The answer is yes: Customers are increasingly demonstrating a commitment to sustainable shipping, even if that means waiting a bit longer for their orders to arrive, says TJ Roberts. vice president of enterprise accounts with Sifted.

The freezes follow similar moves by a string of cities in the Inland Empire, the U.S.’s major warehousing and logistics mecca that stretches east and south of Los Angeles.

After years of pandemic-driven port congestion, supply chain bottlenecks and limited freight capacity, the Russian invasion of Ukraine turned what was already a tight fuel market into an energy crisis.

The focus by companies on fulfilling basic orders during the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed a more insidious problem to come to a head: the influx of gray-market products into the supply chain.

To ensure that they're meeting goals for sustainability and carbon tracking, shippers need to have an "open ecosystem" that enables data transformation among all supply chain partners, says Mike Reed, chief product officer with Redwood Logistics.

Supply chains consume resources on a large scale, making decarbonization an enormous priority.

If the Commission issues an emergency order, common carriers and marine terminal operators would be required to share directly with relevant shippers, rail carriers, or motor carriers information relating to cargo throughput and availability.

Will the Biden Administration meet its goal for electric vehicle production in the U.S.? Don’t count on it.

Federal regulation of pharmaceuticals and medical devices are among the unique challenges that logistics providers face in the healthcare supply chain, says Andrew Wang, director of healthcare at Locus Robotics.

While it may seem that the solution to the truck driver shortage is simply to recruit more drivers, this overly simplified tactic may be contributing to the problem.