Supply chain

New online sales events such as Amazon's Prime Day increase demand for last-mile capacity.

Shifting focus from acquisitions to profit-building, XPO works to convince investors it will succeed in the long-haul.

Indian exports are rebounding from a slide that lasted more than year.

Representatives of the railroad industry and labor unions — many of whom actively opposed the group’s formation in the first place, but nevertheless landed seats at the table — took little time before questioning and criticizing the very existence of the new Port Performance Freight Statistics Working Group.

Economic indicator shows no sign of inventory destocking in May.

Damco has established three new global hubs to expand its Hub-in-Transit program.

The use of shore power is being studied to supplement the set-up of emission control areas at China's main commercial shipping centers.

The European Shippers Council today claimed container lines' recent commitments to the European Commission over general rate increase announcements “does not solve the price-fixing problem.”

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics reaches settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending an investigation into anti-competitive practices.

Established logistics companies and brokers could partner with digital start-ups to speed the "evolution" of technology demanded by shippers, the CEO of Echo Global Logistics says.

U.S. containerized imports should slightly rise over the second half of 2016.

Japanese container trade volume will slip slightly in fiscal 2016 for the third straight year.

Shippers using India’s top port are furious with new fees related to the collection and transmission of verified gross mass data.

Limited resources continue to make life difficult for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The European Commission has begun an investigation into whether tax breaks for French and Belgian ports breach EU state aid rules.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has refocused a rule on transportation practices that could pose a threat to food safety, bringing the focus back to risk.

Container lines’ latest investments in their reefer business range from purchasing new equipment and implementing tracking, refrigeration and controlled atmosphere technology to introducing new routes and services.

Innovation in the cold chain industry, especially real-time tracking and tracing, lags other industries, a logistics director says.

A league of U.S. lawmakers are not content with the roughly 4 percent of import containers screened under the current system.

“The commitments aim to increase price transparency for customers and to reduce the likelihood of coordinating prices,” the European Commission said.

Is e-commerce new business or just products being ordered and distributed via new channels?

There is plenty of innovation to be found on the technology side of logistics, and funding is up sharply this year.

Waste caused by poor infrastructure is thought to cost India around $45 billion per year, or 4.3 percent of GDP, according to McKinsey & Company.

Russian container terminals and exporters didn’t experience any disruption tied to the new SOLAS container weight rule.

APM Terminals joined those in the industry reporting little disruption from the SOLAS rule.

With next month’s summer Olympics a disaster long before the torch is lit, and with political and economic upheaval swirling, South America’s biggest economy is in the midst of one of its deepest recessions.

Investment continues to pour into Japan’s undersupplied warehouse sector.

Maersk Line employs remote container management to check the status of refrigerated containers.

Shipper frustration over what they see as dubious charges from some terminals, liners and forwarders is intensifying.

It was “business as usual” at container terminals in India's major port complexes on Friday.

Rents for multitenant distribution center space in 2015 grew faster than those of any other property type.

“We feel it is very important that we not only have the development of the industrial zones, but we have also been cooperating in the development of the infrastructure that surrounds the SEZ.”

A nervous container business is bracing for the new VGM regulations.

Cargo agents in China are being squeezed from both sides as box weighing charges fall in their laps.

The state of U.S. freight growth in 2016 and perhaps next year hangs on inventories.

U.S. containerized poultry exports are set for a recovery after a miserable 2015.

The impact of the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union is expected to be muted.

Urgent need for modern warehousing space in Japan as e-commerce demand rises.

Amazon now may be the world's largest 3PL, especially for small shippers, supply chain consultant Adrian Gonzalez tells SMC3 Connections 2016.

Can the notoriously complicated, not to mention technologically hidebound, freight forwarding industry be turned into a streamlined, digitally driven paragon of efficiency?