Strike action piles new bottlenecks on Europe’s two busiest ports
The fresh disruptions come as the Asia-Europe trade lane continues to present shippers with the worst schedule reliability among the major ocean corridors.
The fresh disruptions come as the Asia-Europe trade lane continues to present shippers with the worst schedule reliability among the major ocean corridors.
Rail authorities have had to restrict or suspend train services into India’s busiest gateway multiple times in recent weeks in an attempt to clear the backlog of import containers trapped in port yards.
Ongoing U.S. trade policy uncertainty and the need for significant production investments present industry hurdles, per a 2025 fashion benchmarking study.
The LockerNYC pilot program, which is growing to 70 locations, looks to tackle package theft and traffic congestion in the Big Apple.
Building on a nationwide partnership announced last week, the grocer will rely on the service’s sites to fulfill groceries and household goods.
“End to end, every segment of what we do is driven by some form of intelligence,” said Indira Uppuluri, SVP of supply chain technology.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case, and without a clear ruling from the Court, brokers, shippers and manufacturers will face ongoing uncertainty, potentially weakening the national economy, writes trucking expert Matthew Leffler.
Shaun Stevenson, who guided development of Prince Rupert’s Fairview Container Terminal and the port’s intermodal services to Chicago and eastern Canada, is leaving at year’s end after 28 years with the port, including the last seven as CEO.
Upheaval in global trade is putting more pressure on forwarders to invest in automation to price their services quickly and more effectively, an area that startup Nexcade is targeting.
Some global executives are also rethinking network geographies, choosing facility locations based on energy reliability, a Prologis survey found.