By adapting their strategies, leveraging technology, and embracing innovative concepts like "keep it" returns and buy-online-return-in-store (BORIS) incentives, retailers can better manage the influx of returned items.

BP is the first oil company to directly halt its own shipping, after five major ocean carriers halted service through The Bab al-Mandab strait.

About 17,000 ships and 10% of global trade pass every year through The Bab al-Mandab strait, also known as the Gate of Tears, which is only 20 miles (32km) wide.

Maersk said December 14 that its vessel, Maersk Gibraltar, was targeted by a missile when traveling from Salalah, Oman to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The current level of spare capacity indicates that the end of a global manufacturing recession “is still some way off,” said GEP’s vice president of consulting, Todd Bremer.

The mean number of supply chain breaches increased from 3.29 incidents in 2022 to 4.16 incidents in 2023, a 26% rise.

Tesla has faced a backlash in the Nordic region from pension funds and labor unions over the company’s refusal to accept a collective bargaining agreement covering wages and other benefits.

A conversation about creating trust by adopting the right priorities for supply chain marketing, with Melissa Taylor, business consultant with RodgerAndMelissa.com, and Christina Daves, publicity strategist and founder of PR for Anyone.

Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said that the ship was targeted December 11 after its crew failed to respond to warnings.

It’s not too late to course-correct your data practices, but you have to take that first step sooner rather than later.