This is the question that I am asked on a daily basis. The issue is very complex, so I usually quip with a surprising response, “They’ve always had issues, but…
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In any other year, expectations of strong sales for the upcoming holiday shopping season would be the fulfillment of a dream for retailers. Instead, it’s shaping up to be something…
Carriers have a clear preference in terms of where they are trying to position themselves in the U.S. and it illustrates just how unbalanced transportation capacity continues to be. Loads…
Retailers are loading up on goods for the holiday season in a strong show of confidence in consumer demand even as the Delta variant and supply-chain disruptions add uncertainty to…
The number of container ships at anchor or drifting in San Pedro Bay off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has now blown through all previous records and…
Amazon.com Inc. plans to open several large physical retail locations in the U.S. that will operate akin to department stores, a step to help the tech company extend its reach…
It’s only mid-August — the early days of peak shipping season — but the record for container ships anchored off California is already on the verge of being broken. …
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed its version of a $1 trillion infrastructure funding package that provides $550 billion in new monies. The passage of the bipartisan legislation, which was…
The number of available loads on the spot truckload freight market climbed 0.3% during the week ending August 1, according to DAT Freight & Analytics, operator of the industry’s largest…
Retailers were already facing rapid change before Covid-19 struck. But the pandemic prompted a surge in e-commerce that is overwhelming retail supply chains. Between March and September 2020, US online…