Logistics News

American ports will gain nearly a half-billion dollars in federal funding “to restore American maritime dominance and revitalize American ports, shipyards and maritime capabilities,” the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) said Thursday.According to DOT, the goal of the grant program is to “modernize America’s ports and strengthen our supply chains,... Read more

It is no secret that trucking is the heart of the nation’s freight system, as most products transported within the United States find their way onto trucks. That’s why DC Velocity is now partnering with U.S. Bank each quarter to present the “U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index Report.”U.S. Bank is... Read more

The U.S. Postal Service plans to temporarily hike its prices by 8% starting April 26 to cope with rising fuel prices, as gasoline and diesel prices continue to rise across the nation in response to market disruptions triggered by the U.S. and Israel’s attack on Iran.USPS today said it had... Read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from experimentation to operational decision support across supply chain planning, but only 10% of retail and manufacturing leaders say they would trust AI to make fully independent supply chain decisions, according to a study from tech vendor Relex Solutions.Instead of allowing AI to make those... Read more

More and more companies are ditching their traditional warehouse storage systems in favor of automated solutions that can both maximize space and speed throughput. This is especially true in complex, large-scale operations, where manual storage systems create inefficiencies and open the door to errors that can cost companies time and... Read more

As retailers wrestle with rising consumer expectations, FedEx Corp. has launched an expedited parcel service supporting both two-hour and end-of-day delivery options.Memphis-based FedEx says it created the service through a collaboration with OneRail, a Florida-based last-mile delivery solution company.The new “FedEx SameDay Local” offering will let shoppers choose two-hour or... Read more

Georgia Ports Authority’s new inland port in the state’s northeast region is set to open in May, offering new logistics infrastructure that connects to Savannah’s global ocean carrier network of 40 ships per week, port leaders said today.Located in Gainesville, Georgia, the site is designed to allow local manufacturers —... Read more

Operating in a market that’s evolving at a breakneck pace, third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) certainly aren’t lacking in challenges. They remain the tip of the supply chain execution spear for businesses of all shapes and sizes.Yet as they plan and execute such fundamental 3PL tasks as storing products, filling... Read more

A survey of challenges faced by retailers shows that their global logistics and fulfillment costs have risen by over 20% in the last three years, as customers expect faster delivery, flexible fulfillment and seamless service as standard, according to a study from supply chain software vendor Manhattan Associates.At the same... Read more

Confronted by shifting tariffs and changes in mandates to convert to low-emission engines, many commercial trucking fleet executives face “procurement paralysis” about whether to invest in new trucks, according to a study from Fleet Advantage, a lessor for heavy-duty Class-8 trucks.And even worse, by postponing those purchases of new vehicles,... Read more

As the Lunar New Year holiday slowed production across Asia last month, the Port of Oakland saw the number of containers it processed in February drop by 16.7% from January and sink 14.5% year over year, the port said today.The report marks the latest disappointing numbers for the port, following... Read more

​Panel participants:JUSUF BUZIMKIC, Chief Sales Officer, KNAPP North AmericaSTIPE GALIC, Vice President of Business Development & Marketing, TGW North AmericaOANA JINGA, Chief Commercial & Product Officer and Co-Founder, DexoryKEN YAXLEY, Industry Manager, Industrial Robotics, SICKQ: WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST LEAPS YOU’VE SEEN IN AUTOMATION WITHIN THE PAST FIVE YEARS?Jusuf Buzimkic... Read more

Companies leasing industrial real estate for logistics use are increasingly moving large-scale distribution activity away from coastal port markets and toward lower-cost inland logistics hubs, according to a report from Cushman & Wakefield.Under that pressure, “port-proximate” industrial markets captured just 19% of total U.S. industrial net absorption in 2025, the... Read more

DHL is expanding its white-glove logistics infrastructure in North America to meet booming demand by tech firms to build the data centers that power artificial intelligence (AI).AI systems such as large learning models (LLMs) are powerful software platforms running on hundreds of servers using specialized processing chips like Nvidia’s graphics... Read more

Contract logistics provider DHL Supply Chain today said it has deployed a robot integration platform from SVT Robotics across its global warehouse network in an effort to accelerate future tech rollouts by orchestrating robotics and automation products from various vendors to work in concert.SVT’s “Softbot” product is a plug-and-play software... Read more