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FedEx Reaches Tentative 40% Pay Deal With Pilots, Ending Five-Year Labor Standoff

FedEx and the Air Line Pilots Association reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday to raise pilot hourly wages by approximately 40% in 2026, followed by 3% annual increases through 2030, along with up to $150,000 in retroactive pay for senior captains — potentially ending one of the longest-running labor disputes in U.S. aviation history.

Strait of Hormuz Effectively Closed: Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, CMA CGM Halt All Transits as Shipping Stocks Surge

The world's four largest container shipping carriers suspended all vessel crossings through the Strait of Hormuz following Iranian attacks on tankers transiting the waterway, triggering a 70 percent drop in traffic and sending shares of Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd surging more than 4 percent as investors anticipated higher freight rates, war-risk surcharges, and prolonged rerouting of global cargo around Africa's Cape of Good Hope.