The latest update of global freight data collected by the International Transport Forum at the OECD shows global trade volumes are slowing down.

Jeff Metersky, vice president of the Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning Practice at Chainalytics, explains how a new approach to benchmarking can help companies improve their forecast accuracy and why even small improvements make a big difference.

U.S. import volume in November, measured in twenty-foot-containers, is down 12.8 percent from October and another 15.2 percent from November of last year. The total number of TEUs imported for the month was 1,245,889. This is the lowest amount of U.S. imports for the month of November since 2003.

Tom Boike, vice president of supplier management with UPS, details UPS's journey toward the adoption of cloud technology, and what it means for users of international logistics services.

Best Buy recently removed e-mail support from its web site, a move the company said was designed to improve response and to give customers the kind of interactions they seek. The problem with this change is twofold.

The Panama Canal is due for at least one additional expansion, according to Alberto Aleman Zubieta, immediate past commissioner of the Panama Canal Authority.

An ever-improving supply chain infrastructure, a low-cost but increasingly skilled labor force and successful economic reform efforts combine to make Mexico an increasingly attractive target for cross-border industrial opportunities, according to new research by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). Mexico's proximity to the huge U.S. consumer market will always be a major competitive advantage but Mexico compares favorably to China, an industrial powerhouse that is becoming burdened by escalating manufacturing costs and lengthy shipping lead times.

Steady, albeit slow business growth. A U.S. economy that continues to expand, but at a moderate rate. Weak fundamentals in most markets in the first half. Those are some of the comments of chief executive officers of Class I railroads as they assess the outlook for 2013.

A so-called road map for paperless air cargo has been created by the Global Air Cargo Advisory Group (GACAG) to accelerate the industry's adoption of e-cargo in 2013.