Supply Chain Blog
A container ship just sailed from South Korea to Rotterdam through the Arctic. On the same day, barge traffic on the Rhine River, Europe’s busiest inland waterway, ground to a near halt because there was…
Last month, Nissin Foods announced something quietly remarkable. The company behind Cup Noodles expects significantly higher fill rates this year, not because it built new factories or hired more planners. It credited an AI-powered demand…
If you have ever changed the battery in a child’s toy, a TV remote, or a hearing aid in Europe, there is a strong chance you were holding a Varta. In 2022 alone, the company…
In early July, a senior logistics manager at a Rotterdam-based freight forwarder opened her morning dashboard and found three red alerts. A Saudi tanker had been struck by a Houthi drone in the Red Sea….
When a Canadian logistics director wakes up to find that 25 percent of his trucking fleet is suddenly stuck at the Ambassador Bridge because of a retaliatory tariff hold, he does not have time to…
Supply chain leaders have spent over ten billion dollars on AI platforms, digital twins, and control towers in the past three years alone. Yet when a container ship blocks the Suez Canal, a pandemic shuts…
ord Motor Company recently hired 350 veteran engineers (some former employees, others drawn from suppliers) after artificial intelligence and automated quality systems failed to deliver the expected results. The company calls them “gray beard” engineers,…
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has published its long awaited Strait of Hormuz evacuation plan, and the response from commercial shipping has been immediate. After weeks of consultation with Iranian and Omani authorities, the IMO…
On 17 June 2026, logistics operators across multiple continents found themselves staring at login error screens instead of shipment data. CargoWise, the flagship platform of WiseTech Global, had gone dark. The cause, according to WiseTech,…