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Foldable Shipping Containers? New Design Seen as Cure for Logjams

Few tools of the global economy have survived without major innovations as long as the shipping container. The supply ructions around the world are presenting an opportunity to test that incumbency.

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Biden Signed the $550 Billion Infrastructure Deal. Here's Who Gets the Money.

President Biden signed the $550 billion measure at a White House ceremony on Monday, after appointing a group of officials to guide the law’s enactment.

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Three Ways Service Providers Can Rethink Sustainability

By rethinking product lifecycle, reverse logistics and resource optimization, logistics companies and service providers can introduce sustainable change.

L.A., Long Beach to Delay Start of Fee for Lingering Containers

The $100-per-day fee for containers was put on hold until Nov. 22 because the ports have seen a “significant improvement in clearing import containers” in recent weeks.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Optimize Existing Labor to Meet Customer Demand

Many organizations have begun to invest in applications to make warehouse operations more efficient and deliver better customer service. But each of these technologies entails a unique set of complexities.

A warehouse worker scans inventory items as he picks an order. Photo: Bloomberg.

Georgia Port Pins Hopes on Rail to Move 80,000 Containers

At the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest U.S. trade gateways, containers are stacked up like colorful children’s building blocks stretching as far as the eye can see.

A truck carries a shipping container at the Georgia Port Authority Mason Mega Rail Terminal in Garden City, Georgia. Photo: Bloomberg.

Trucking Profits Soar as Their Customers Grapple With Shortages

While a global supply chain crisis is crimping sales for companies from Apple Inc. to Caterpillar Inc., transportation firms are riding an unprecedented profit boom.

A truck carrying a J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. intermodal container enters the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Rise of the Robots Speeds Up in Pandemic With U.S. Labor Scarce

American workers are hoping that the tight pandemic labor market will translate into better pay. It might just mean robots take their jobs instead.

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Zero-Carbon Shipping Plan Targets Container, Iron Ore Routes

The Clydebank Declaration on green shipping was unveiled Wednesday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and signed by 19 nations including the U.S., U.K., Japan, France and Germany.

A banner advertises the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.

Snarled Supply Chain Is Making U.S. Warehouse Shortage Worse

Fallout from the global supply chain crisis that’s clogging U.S. ports is pushing warehouses to capacity, and forcing logistics managers to scramble for space.

Rows of inventory in a distribution warehouse. Photo: Bloomberg.

Holiday Web Shoppers Face an Increase in Out-of-Stock Goods

U.S. online shoppers looking to stock up for the holidays are finding that virtual store shelves keep getting emptier.

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The Logistics-Tech Company Keeping Pfizer's Vaccine Unimaginably Cold

Controlant, a provider of innovative technology for monitoring the distribution of temperature-sensitive vaccines and other items in the cold chain, takes on COVID-19.

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sit in a freezer. Photo: Bloomberg.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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