Women who sorted resin for the Somaliland supplier claimed that they would work 12-hour days, six days a week, in facilities with no toilets or running water. 

Kroger plans to use Ocado's robotic picking arms to move groceries off of nearby shelves into bags for online customer orders.

The overhaul will take years to take root, and will require support from customers who’ve been burned by Boeing’s delays and quality lapses.

The program is designed to give women- and minority-owned small businesses the chance to learn the skills needed to work and grow within the maritime industry. 

John Lewis stores will charge £10.95 ($14.15) to fix small rips and tears, £28.50 for a broken zipper on items like cushion covers, and £99.95 to restore a handbag.

Both FedEx and UPS have warned customers to expect delays on package deliveries originally slated for the date of CrowdStrike's outage on July 19. 

After colliding with the Hafnia Nile, the Ceres I appears to have then switched off its transponder for more than a day.

Many port operations were disrupted, and air freight was hit the hardest, with a recovery period of the complex air cargo network predicted to last days or weeks.

The company pegged the incident to “a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” and said the outage wasn’t down to a cyberattack or security breach.

The firm with $4 billion of assets is keen to branch out from its Middle East base to play a larger global role as economic growth expands demand for shipping.