The European Union (EU) is preparing a major overhaul of its Customs regulations with freight forwarding, logistics, and Customs service’s body, CLECAT, urging that reform consider “the realities of modern supply chains, which involve multiple parties.”

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than just a “buzzword” – it is being integrated into many of the tools used by the supply chain and logistics industry today. AI has become such a hot topic and is considered vital to the future of the industry's technologies because it delivers a range of valuable benefits.

Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero heralded the twentieth anniversary of the Port’s Green Port program which has resulted in major reductions in truck, cargo-handling equipment, and ship emissions that were achieved at the same time as record container volume growth.

The prospect of a significant increase in tariffs on goods imported into the U.S from China could have the effect of boosting air cargo, according to a senior industry executive.

The recently proposed Bi-Partisan Ships for America Act or Ships Act could lead to a major new shipbuilding mobilization in the United States, if Congress moves expeditiously to enact the measure and ensures sufficient funding, according to Charles Papavizas, a maritime attorney with the firm of Winston and Strawn based in Washington, D.C.

Transport infrastructure mega-projects invariably capture the headlines, given their monumental size, scale and cost and more so when they are announced as being ultra-innovative, even revolutionary in design and make full use of emerging and disruptive technologies, such as AI and robotics.

Avocado fervor could face some challenges in 2025 but exports likely to continue to grow.

Clearing skies with a chance of showers. Businesses can look forward to a gradually improving operating environment in 2025, thanks to lower interest rates, moderating inflation, and steady if unspectacular growth in the nation’s overall economic activity.

The scenes could have well been from a sci-fi movie, with ant-like robots crawling around or humanoid figures greeting visitors, but these were played out at the AI Summit in New York

Cross-border e-commerce has indisputably become air cargo’s golden egg in recent years to a point where it is no exaggeration to suggest that it is fast-becoming the sector’s leading commodity surpassing general cargo.