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China expert Leland Miller announced as keynote speaker at FreightWaves’ Future of Freight Festival

Freight Waves

The event, a premier gathering for freight and logistics leaders, promises to equip attendees with forward-looking strategies amid ongoing U.S.-China administrations, or internal challenges like property sector woes—directly impact freight volumes, shipping rates, and inventory strategies.

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Mass layoffs continue across freight-related companies in the U.S.

Freight Waves

Another wave of closures and layoffs has hit workers and companies tied to commercial transportation, manufacturing, lumber production, distribution and logistics across the U.S. Cold storage provider Americold Logistics is laying off 110 employees from a facility in Atlanta, citing low volumes. 1,756), Canfor Corp.

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Insider threat cargo theft cases rose in Q2, expert says

Freight Waves

Herndon, Virginia-based BSI Consulting offers solutions for companies operating in sectors such as environmental-health-safety, supply chain security, sustainability and digital trust. To protect themselves against theft and fraud, Pelli recommended companies and logistics professionals do their due diligence on carriers.

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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities

Supply Chain Brain

Walmart previously scaled back its drone deliveries in 2024, when it ended the service in Utah, Arizona and Florida, in favor of focusing on remaining operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas and Virginia. SupplyChainBrain Container Ship Explodes, Catches Fire Off Coast of India More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!

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PayCargo and Gnosis Freight to Power Container Payment Portal for Hapag-Lloyd

Logistics Viewpoints

The Container Payment Portal will serve as the primary interface for Hapag-Lloyd customers to manage compliance with the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) and facilitate the payment of import line demurrage charges for U.S. ” About PayCargo PayCargo is the most trusted logistics payment platform for faster release of cargo.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. In 2023, Amazon experimented with new logistics strategies and technologies to quickly fulfill and deliver orders, and these changes paid off big. Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The end result of the loss of propulsion was the ship crashing into the bridge. And now on to this week’s logistics news.