Maersk said that it has added about 6% more vessel capacity to its schedule to keep the flow of trade moving, further adding to the company’s operational costs.

An industry expert from a Californian freight forwarding company said they anticipate organizations will have to deal with equipment shortages due to vessels being rerouted away from the Red Sea.

Uber and Lyft drivers are holding daylong strikes in Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Miami, Orlando, Austin, Newark and several other cities.

Dimerco said that ocean shippers in the APAC region should anticipate rates to increase for vessels going to the U.S. and Europe.

CDL 1000 founder Andrew Sobko said that this acquisition, as well as the company’s purchase of Hickory Transportation Services in November, will allow the organization to expand its services nationwide.

The British Retail Consortium said that it had noticed a “temporary disruption” to some black tea lines, while an industry source suggested that some flavored lines had been delayed.

Balbir Singh Dhillon, the head of Audi India, said that the Red Sea situation is impacting the German carmaker’s deliveries to customers in India.

C.H. Robinson said that touchless appointments allow some users to save up to 7.4 hours on average in terms of being able to deliver products to market.