A strike by 45,000 dockworkers across East and Gulf Coast ports has shut down major shipping hubs, idling thousands of truckers and threatening to cost the U.S. economy billions.
The e-commerce boom has driven third-party logistics providers to heavily invest in automated fulfillment. Shippers have embraced the change, making e-commerce a leading growth driver across all ...
The report’s benchmark reading, the PMI, at 47.2 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), matched August. ISM added that the PMI has not seen growth in 22 of the last 23 months, with the overall ...
Procurement is transforming faster than ever. Cost, quality, and speed still matter. But now procurement managers are under pressure from one end of the supply chain to the other, as well as from ...
The foreign-trade zone program was designed to strike a balance between transparency and confidentiality—and there are now additional ways to leverage the program to further enhance U.S. economic ...
Newsroom Notes reached out to a trio of economists to get their respective takes on the rate cut and what it could mean for freight transportation and logistics.