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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Coke announces industry-leading target for reusable packaging. What Berglund is referring to is the advantage that shipping lines hold for negotiations with cargo shippers for 2022 and beyond. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030.

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Trump's Tariffs Anger US Manufacturers, Business Groups

Material Handling & Logistics

manufacturers with higher costs, impede construction-sector growth and hurt job creation in both industries. steel prices are already almost 50% higher than those in Europe or China, and aluminum prices have been extremely volatile, the chamber added. The new tariffs “would add substantially to these challenges,” the group said.