Africa’s Empty Holds
The wrong kind of growth In August 2026, African airlines added 14 percent more cargo capacity while demand grew 3 percent. Their cargo holds were 36.5 percent full, the emptiest of any region on earth,…
International Trade
The Feeder Fleet Split
A terminal built to move boxes between ships has had to create something it was never designed to need: a road gate. There was no exit for trucks, yet movements rose from about 100 a…
Liners Refuse to Yield
The Numbers Say Stay Away. The Ships Say Otherwise. July 28, 2026. A 16,592 TEU container vessel named Ane Maersk enters the Red Sea from the Mediterranean. It calls at Jeddah. Then, instead of retreating…
The Multifront Storm
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…
Riding the Storm: How El Nino Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Shipping
In early 2026, a major container line quietly adjusted its North Atlantic schedule. Transit times between Rotterdam and New York were padded by three days. The official explanation mentioned “operational optimization.” The actual reason was…
The Hormuz Supply Chain Plan B
Last year, the average freight rate from Shanghai to Rotterdam rose by 340 percent. The reason was not a pandemic, a war, or a natural disaster. It was the quiet escalation of tensions around a…
Before AI, Try the Checklist
In eight hospitals around the world, a simple experiment changed how we think about complexity. Surgical teams adopted a five-point checklist before operations. The result? Major complications dropped by 36 percent. Deaths fell by 47…
Super El Nino Tests Supply Chains
When monsoon storms shut down India's busiest container port for 48 hours in June 2026, the average delay per ship was not the story. The story was the 14,000 stranded containers that would take three…
The Hormuz Domino Effect
The Strait of Hormuz has always been the worlds most critical energy chokepoint. But in the current geopolitical climate, it has become something far larger: a structural threat that reaches into every corner of global…