20 years. (TradeWinds)
Wallenius Wilhelmsen is bringing three more car carriers back into service in the recovering automotive market. (Splash 247)
A.P. Moeller-Maersk plans to name Amparo Moraleda, a former executive with Spanish power company Iberdrola and IBM, to its board of directors. (Dow Jones Newswires)
DFDS will start buying ammonia shipping fuel for its European passenger and freight ferries in 2026. (ShippingWatch)
A planned rail line connecting Pakistan to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan could provide big cargo volumes to the ports of Karachi and Gwadar. (Port Technology)
Volvo Trucks and DHL will work together in Europe to develop a heavy-duty electric truck. (Post & Parcel)
Oversized-goods returns specialist FloorFound raised $4 million in a seed funding round. (Crunchbase)
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