A lithium producer for carmakers including BMW AG and Tesla Inc. is beginning work to assess battery metals projects in Xinjiang, deepening links between electric vehicle supply chains and a region at the heart of human-rights allegations against China.

South Korea’s biggest shipping company plans to invest 15 trillion won ($11.4 billion) by 2026 on new ships and terminals to strengthen its competitiveness and comply with tighter environmental regulations.

As the aerospace world gathers in southern England next week for the first major commercial show since 2019, the stakes are particularly high for one half of the global planemaking duopoly.

The emergence of e-commerce for ordering parts has made the experience as easy as buying a book or toaster on Amazon.com, enabling supply chain managers, product designers, engineers and others to carry out the process quickly and on demand.

In recent years, consumers have become increasingly interested in shopping sustainably. With that increasing interest has come a lot of confusion — 64% of Americans are willing to pay more for sustainable products, but 26% don’t know how to identify them.

More than half of supply chain executives don’t expect a "return to normal" until the first half of 2024 or beyond, according to a new survey.

The White House is monitoring labor talks in the logistics industry as unions representing 115,000 rail workers and 22,000 West Coast dockworkers negotiate fresh contracts, but won’t get directly involved in either bargaining process now, its supply chain envoy said.

A handful of scientists and the companies they founded are building factories to produce next-generation battery cells, allowing carmakers to begin road testing the technologies and determine whether they are safe and reliable.

Developers of battery metals projects can win support from the U.S. government as it seeks to counter the dominance of China in clean-technology supply chains.