Pilots of Both Kinds Face Squeeze on Employment From Trade War and Automation — Panjiva
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Pilots of Both Kinds Face Squeeze on Employment From Trade War and Automation

Mode - Airfreight 182 Mode - Rail 120 Mode - Seaborne 1846 Mode - Truck 75 Theme - Employment 56 U.S. 5404

Employment in the U.S. logistics industry climbed by 3.7% year over year in November, making the fastest rate of expansion since December 2015. That’s been due to strength in the intra-national sectors including trucking, rail and couriers. The internationally-exposed sectors may be struggling due to the widening range of duties applied by the Trump administration against trading partners including China. The growth in air transport employment fell to 1.1% and was the slowest in over four years. Waterways and port employment (including harbor pilots) meanwhile fell 0.3%. That compared...

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