In packaged goods supply chains, some of the biggest threats to margin hide in everyday exceptions—repacking, relabeling, retailer-specific requirements, special handling, short-notice changes, and customer requests that require operational workarounds.

CK Hutchison is alleging that Panama violated an investment protection treaty as part of what the company described as a "state attack campaign." 

Chinese industrial parks, ports and airports are springing up all over, from Saudi Arabia and Hungary to Brazil and Indonesia.

Technology is enabling businesses to model different scenarios, respond faster to disruption and make more informed decisions.

Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks on each other’s commercial ships and ports in the Black Sea area, raising concerns about global grain supplies.

The cargo visibility program will need data-privacy protections to succeed, experts warn.

Whether a decision can be undone is the line small importers need to draw before letting an AI agent near their sourcing.

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

A spokesperson for the Houthis said on social media on August 17 that the group had struck a Saudi military vessel and four escort ships at Yemen's Port of Mokha.

The USDA reported in February that there were an estimated 86.2 million heads of cattle in the U.S. to start the year, marking the lowest level the country has seen in 75 years.