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Strategic cargo theft is a rapidly growing concern

Freight Waves

to discuss the evolving landscape of cargo theft that continues to plague the freight industry. While straight theft (the physical taking of trucks, trailers, or cargo from where they’re parked) remains the most common form of cargo theft, criminal tactics have shifted in the last few years.

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AI-Powered Supply Chains: Building Resilience in a Complicated World

Supply Chain Brain

The large language models that make up search engines will no longer need keyword searches, instead delivering well-articulated answers by using the semantic context of a query. For example, a dispatcher is responsible for purchasing components for pre-production and stocking of two new products.

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Descartes: protecting freight with advanced fraud prevention technology

Freight Waves

Fraudulent operators employ sophisticated tactics, from stealing login credentials to purchasing unused MC numbers, allowing them to impersonate legitimate companies. Rather than relying on intuition or paper documentation, the company now utilizes platforms that “continuously monitor everything from carrier credentials to live GPS signals.”

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Top Supply Chain Risks to Prepare for in 2025

Logistics Viewpoints

These predictions mostly seem obvious. I got a pitch from the PR firm representing Everstream Analytics that was different. Everstream Analytics is sitting on a vast trove of risk data. The company applies AI and other analytics to this data to provide supply chain risk analytics and insights to its clients.

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Trouble at the Terminal: How U.S. Secondary Tariffs on Russian Energy Could Shake Up Global Trade

Shapiro

However, it may try to soften its exposure—perhaps by reducing public purchases, using intermediaries, or shifting more trade to private refiners to avoid direct links that could trigger U.S. But if enforcement kicks in, expect big changes in how energy is moved, priced, and documented. While the U.S. won’t follow through.

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How Tariffs Are Reshaping Global Supply Chains in 2025

Supply Chain Brain

With 2025 tariffs increasing component costs, Apple has accelerated efforts to diversify its supply chain. While this mitigates tariff costs, it requires rigorous supplier vetting and coordination, increasing operational complexity. Walmart reported a 5% rise in logistics costs due to longer shipping routes. A 2025 U.S.

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New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

Supply Chain Digest

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Criminals are increasingly using cyber tactics to impersonate drivers, falsify load documents, exploit digital load boards and reroute shipments. Criminals are increasingly using cyber tactics to impersonate drivers, falsify load documents, exploit digital load boards and reroute shipments.

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