Contract Logistics (SCM)

The transportation environment has remained challenging through much of 2021, with everything from ocean container shortages to port congestion to tight trucking capacity making life difficult for companies shipping outbound freight and receiving inbound goods. The situation may not ease much during the fourth quarter of the year, when the...

In May, a major Chinese port shut down its operations for 20-days due to a COVID-19 outbreak among its dock workers. That in turn caused an even longer aftershock. Situated about 50 miles north of Hong Kong, the Port of Yantian handles enough goods to fill 36,000, 20-foot tractor trailers...

October Update Brazil's Petrobras sees fuel demand that could affect future logistics prices Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras said October 18th, it has received "atypical demand" for fuel supplies in November that surpasses its production capacity. The company has been operating its refineries with a capacity factor of 90% in...

Clarks® Shoes’ story began almost 200 years ago, when Cyrus and James Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off-cuts. Groundbreaking at the time, this combination of invention and craftsmanship has remained at the heart of the company’s mission ever since. Even today, every pair of Clarks’ shoes begins with advanced...

Following a global pause in cruise operations last March, cruise lines resumed sailing in parts of Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific by midyear. There were over 200 sailings through the end of the year, with the success of these trips demonstrating that the “new protocols are working as designed—to...

Companies prepare for the summer shipping season in different ways depending on current customer demands, the transportation environment, and other outside factors. With the pandemic continuing to create complexities for supply chains around the globe—from container shortages to port congestion to high consumer demand—Home Depot is one organization that’s taking...

Defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, resilience has become a core mission for companies across most industries right now. After putting businesses through a battery of strategic-resilience tests in 2020, the pandemic continues to place new pressures on many organizations in 2021. “The global pandemic has put...

It’s not often that you see two complete airplanes being loaded onto a single cargo aircraft and sent off on an overseas flight, but that’s exactly what happened when DB Schenker Americas recently shipped two complete private jets to Miami in record time. Jumping into gear when a global aerospace...

Major trading partners, the U.S. and Canada share a border where billions of dollars in goods and services are traded annually. In 2019, U.S. goods and services trade with Canada reached about $718.4 billion—including $360.4 billion in exports (from Canada) and $358 billion in imports (to Canada). As the U.S.’...

Cargo theft is on the rise, and the thieves aren’t just interested in high-value goods anymore. According to USA Today, cargo thefts of paper goods, personal protective equipment (PPE), and food increased last year as the black market for such items flourished during COVID-19. It says the thieves have stolen...