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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…
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…
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….
Amazon Is Coming for Your Parcel: Why FedEx and UPS Should Be Worried: Amazon is aggressively expanding its own delivery network to absorb the parcel volumes FedEx and UPS are shedding at a moment when fuel surcharges are hammering shippers.
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…
There is an inconvenient truth hiding behind every green packaging announcement, every carbon offset programme, and every sustainability report published by a logistics company. The truth is this: none of it is keeping pace with…
Diesel is the single most exposed fuel in the global supply chain, and disruptions are converging. Photo: Pexels. Supply chain professionals have learned to watch semiconductors. A shortage of microchips can shut down an automotive…
RFID is no longer just a barcode replacement. It is becoming a strategic supply chain technology. Photo: Pexels. In 2003, Walmart told its top 100 suppliers to put RFID tags on every pallet shipped to…
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…