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According to the maritime analysts at Drewry, port bottlenecks in several regions of the globe are disrupting trade, with Maersk recently highlighting what it says has been 15 years of underinvestment ...

A huge fire that destroyed a temperature-controlled distribution center near Las Angeles managed by giant 3PL Lineage Logistics in June has spawned a lawsuit by Lineage against tw ...

It’s been tough times in the US freight sector for more than two years, but carriers showed mostly up results in August, according to the Cass Freight Report for the month released this week. Supply ...

Last week, we published our annual column on The Labor (Day) Supply Chain 2026, full of facts about US labor, including unionization rates, the number of workers in manufacturing and warehousing and ...

Mr. Gilmore serves as Chief Editor of Supply Chain Digest. He has a 15-year career in the supply chain industry, most recently serving as Sr. Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for RedPrairie.

This week, I am again thinking about "the ASN," otherwise known as the Advance Ship Notice or the EDI 856 transaction. To me, the ASN is one of the definitive "best practices" of an integrated supply ...

Our Annual Review on the State of Labor in the Supply Chain Unionization Rises a Bit in 2025 What's Happening with Blue Collar Wages?

Agentic AI is reshaping the supply chain planning landscape, but hype and “agent washing” are creating real risks for organizations under pressure to deliver results, according to Gartner, Inc., a ...

Among respondents with a strong desire to automate (blue bars in the chart below), the top selection criteria was “system flexibility." ...

At the time, Stellantis’s US affiliate paid more than $26 million and granted substantial price increases to avoid parts not being shipped, the lawsuit said.

China’s overall trade surplus soared to a record $1.1 trillion in 2025, rising above the trillion dollar level for the first time. How did that happen in year of hefty (if constantly changing) tariffs ...