U.S. businesses reaching Chinese consumers online
| February 19, 2024 | Logistics | Shipping Technology
Peter Buxbaum explores how Alibaba.com's latest AI tool, Smart Assistant, is transforming the sourcing process for businesses in the dynamic U.S.-China trade landscape.
AJOT/National Retail Federation optimistic on retail sales growth but fear supply chain disruptions
| February 19, 2024 | International Trade
National Retail Federation (NRF) thinks consumer spending will grow in 2024 but lag behind GDP growth. While disruptions like the Red Sea attacks will cause ripples felt throughout the supply chain all the way into the consumers’ wallets.
What’s in store for ’24?
| January 22, 2024 | International Trade
Twenty-four trends, topics, and thoughts on potential headline makers for 2024
Top 20 North American ports
| January 22, 2024 | Ports & Terminals | Ports | By The Numbers
With the promise of greater box volumes came more investments in East Coast and Gulf ports enabling the ports to handle greater volumes more efficiently.
AJOT’s Top 100 North American Trucking Companies – with one big deletion
| January 22, 2024 | Trucking
Yellow Freight’s demise is a big deletion in this year’s chart but still there are positives to be derived from 2023.
Trucknet sets up Gulf-Israel/Egypt ‘land bridge’
| January 22, 2024 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | Trucking
Trucknet’s landbridge operation bypasses troubled Red Sea pinch point.
In expansion quest, East Coast Warehouse & Distribution opts for new facility outside NYNJ port district
| January 22, 2024 | Logistics
Balancing costs, convenience and congestion, the temperature-controlled logistics provider opened a new warehouse in Dayton, N.J.
New dimensions to warehouse automation
| January 22, 2024 | Logistics
Warehouse automation is now experiencing expansion in unexpected niches.
The Jones Act and National Maritime Strategy
| December 18, 2023 | Maritime | Liner Shipping
The debate over the Jones Act and its impacts on National Maritime Strategy reflect two opposing views as the AJOT’s Stas Margaronis explains.
How AI will impact the future of shipping is a question being asked throughout the logistics community
| December 18, 2023 | Shipping Technology
AJOT correspondent Manik Mehta attending the AI New York 2023 Summit held at the Javits Convention Center got a glimpse of an AI future.
Gamifying the cab
| December 18, 2023 | Trucking
Data technology has muscled its way into the cabs of trucking fleets, and drivers the world over are leery of sharing their tight space with this silent, faceless, mysterious co-worker.
New financing platform aims to green European rail freight
| December 18, 2023 | Energy | Alternative | Green Shipping | Intermodal | Rail
The big picture – Climate change and the supply chain
| December 18, 2023 | Energy | Alternative | Green Shipping | International Trade
Can the supply chain change fast enough to halt climate change?
Offshore floating a wind energy solution for US energy gap
| December 18, 2023 | Energy | Alternative
The U.S. offshore wind industry is facing a reset in 2024, particularly for floating offshore wind, said Habib Dagher, founder and executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composite Center.
U.S. awards 6th offshore wind project
| December 18, 2023 | Energy | Alternative
Cathay Pacific Cargo recovery buoyed by e-commerce
| December 18, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters
Tom Owen, director of Cathay Cargo, says they are building cargo capacity as the sector builds behind e-commerce demand.
LATAM adds 19th 767-300 freighter – 3rd in 2023
| December 18, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters
LATAM Cargo solidified its position as the largest cargo airline group in South America in November when it acquired its 19th 767-300 freighter
Building a giant cold-storage warehouse
| November 20, 2023 | Air Cargo | Technology | Logistics
NewCold creates strategic transportation hub for food producers to promote efficiency and sustainability
Reefers and decarbonization
| November 20, 2023 | Logistics
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the world needs to decrease emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to the baseline year of 2010 to avoid a climate change calamity.
Scratching Savannah’s breakbulk niche
| November 20, 2023 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | Ports & Terminals
Colonial Terminals, Norfolk Southern see a need for additional capacity
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