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What’s Backed Up at the Suez Canal? Live Animals, Oil and Food

Crews are still struggling to remove Ever Given, a stranded container ship longer than the Eiffel Tower, and a look at the type of cargoes waiting to pass show the shipping delays will affect a range of industries.

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Protecting Your Supply Chain From Forced Labor

Businesses and suppliers alike must take preemptive action to rid their supply chains of forced labor, or face irreversible damage to their consumer base.

The Slavery Footprint app, created by Made in a Free World, generates estimates of an individual's reliance on slave labor from data on trafficked humans and labor-abuse rates at manufacturers and suppliers. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: The Arrival of the Autonomous Supply Chain

A discussion of what constitutes an “autonomous” supply chain, the functions that it controls, and how far it is from becoming a reality, with two executives from aThingz: Vijaya Neela, president and chief executive officer, and Kannan Ramachandran, chief artificial intelligence officer and chief commercial officer.

The Arrival of the Autonomous Supply Chain

Fight Between Commodities Giants and Shippers Leaves Seafarers Stuck

A standoff between commodities giants and shipping companies is prolonging the labor crisis at sea, with an estimated 200,000 seafarers still stuck on their vessels beyond the expiration of their contracts and past the requirements of globally accepted safety standards.

Emissions from a cargo ship at dusk. Photo: Shutterstock.

Fire and Ice Aggravate Chip Supply Headache for Car Industry

A fire at a semiconductor factory in Japan, cold weather in North America and ongoing competition for chips are all hitting the global auto industry at the same time, threatening to exacerbate supply shortages of a key component that began late last year.

Photo: Bloomberg

Supply Chains Are Facing a Credit-Demand Conundrum

Demand for trade credit has grown alongside the pandemic, and will not slow this year. Maybe not ever.

Photo: Bloomberg

For Supply-Chain Financing, Digital Cash Is Just Better

Financial terms are becoming a game between the strengths and weaknesses in supply chain, and there’s often a question of whether to prioritize core companies and help them grow bigger, or boost smaller businesses that may be struggling to survive.

Cold Chain Technologies Partners With Cloudleaf to On Real-Time Visibility Solution for Temperature-Sensitive Drugs

Cold Chain Technologies, a global provider of thermal assurance solutions for the distribution and transport of temperature-sensitive products, recently announced a partnership with Cloudleaf, a provider of digital supply chain solutions, to launch Cold Chain Technologies Smart Solutions.

What's Shaping the Future of Work in the Warehouse

A year into the pandemic, the need for reliable warehousing and smooth distribution has become greater than ever before.

Photo: Bloomberg

How to Approach Cybersecurity Through Tech, People and Processes

While businesses build cybersecurity fortresses for themselves, there are several vulnerabilities at touchpoints with manufacturers, suppliers, global partners and other service providers to consider.

Computer code and text displayed on computer screens. Photo: Bloomberg.

China’s Comeback and Nomadic Sourcing: The Pandemic Trends That Will Stay

China’s comeback, the global shift toward nomadic sourcing and a rising rate of labor abuses are trends likely to linger on.

Container ships are moored near the Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: Business and Government’s Role in Strengthening Critical Supply Chains

Benjamin Ruddell, Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing & Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, offers advice to both the private and public sectors on how best to carry out President Biden’s recent executive order on creating more resilient supply chains for essential goods.

Business and Government’s Role in Strengthening Critical Supply Chains

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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