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New Zero Emissions Service Helps North American Air and Sea Customers Offset Carbon Footprints

Gebrüder Weiss, a global freight forwarder, has introduced its new Zero Emissions service to its customers in North America.

The Future of Food Retail Is a Hybrid Approach to Shopping

From erecting cardboard cutouts designed to obscure produce shortages to jettisoning their usual discounts and promotions, grocers have turned to a range of solutions to get themselves through the global supply chain crisis.

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Supply Chain Crisis Helped Shipping Companies Reap $150 Billion in 2021

Economists warn that persistently high transportation prices are stoking inflation and clouding the recovery.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Top Carmaker Shutdowns Hint More to Come in Covid-Zero China

China’s zero tolerance approach to Covid has idled Toyota Motor Corp. and Volkswagen AG factories — a troubling sign for global carmakers as the omicron variant begins to spread in the world’s biggest auto production hub.

An employee performs a quality check on an engine part at a Toyota Motor Corp. manufacturing facility. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: How Creative Financing Can Ease Supply Chain Strains

John Felix, managing director of White Oak Global Advisors, lays out the financing options that middle-market companies can deploy to reduce the stress on their supply chains and cash position.

How Creative Financing Can Ease Supply Chain Strains

New Railcar Design Aims to Reduce Industry's Emissions

Moving freight by rail is the most environmentally friendly mode of ground transport, with the average U.S. railroad moving one ton of freight 470 miles per gallon of fuel. A new type of railcar aims to further improve the industry’s footprint.

Greenbrier Unveils Innovative Freight Railcar

CEOs Fear Supply Chain Woes Will Cost Them Their Jobs

The C-suite is a bundle of nerves this winter. A survey shows that 72% of chief executive officers are worried about losing their jobs in 2022 because of business disruptions, tracking closely with the 94% of bosses who say their corporate models need to be overhauled within three years.

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Trucker Vaccine Rule Is Making Freight and Fruit Pricier

New rules requiring truckers to show proof of vaccination when crossing the Canada-U.S. border are cutting into shipping capacity and boosting the cost of hauling everything from broccoli to tomatoes.

A woman holds up her vaccination card. Photo: Bloomberg.

How Digital Trade Finance Enables Supply Chain Innovation for SMBs

With the many complexities and growing challenges in logistics and transportation, technology has become critical to the future of global trade finance, especially for small and medium-sized businesses.

LA Looters Raid Unattended Containers Amid Supply Chain Chaos

As many Americans worry about empty shelves and delayed packages, looters are taking advantage of the inflow of goods outside of the two southern California ports that are responsible for handling almost half of all U.S. imports.

CBS footage shows lines of looted packages stretching along a railway in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. Photo: @johnschreiber/ Twitter.

Tailoring Contract Lifecycle Management for CPG and Retail

Supply chain contracts aren't often a focus of operational efficiency or performance. This attitude has led to a litany of challenges so common that many companies consider them inevitable.

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Podcast | Can Manufacturers Prevent Another Microchip Shortage?

The global shortage of microchips has had a devastating impact on multiple industries, not least automotive manufacturers, who are expected to have lost some $210 billion in 2021 because they couldn’t get enough chips to drive the systems in their vehicles. But how did we get to this state of affairs?

A detail of a silicon wafer is shown on the production line. Photo: Getty.

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