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Navigating AI-Driven Transformations in Equipment Leasing and Financing for the Transportation Sector

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across industries is reshaping how businesses operate, particularly within the transportation sector. One area seeing significant transformation is equipment leasing and...more

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Final-Mile Delivery and Nature of Commerce - The Most Important Legal Question Providers Struggle to Answer

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The growth of final-mile package deliveries, especially to residential delivery following the global pandemic, raises important legal questions about the transportation service performed by delivery drivers and their...more

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Cargo Loss and Damage Liability in eVTOL and UAV Transportation

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Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or, colloquially, drones) are increasingly being integrated into supply chains. ...more

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Ohio Joins Other States in Enacting Legislation to Govern Disputes Between Motor Carriers and Tow and Storage Providers Involved...

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On January 8, 2025, Governor Mike DeWine signed into law House Bill 403, which enacts § 4513.71 of the Ohio Revised Code and establishes clear dispute resolution protocols to secure expedited release of motor vehicles and...more

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Force Majeure Claims - Contract Provisions, Notices, and Ordinary Business Risk

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Force majeure contract provisions and force majeure notices have been top of mind more times in recent memory than we care to count. The recent short-lived port strike, two devastating hurricanes, and the Francis Scott Key...more

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Global Services Contracts - Going to Market with the Best Strategy for Your Case

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Global transportation and logistics services can amount to some of the largest expenses, and even the largest single contracts by spend, for enterprises with high traffic volumes. Among mature buyers and sellers of goods the...more

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Integrating Sustainability into Transportation Contracts: A Guide for Shippers

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As concerns about environmental degradation and climate change intensify, shippers across a wide variety of industry verticals are seeking ways to make their supply chain operations more environmentally sustainable....more

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Logistics on the Offensive: Using Contractual and Common Law Rights as a Sword

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We are now in the era of freedom of contract in the logistics arena. While contracts provide many protections to contracting parties, they can also be used offensively, to affirmatively protect legal rights. ...more

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Consejo de Estado unifica jurisprudencia sobre arbitrabilidad de actos administrativos

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La Sección Tercera del Consejo de Estado de Colombia resolvió recientemente el recurso extraordinario de anulación en contra del laudo del 11 de julio de 2022, proferido por el tribunal arbitral constituido para resolver las...more

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Third-Party Litigation Financing and Illinois’ Attempt to Regulate Has Implications for the Transportation Industry

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Third-party litigation financing is something defendants, and the transportation industry in particular, will likely increasingly see in lawsuits filed in Illinois. Generally, third-party litigation financing or funding is...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Argument on Arbitration Exemption for Food Delivery Drivers

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on Feb. 20, 2024, on whether food distributors are exempt from arbitration under Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), governing "contracts of employment of seamen,...more

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Using Contractual Rights as a Sword to Protect Your Interests in Uncertain Times

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As many in the industry are aware, we are now in, and have been for over a decade, the era of the transportation contract. More and more shipments, shipment schematics, and overall transportation relationships are governed by...more

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InterConnect Newsletter - Fall 2020

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One effect of the COVID-19 pandemic is the renewed need for transportation providers to consider strengthening operating platforms by expanding into new markets, integrating new offerings or adjacent services, or growing the...more

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COVID-19: Impact on Supply Chain / Transportation Contracts

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted, and will continue to impact, supply chains and transportation contracts. Those impacted will include the supplier/shipper, the carrier, and the purchaser/receiver. A common...more

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Coronavirus: Legal Considerations to a Global Health Emergency – French law focus

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What was first thought to be a cluster of pneumonia cases in the city of Wuhan, Hubei region in China turned out to be the start of a new strand of coronavirus (2019-nCoV). On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization...more

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Putting a Face on the Supply Chain: Resiliency or Achilles’ Heel?

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Find out why the recent coronavirus outbreak could have far-reaching implications on the human component of supply chains, and what factors should be considered to mitigate potential disruptions.  ...more

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Coronavirus/COVID-19: Implications for Commercial and Financial Contracts

The outbreak of coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) is reportedly impacting global manufacturing, transportation and cross-border supply chains underpinning many aspects of international trade and commerce. Some companies...more

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The ICC publishes Incoterms 2020

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On 10 September 2019, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) issued a much anticipated set of revisions to the Incoterms – the international commercial terms published to clarify the obligations of buyers and sellers in...more

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FMC Proposes Eliminating Requirement for Vessel Operators to Publish Essential Terms

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The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) voted in a closed session on Sept. 26, 2019, to eliminate the requirement for vessel operators to publish essential terms of their service contracts. The decision is a response to a...more

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Economic duress: will English law assist a party who enters into a contract as a result of a lawful threat of causing economic...

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It is clear that English law permits a party to avoid a contract on the grounds of economic duress but there is some uncertainty as to the circumstance in which a contract may be avoided for economic duress. Requiring...more

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Global Transportation Finance Newsletter - September 2019

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In This Issue – Economic duress: will English law assist a party who enters into a contract as a result of a lawful threat of causing economic harm? A Bird on the Ground is Worth One in the Sky: Lessons from ALC v. Far...more

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Guidelines for Standardization of Contracts and Tenders of Infrastructure Companies in the Area of Transportation

In light of the rise of investments in transportation projects, the Accountant General of the Ministry of Finance, the Director General of the Ministry of Transport, and the Manager of the Government Companies Authority...more

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The Washington Court of Appeals Clarifies When the Statute of Limitations for a Negligence Claim Begins to Run Under the Discovery...

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Dep’t of Transp. v. Seattle Tunnel Partners, 2019 BL 36988, 2 (Wash. App. Div. 2 Feb. 05, 2019) - On January 8, 2019, the Court of Appeals for the State of Washington reversed and remanded in part a trial court’s grant of...more

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Global Transportation Finance Newsletter - June 2017

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So, what is LIBOR? LIBOR—the London Interbank Offered Rate—is one of the most ubiquitous benchmarks for determining short-term interest rates in bank (and other) lending. LIBOR rates are short-term fixed rates quoted for...more

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Patent Trolls v. Transportation Companies – Contract Tips to Help Avoid Paying the Toll

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Transportation companies have become prime targets for patent infringement lawsuits in recent years. Some mistakenly assume that technology companies are the only companies subject to infringement claims, however, the use of...more

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