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...The company, then known as YRC Worldwide, received a $700mn Covid-19 relief loan from the Trump administration during the summer of 2020, resulting in the federal government holding a 30 per cent stake in...
...Nearly 40 per cent of some 535 dark fleet tankers have registered ownership via shelf companies incorporated in the Marshall Islands....
...YRC had warned last month that it may not be able to stay in business due to the crisis, which has led to a plunge in shipments as well as a decline in rates paid by its customers....
...While companies that want to decarbonise their supply chains have tackled what she calls “the lowest hanging fruit”, they have been slower to clean up dirty industries such as road freight or shipping....
...to globalisation — seem newly fashionable in business....
...The United States has more than three million truck drivers, many of whom drive long-haul, or “over the road” as it’s known in the business....
...Community benefit societies are incorporated industrial and provident groups that conduct business for the benefit of their community....
...The names of the biggest trucking lines – JB Hunt, YRC, Schneider National and Ryder – become as familiar as the names of the fast-food chains in the roadside stop-offs....
...“Carriers claim current freight rates are not sustainable for them to stay in business,” Mr Whitfield said. “I think they’re definitely not sustainable....
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