If nearshoring and regional strategies are to work properly, companies need to have resilient and flexible supply chains, says Matt Schroeder, president of WSI/Kase.

In decades past, manufacturers fled the U.S. for Asia in search of lower production expense. But sourcing decisions today are a lot more complicated than that.

Critical minerals have become a key point of leverage for China as it flexed its muscles in tariff negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The alarming conclusion is that scientists and government planners have relied on mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are.

For the container industry, war-risk surcharges are no longer exceptional line items that appear and disappear with individual conflicts. 

What container shippers want most today is service stability. But global forces are making that wish increasingly tough to grant.

President Donald Trump said on March 3 that the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation would offer insurance “at a very reasonable price."

The two leaders also agreed to expand cooperation in new areas of growth, such as shipbuilding, nuclear power, supply chain and artificial intelligence.

After years of reacting to disruption, leaders are shifting their focus away from reinvention, and back toward discipline and accountability in how work gets done.

Do not ignore the potential for your business to leverage upside as a consequence of an otherwise difficult geopolitical event, warns Gartner's David Gonzalez.