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...to start: rail group Canadian Pacific is set to present a new, higher offer to buy Kansas City Southern, worth about $31bn, including debt, in a move that is set to revive the takeover battle for the US freight...
...Other cities have created freight corridors which force big trucks down certain highways to distribution centres on the outskirts. Some have established consolidation centres....
...Uber has already structured its freight booking unit as a standalone business in which it owns a majority stake....
...Ford is experimenting with autonomous postal services, while General Motors through its Cruise unit is also planning to launch a public robo-taxi service....
...Other top shareholders General Motors, Fidelity and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz will each own stakes worth more than $1bn. Alphabet’s holding will be worth $924m....
...It offers rides in dozens of countries and has expanded into food delivery, freight, autonomous cars, flying taxis, bikes and scooters....
...With big tech and auto companies hoping to launch robotaxi fleets of their own — including Tesla, the Alphabet subsidiary Waymo and General Motors — prices are likely to fall quickly, says Mr Price....
...As well as targeting traditional diesel trucks, Tesla is looking to disrupt rail freight, too....
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...making it possible for pods carrying people or freight to move at close to the speed of sound....
...Last November, it unveiled a pilot customs transit system in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand to harmonise procedures for road freight....
...So after six years in Carrizo, another new start beckons for him and his RV motor home. “I’m probably going to end up in North Dakota or Ohio.”...
...Such trains – known as multiple units – have their motors hidden under the floors of passenger carriages....
...And overall growth in freight movements is no longer outpacing economic growth to the same degree as it did for much of the past decade....
...Alstom and TMH’s first joint project was to design a freight locomotive but the partners are expanding into passenger transport....
...The auction took place in a large three-sided marquee pitched next to the Donington Park motor racing circuit....
...According to Mr Vieth, freight rates are still climbing and corporate profits are buoyant....
...It has good transport links, is close to East Midlands Airport, the UK’s leader for freight, and is 90 minutes by train from London....
...Jaguar also says it is prepared to supplement some of the parts it gets by sea with air freight, if needed....
...Among the carmakers, Toyota Motor slid 1.6 per cent to Y3,090 and Nissan Motor dropped 4.3 per cent to Y648....
...Shipping groups advanced after the Baltic Dry index, which tracks commodity freight rates, reached its highest level in six months....
...Shipping lines also retreated on lower freight transport rates for commodities....
...Recovering freight rates and higher oil prices pushed the company’s shares up 9 per cent to DKr48,680....
...Tuesday’s first drop in nine days in the Baltic Dry index, a measure of shipping costs for commodities, weighed on bulk freight companies on Wednesday....
...Honda Motor rose 4.2 per cent to Y2,985, Toyota Motor gained 5.6 per centto Y3,760 and Canon added 5.4 per cent to Y3,530....
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