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Who's to Blame for the Trucker Shortage?

Help wanted: America needs truck drivers. In 2015, American Trucking Associations estimated that for-hire trucking companies had nearly 50,000 fewer drivers than they needed. The shortage was less severe in 2016, but the trade group expects it to worsen in coming years.

The Shale Industry Is Scrambling to Catch Up to Its Own Boom

Five years ago, the thought of $55-a-barrel oil would have given Piotr Galitzine heartburn. Now it's keeping one of his steel-pipe shops in Houston open 24/7 and fueling a flurry of orders.

The Most Valuable Resource - People - Is Declining Globally

Analyst Insight: The most important resource for the supply chain moving forward is people. However, the outlook is grim. The world's labor supply is shrinking, which has huge implications at a macro level on GDP and economic growth and at a business level in terms of available talent. The world labor supply hit an inflection point in 2012, when the proportion of nonworking age population "growth" became greater than the working age population. – John Johnson, senior content specialist, Gartner

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Trump Trade Friction Overlooks America's Surplus in Services

One thing that's often missed in President Donald Trump's complaints about the U.S. trade deficit is America's $248bn surplus in exports of services like education, banking and software.

After Brexit, Who Will Feed All These Chickens?

Following a drive through English farmland, past thatched-roof cottages and thick forests, chicken farmer Mark Gorton stops his Land Rover on a narrow lane to speak to a worker in a white truck.

South Korea's LG Electronics to Build U.S. Factory in Tennessee

South Korean conglomerate LG Electronics Inc. said it is planning to build a new washing machine factory in Tennessee, its first major U.S. plant, and hire at least 600 workers by the end of 2019.

Cargill Tackles Child Labour in Cocoa Supply Chain

Food and agriculture giant Cargill has partnered with the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) to improve efforts to stop child labour in Cote d'Ivoire.

Boeing to Open First European Factory, to Invest 20M Pounds

Boeing Co. said it would invest 20m pounds ($24.98m) to open its first production facility in Europe to make components for certain aircraft.

Looking Ahead: These Jobs Could Be Automated Within the Next Decade

When weighing career paths, or at least when debating a job proposal, one thing people consider is job security: Will the work still be there in the near future, or will they need to prepare to start hunting for a new position soon? This question gains depth when you add in the issue of automation: Artificial intelligence is a constantly improving technology, and its applications seem endless.

Trump Talk Rattles Aerospace Industry, Up and Down Supply Chain

At this small factory south of Seattle, employees make one of the most specialized products in the aerospace industry; the rubber mats that Boeing workers stand on while assembling jets. As long as there are jets and Boeing, business would seem to be steady. But even here workers are bracing for bumps and economic uncertainty over the gritty details of where aviation parts get made and who makes them.

Construction Contractors to Map Supply Chains for Modern Slavery

Several large construction contractors are collaborating to map their supply chains for modern slavery.

How Can We Save American Manufacturing?

American manufacturing is in need of a reboot.

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