27 October 2026
Chamber of Commerce CEO Andrew McKellar appears to suddenly be everywhere, all at once.
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27 October 2026
Nearly a third of a survey's respondents say they offer employee share schemes as part of an overall remuneration package.
27 October 2026
Almost half of the workforce seeking employment have reported being ghosted while searching for a job.
27 October 2026
For a small carrier, the choice of whether to own a trailer, finance one, run power only, or rent by the day looks like a simple equipment question, but it is really a business decision with a cost structure attached to every option, and getting that math wrong is one of the quietest and most expensive mistakes a growing fleet can make, which is the thread that ran through a recent Long Haul conversation recorded at F3 in Chattanooga with Matt Harb, Vice President of Product and Operations at the trailer-sharing marketplace Repowr. Harb spends his days on the phone with owner-operators and small fleets, and he said the point of those calls is to understand what is actually weighing on them, from fuel costs to how they are landing and keeping customers. What he keeps hearing underneath all of it is that the trailer, the so-called dumb box behind the truck, quietly dictates which loads a carrier can and cannot take. That is the problem Repowr is built to solve, and the way Harb talks about it reframes the trailer from a thing you buy into a lever you pull only when the business case is there. The Long Haul at F3 https://t.
27 October 2026
Typhoon Champi and persistent congestion at major Southeast Asian and South Asian ports are providing temporary support to container freight rates, disrupting vessel schedules and delaying some ships by up to three days. However, the reprieve is unlikely to reverse the market’s downward trajectory as excess capacity, aggressive price competition and the onset of the winter slack season continue to weigh on rates. Linerlytica’s report today stated that Champi, declared the strongest ... The post Champi’s support won’t reverse market trend appeared first on The Loadstar .
27 October 2026
Authorities demanded he hand over his passport after loss to Lula but far-right senator remains unaccounted for The far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has not been seen since Monday and missed a Tuesday-morning deadline to hand his passport to the federal police, fuelling rumours that he may have fled Brazil after losing Sunday’s presidential election. A supreme court justice cancelled Bolsonaro’s passport minutes after the result in a ruling related to a criminal case against the senator. He had until 11am to surrender the document to the federal police, but did not appear.
27 October 2026
Supporters of the opposition movement that won Sunday’s election stormed the offices of a pro-government tabloid. Another news outlet apologized for years of “one-sided” coverage.
27 October 2026
The party leader says it's "clear as daylight" the captain of the ship was hired through a diversity, equity and inclusion programme.
