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For Faster Deliveries, Don't Neglect the Middle Mile

The middle mile is becoming the heart of multichannel strategies.

Driving Value in Your Supply Chain With Robotics and Automation

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Ottawa Declares Emergency After Trucker Protests Spin ‘Out of Control’

Canada’s capital city remained under a state of emergency Monday as police tried to rein in protests against vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions.

Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Bloomberg.

Amazon Raises Prime Membership Amid Supply Chain Bottlenecks

Amazon.com Inc. is raising the annual fee for its Prime subscription service in the U.S. by $20 to $139, the first such increase since 2018.

A truck drives through an Amazon delivery station in Kearny, New Jersey. Photo: Bloomberg.

Vaccine Protest Snarls Canada-U.S. Border Crossing for Fifth Day

Two lanes of traffic have reopened at one of Canada’s busiest border crossings five days after a group of vehicles blocked the highway to protest vaccine mandates for truckers.

Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest against vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario. Photo: Bloomberg.

UPS CEO Solves E-Commerce Puzzle With Profit That Wows Investors

United Parcel Service Inc.’s CEO Carol Tome seems to have cracked the e-commerce conundrum.

An employee loads packages into a shipping container at a United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) Worldport facility in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo: Bloomberg.

Get Ready for More Freight Bottlenecks During Chinese New Year and Beyond

DHL is projecting an 88% decrease from typical volumes of China-U.S. freight during the first week of the Chinese New Year, which begins February 1.

Red lanterns are illuminated at night for the Lunar New Year. Photo: Pexels.

Trucker Protest Strands Beef Shipments at U.S.-Canada Border

Protesters who are rallying against vaccine mandates are holding up shipments of Canadian beef to the U.S.

Commercial trucks and passenger vehicles drive across Ambassador Bridge on the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ontario. The bridge connects Windsor to Detroit and facilitates over 30% of all Canada-U.S. road trade. Photo: Bloomberg.

Truckers Protesting Vaccine Rule Stay Put in Canada’s Capital

Raucous protests in Canada’s capital continued Sunday over trucker vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 health restrictions, but the crowd thinned from its height a day earlier after drawing military and political rebukes for poor behavior.

Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Bloomberg.

Sleepy Truckers Get Forgotten in Supply Chain Crisis

President Biden’s sweeping infrastructure law was supposed to ease problems for the trucking industry and relieve supply chain woes, but the law overlooked a vital necessity for truckers: Parking.

Photo: Sergey Lavrentev/ Canva.

Can a Self-Driving 40-Ton Truck Be Safe? Developers Say Yes

Shipping companies and software developers are experimenting with self-driving trucks as a way to solve a driver shortage worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing fire from safety advocates who call the technology a risk to motorists.

A truck carrying a J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. intermodal container enters the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Nightmare Vaccine Logistics Are Prolonging the Global Pandemic

Lack of supply was the biggest threat initially to the vaccination programs of developing nations. Now, it’s logistics.

A worker moves a case into a temperature-controlled vaccine shipping container. Photo: Bloomberg.

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