Although the coalition's efforts were largely successful in suppressing piracy over the last decade, renewed global instability has allowed the threat to reemerge.

Transportation Under Pressure applies the Born at the Dock standard to a transportation market exposed to volatile fuel prices, tightening carrier capacity, regulatory change, labor constraints, and regional disruption. Its central argument is that shippers cannot control the next external shock, but they can reduce the internal exposure that determines whether that shock becomes a manageable cost increase or an operational crisis. 

Supply chains are under constant pressure from disruption, rising costs and increasing service expectations—yet decisions are still made across fragmented systems and functional siloes. Even with heavy investments in digitalization and AI, many organizations remain stuck in reactive execution.

The ocean carrier brought in $15.8 billion in revenue in Q2, up from $13.1 billion a year earlier, while operating profit nearly doubled year-over-year to $1.6 billion.

The fund will be set up as a financing agreement that pre-funds the purchase of essential components, providing suppliers with the capital they need to stockpile parts.

If Iran were to join the NDB, it would become eligible for financing for a range of infrastructure projects across transportation, sanitation and urban development.

The investment is intended for projects including data centers and compute power, renewable power, energy storage, natural gas and critical minerals.

The IEA now expects the global oil market to run a deficit of 1.8 million barrels per day in the third quarter, more than double its estimate from just a month ago.

Around 113 vessels were waiting to transit the Panama Canal as of August 3, compared to just 40 vessels that were in line in early January.