<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Responsibility for the late deliveries of Christmas gift parcels lies squarely with the online retailers. How the industry can prevent it from happening again.</p></div>

Responsibility for the late deliveries of Christmas gift parcels lies squarely with the online retailers. How the industry can prevent it from happening again.

<div><p>The 2013 Christmas shopping season ended badly for many parties. Consumers, e-tailers and parcel carriers all wrestled with a late rush in orders that overwhelmed the system. But multiple media outlets — ABC, CBS and NBC chief among them — got it wrong in reporting, without proper facts, that UPS and FedEx were responsible for, in essence, ruining the Christmas for a multitude of families. False reporting was so widespread that even The Wall Street Journal fell for it and misplaced responsibility for those late deliveries.</p><p>The media overlooked the facts. Because the three parcel delivery outlets — UPS, FedEx and...

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>The UP routing was initially noticed by freight forwarders and drayage providers in the Chicago area who are increasingly going to UP’s Global IV terminal in Joliet instead of BNSF’s Logistics Park Chicago to retrieve Maersk containers.</p></div>

The UP routing was initially noticed by freight forwarders and drayage providers in the Chicago area who are increasingly going to UP’s Global IV terminal in Joliet instead of BNSF’s Logistics Park Chicago to retrieve Maersk containers.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>The VSA shakeup follows the French carrier implementing Suez Canal transits for its Epic service sailings, a switchover Cosco continues to remain wary of, sources say, amid the persistent volatile operational environment.</p></div>

The VSA shakeup follows the French carrier implementing Suez Canal transits for its Epic service sailings, a switchover Cosco continues to remain wary of, sources say, amid the persistent volatile operational environment.

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Cosco pulls vessels from CMA CGM's India-Europe loop as Suez rotation returns

<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Just three days after vessels began exiting the Strait of Hormuz, the International Maritime Organization has paused the initiative and is demanding further clarity from the US and Iran over safety guarantees. </p></div>

Just three days after vessels began exiting the Strait of Hormuz, the International Maritime Organization has paused the initiative and is demanding further clarity from the US and Iran over safety guarantees.

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Latest ship attack puts IMO’s Persian Gulf evacuation plan on hold

<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>SC Ports said an uncertain trade outlook in the back half of 2026 coupled with the need to lower costs drove the decision to shutter the terminal for a “short-term pause.”</p></div>

SC Ports said an uncertain trade outlook in the back half of 2026 coupled with the need to lower costs drove the decision to shutter the terminal for a “short-term pause.”

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Charleston’s Leatherman terminal to temporarily halt ship operations by August

<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>But the terminal’s COO says that continued extreme temperatures forecast for the coming days would keep landside operations under pressure.</p></div>

But the terminal’s COO says that continued extreme temperatures forecast for the coming days would keep landside operations under pressure.

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