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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to distribute 15.6 million cloth masks throughout the freight and passenger sector in a ramp-up of efforts by the Trump Administration to keep the coronavirus pandemic under control among transportation workers. "Transportation workers are on the...

President Donald Trump has the authority to issue full reimbursement for expenses incurred by states in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reports.  FEMA Funding Only Provides Partial Relief  Thirty-nine states and territories have requested the full...

A group of lawmakers wants the next COVID-19 relief package to include the creation of a "supply chain czar" to ensure personal protective equipment (PPE) gets to truck drivers and other essential workers. In a letter sent to congressional leadership last week, 25 Democrats from the U.S. House of...

The frequency of freighter aircraft transporting emergency supplies to the U.S. from overseas continues to grow in support of government and private-sector relief efforts for coronavirus prevention and treatment. Project Airbridge, the airlift organized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (...

Commercial cargo aircraft are criss-crossing the globe with humanitarian relief to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it is organizing flights to Africa, while other governments and private entities continue to arrange airlifts of their own. A United...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's airlift of emergency supplies to combat the novel coronavirus is kicking into overdrive, but House lawmakers are raising questions about how decisions are being made to intervene in private-sector supply chains and divert resources to locations identified...

United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) was identified early on as one of the private-sector logistics companies involved with Project Airbridge, the airlift coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help plug the shortage of critical medical supplies for the coronavirus...

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act got a lot of attention in the early Trump years when the president invoked the passage to restrict steel and aluminum imports. The act allows officials to tax foreign products that are considered to be weakening national security. The coronavirus...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday touted the success of a government airlift that is bringing urgently needed medical supplies from around the world to healthcare workers combating the coronavirus.  At a White House briefing, Trump said three large cargo planes arrived over the weekend. A...

A planeload of medical supplies from China coordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been redirected to Los Angeles International Airport after being scheduled to land this morning in Ohio, said Sarah McQuaide, a spokeswoman for the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. The...

Large numbers of dedicated freighters are descending on China to pick up face masks and other equipment being made in large quantities after the country was able to stop the spread of COVID-19 and reopen factories. No longer requiring as much equipment for its own use, China is churning out...

General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Ventec Life Systems announced details on a partnership to produce ventilators at GM's Kokomo, Indiana plant Friday, following a report that the White House had called off an earlier rollout of the effort with GM and Ventec. GM and Ventec's announcement...

Freight brokers told us that disaster relief freight – mostly truckloads of bottled water at this point – is already being tendered as of Wednesday evening, August 28. Chattanooga brokers LYNC Logistics and Trident Transport said they received requests from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (...

This article was originally published on freightwaves.com in 2017 in reaction to Hurricane Harvey. FreightWaves continues to receive questions regarding relief loads, so we are republishing it to help answer some of those questions. I started Xpress Direct in 2002 and ran the operation until 2005...

Joseph Lipsey III, CEO of Chattanooga-based transportation companies Lipsey Logistics and Lipsey Trucking, was arrested on Tuesday in Aspen, CO, for distribution of cocaine to a minor, three counts of serving alcohol to a minor, possession of drug paraphernalia, and providing nicotine to minors....