In this photo provided by South Bow, a vacuum truck transfers oil into a storage tank at the scene of a spill of the Keystone oil pipeline. (South Bow via AP) BISMARCK, N.D. — Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons ...more
Apple's Fifth Avenue store in New York displays iPhones. (Yuki Iwamura/File/AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tariff exemptions announced April 11 on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said April 13. White House officials, ...more
A truck navigates along 34th Street in New York City. (Alexander Shapovalov/Getty Images) New York City has launched a one-year experiment offering 45 metered truck parking spaces in three outer borough industrial business zones (IBZs) to curb illegal parking and give truckers a safe area to rest. “We understand the importance of truck deliveries in ...more
A truck navigates along 34th Street in New York City. (Alexander Shapovalov/Getty Images) New York City has launched a one-year experiment offering 45 metered truck parking spaces in three outer borough industrial business zones (IBZs) to curb illegal parking and give truckers a safe area to rest. “We understand the importance of truck deliveries in ...more
A pharmacy technician grabs prescription medicine off a shelf at a pharmacy in Midvale, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images) President Donald Trump’s administration pressed forward with plans to impose tariffs on semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports by initiating probes led by the Commerce Department. The moves, announced April 14 in the Federal Register, are a precursor to ...more
A worker moves a shipping container at Felixstowe port in Felixstowe, United Kingdom, on April 9. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News) Several small U.S. businesses sued President Donald Trump over his “Liberation Day” tariffs in the latest legal challenge to his use of sweeping executive powers to extract concessions from foreign trade partners. Trump’s use of the ...more
The driverless trucks powered by its technology have also surpassed 750 hours of commercial operations across western Texas’ Permian Basin without a human driver on board. (Seth Clevenger/Transport Topics) Kodiak Robotics is positioning itself to become publicly traded by entering into a definitive business combination agreement with special purpose acquisition company Ares Acquisition Corp. II ...more
An Nvidia Blackwell GPU chip. (Akio Kon/Bloomberg) LOS ANGELES — Nvidia announced April 14 that it will produce its artificial intelligence supercomputers in the United States for the first time. The tech giant said it has commissioned more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its specialized Blackwell chips in ...more
Orbcomm In his 47 years as a technician, Tony Morthland remembers a time when preventive maintenance on trailers was only performed at three-month intervals. Later, it extended to four months, and nowadays, it’s at six. Today, it’s not uncommon for technicians to see trailers once or twice a year, said Morthland, who is now the ...more
Workers on the production line of the Renault SA Kwid compact vehicle at the Renault-Sofasa Envigado Assembly Plant in Medellin, Colombia, on April 2. (Edinson Arroyo/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump said he is exploring possible exemptions to his tariffs on imported vehicles and parts to give auto companies more time to set up U.S. manufacturing. “I’m ...more
