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Consumers and Retailers Share Responsibility for Reducing Returns

One way consumers can help reduce returns (and growing landfills) is to shop more conscientiously by going into stores to test out products before making a repeat purchase online.

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Five Criteria for Choosing Your Next E-Commerce Delivery Partner

This guide helps you navigate the complexities of the choice, ensuring that your chosen partner not only aligns with your brand's goals, but also elevates your customers' experience.

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Cummins, Daimler and Paccar to Build Mississippi Plant for EV Truck Batteries

Trucking operators have been slow to invest in the vehicles because of concerns about cost and durability and a lack of battery-charging infrastructure to support trucks on long hauls.

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ONE Announces Order for 12 Methanol Dual-Fuel Containerships

The vessels are designed to flex between methanol and conventional diesel bunker fuel and will include technologies such as optimized hull form, waste heat recovery systems and bow windshield.

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Delivery Area Surcharges and Other Parcel Rate Hikes to Watch Out for in 2024

With the new year well underway, shippers can shift their attention to the general rate increases levied by parcel carriers, and focus on mitigating their impact on shipping costs.

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That Was Fast: High-Tech Component Inventories Shift From Shortage to Glut

For manufacturers that fretted over component shortages in 2021 and 2022, the current inventory glut is reminding them of that unsettling maxim: Be careful what you wish for.

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Ford Cutting Back F-150 Lighting Production Due to Lower EV Demand

The American car manufacturing giant said that it would be cutting back production at its Michigan Rouge Electric Vehicle Center to just one shift starting April 1, 2024.

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Samsung Heavy Industries Lands $235M Gas Carrier Deal

Samsung Heavy Industries said that the two very large ammonia carriers (VLACs) are scheduled to be delivered by the end of November 2027.

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Deep Freeze Forces U.S. LNG Exporters to Cancel, Delay Cargoes

The Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana canceled at least one scheduled shipment while other deliveries from Cameron and Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi facility in Texas were also delayed

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Experts Believe Cheap Generic Drugs Are Hurting the U.S. Supply Chain

Erin Fox, the associate chief pharmacy officer at the University of Utah, claimed that the most recent drug shortages in the U.S. are the “worst” in a decade.

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Podcast | Who’s Really Paying for Tariffs on Imports of Chinese Goods?

Tariffs on Chinese-made imports are a response to that nation’s unfair trade practices. But who’s footing the bill?

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How Generative AI Will Shape Contracting

Generative AI (GenAI) has the potential to transform the contracting practices of companies by significantly reducing the contract authoring, review times, and making negotiations of commercial agreements more effective.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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

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