Supply Chain Blog
America did everything the reshoring playbook demanded. It tripled annual manufacturing investment, leaned hard on tariffs, and pushed executives to rethink supply chains built around cheap Asian labor. Then came the punchline: in 2025, U.S….
When a 3PL goes dark, the goods stop moving. In early August, Valve told European customers who had bought its Steam hardware that their names, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses had been stolen….
A global petrochemical company spent millions on a supply chain control tower. The screens lit up with alerts the moment anything moved. When the first major disruption hit, the technology fired notifications within minutes. Then…
In 2016, one of the most famous AI researchers in the world stood on a stage in Toronto and told a room full of doctors to stop training new radiologists. Within five years, he promised,…
Your forwarder books the space, issues the bill of lading, and files the export paperwork. It is the most trusted middleman in your supply chain. And right now, US authorities are investigating one of the…
During the worst of the container boom, Maersk did the opposite of every other carrier. While rivals pushed emergency surcharges and spot rates climbed toward record highs, the Danish line held its average freight rates…
Seven Ships, One Strategy Seven of the largest container ships afloat crossed the Bab el Mandeb strait in August with their location transponders switched off. In the trade these are called dark transits: a vessel…
One man sat on both sides of the logistics counter. As the controlling owner of Kuehne + Nagel, Klaus-Michael Kuehne ran the world’s largest sea and air freight forwarder, the middleman that books space on…
A shipment was due in Rotterdam on a Tuesday afternoon. The carrier’s system said so, with a precise time: 14:00. The forwarder booked the truck for 13:30, reserved the warehouse slot, and released the container…