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Automation, Shortages: These Are the Forces Disrupting Trucking

When everything's out of your company’s control, there’s one thing you can control: the experience you give your customers. These industry trends are opportunities to harness.

Diesel-Tax Holidays Are Meant to Help Truckers — But They're Not Celebrating

The move by some states to soothe the sting of soaring fuel prices by temporarily suspending diesel fuel taxes has some unlikely opponents: truckers, the very people it’s supposed to help.

Trucks refuel at a gas station. Photo: Getty Images.

Five Ways to Improve Supply Chain Continuity Planning

Business continuity plans with key suppliers help to mitigate supply chain risk and fluctuations in consumer demand.

Close up of a finger touching a tablet device. Photo: Shutterstock.

How Air Cargo's Recovery Hinges on Passenger Travel

A rollercoaster winter for global logistics has clouded any glimmer of “normalcy” for the airline and air cargo industry, leaving companies to question if and when operations will recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Passengers in an airport lounge watch a plane fly off at dusk. Photo: Shutterstock.

Amazon Halts Work on San Francisco Depot After City Moratorium

Amazon has stopped work on a new warehouse in San Francisco after the city’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to implement a moratorium on new parcel delivery services there.

Boxes are dispatched along a conveyor at an Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center. Photo: Bloomberg.

Ship Stuck Near D.C. Signals East Coast Ports’ Rush to Expand

The $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal doubled its capacity in 2016, allowing the world’s largest cargo ships to sail more easily to America’s East Coast from Asia. Now, one of those giant vessels has been stuck near the U.S. capital for more than a week.

The Ever Forward container ship in the Chesapeake Bay after it ran aground near Baltimore in Pasadena, Maryland, on March 16. Photo: Bloomberg.

Where Are the Tech Companies in Biden's Supply Chain Initiative?

The Biden administration’s launch last week of its Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) initiative has left a number of supply chain data experts scratching their heads.

An employee views information on a digital tablet. Photo: Mungkhood Studio/ Canva.

Canadian Pacific Rail Halts Operations After Labor Talks Fail

One of Canada’s largest railways is winding down operations after failing to reach a labor deal with unionized workers.

A Canadian Pacific Railway train leaves Hardisty, Alberta, Canada. Photo: Bloomberg.

Evergreen Hires Firm That Saved the Day at Suez to Free Ship

Evergreen Marine Corp. has hired the company that freed the giant container ship Ever Given last year when it ran aground for almost a week, disrupting global trade for months, to do the same with its vessel stranded near the U.S. capital.

The Ever Given container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. Photo: Bloomberg.

Port of Los Angeles Sees Record Volume in February

Cargo moving through the Port of Los Angeles jumped 7.3% in February, representing back-to-back record months to begin 2022.

An aerial view of Pier 400 at the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Port of Los Angeles.

White House Pushes Supply Chain Operators to Share Data

An initiative launched this week is President Biden’s latest effort to address supply chain bottlenecks that stretch across the U.S.

Dockworkers move cargo on a container terminal. Photo: Port of Los Angeles.

The World’s Cargo Ships Are Sailing Into Worse Climate Risks: Report

Dangerous, expensive disruptions to shipping and many of the world’s roughly 3,700 ports are on the rise along with global temperatures. These events will increasingly threaten the sea routes that convey 80% of traded goods by volume, according to an analysis by Environmental Defense Fund.

Barges docked on the Mississippi River as Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Destrehan, Louisiana. Photo: Bloomberg.

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