Producers typically rely on regular airline services to ferry mined metal from remote operations to specialist plants.

COVID-19 is about to put the global trading system through its most dramatic stress-test since World War II, with supply lines for essential food and medical goods entering a critical phase as the pandemic peaks in the U.S. and Europe.

Truckers hauling food are facing delays across the globe in the latest disruption to supply chains snarled by the coronavirus pandemic.

In the rush to reassure, administrations have stumbled in the rollout of measures, leaving companies from catering to construction confused and increasingly anxious about accessing aid.

As millions of people across Europe and the U.S. stay home to avoid the coronavirus, thousands of workers in the energy industry must remain at their posts.

A shipping container shortage that’s left everything from Thai curry to Canadian peas idling in ports may be about to get a whole lot worse as China steps up its precautions on incoming vessels.

The bloc’s environment commissioner calls textiles the “new plastic” when it comes to trash.

At least five workers at Amazon warehouses in Europe have contracted the coronavirus, a sobering development for a company already struggling to deal with a spike in orders from customers hunkering down at home.

The world is on course to record its warmest winter ever, unsettling global crop production and raising the risk of food inflation.

The British spend more time than just about any developed nation for the same economic benefit.