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Maersk Sells Last Major Energy Asset as It Focuses on Logistics

Denmark’s biggest company outlined in 2016 a historic strategic shift to break up its century-old conglomerate structure and sell all its four big energy assets.

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Retail Consumer Data: The Key to Personalization, or Privacy Violation?

Retailers strive to personalize the shopping experience, especially for online purchases. At what point, though, does that effort cross the line and become an invasion of the consumer’s privacy?

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Watch: Four Industry Disrupters Impacting Logistics

Karen Jones, executive vice president and chief marketing officer with Ryder, discusses advanced vehicle technology, accelerating demand for e-commerce, asset-sharing for commercial vehicles, and digital technologies.

Karen Jones

Traders Marshal a Fleet of Supertankers to Haul U.S. Oil to Europe

Big importers like China and India have been picking up larger volumes as western buyers abandoned the cargoes due to sanctions on Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.

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Boeing and Airbus Intensify Search for Skilled Talent in India

Companies have for decades looked to India, home to about 40% of so-called global capability centers that provide tech, engineering and I.T. support,

Boeing’s booth at the Aero India 2023 show in Bengaluru on February 14. Photo: Bloomberg

U.S. Toxic Chemical Rules Pit Economic Growth Against Public Health

Many of the substances in question are important to industries that President Biden has backed through other policies intended to bolster global competitiveness and national security.

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EVs Finally Land at North America’s Biggest Machinery Conference

Multiple machinery companies at the event said the main reason for the slow uptake in the U.S. is the lack of incentives like those offered in Europe.

A John Deere 145 X-Tier electric excavator. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg

Germany Forms Alliance to Change EU's Planned Combustion Engine Ban

The ICE ban, the EU's main tool to speed up Europe's shift to electric vehicles, was put on hold earlier this month after last-minute opposition from Germany.

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Watch: What Goes Around, Comes Around: Circularity in the Supply Chain

Supply chain circularity involves procurement, transportation management, customer tracking and reverse logistics, says Kristin Toth, president and chief operating officer of Fernish.

Kristin Toth

Samsung to Invest in South Korea Mega Chip-Making Plan

Semiconductors, which power everything from mobile phones to military hardware, are at the center of a bitter dispute between the U.S. and China.

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Biden-Harris Administration Opens Applications for Program to Build EV Charging

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program will provide $2.5 billion over five years.

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Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Faces Probe Over Tarriff-Avoiding Practices

South African groups say Shein deliberately sends its goods in small packages of lesser value to reduce import duties aimed at protecting local businesses.

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