In the letter to the President Biden U.S. Chamber President and CEO Suzanne Clark wrote that it is imperative for the White House to intervene immediately and appoint an independent mediator to help the ILWU and PMA come to terms on an agreement on a new contract.

The American Institute for Packaging and the Environment's board features leaders from the packaging and consumer goods sectors. The institute's mission is to be the leading voice for the packaging industry, using science to inspire, create and advocate for sustainable solutions for the packaging value chain.

There is a sharp, telling contrast among yields of trucking companies, depending on which niche they are operating. An expected slow first half for freight demand has morphed into uncertain expectations for the rest of the year. Most truckload (TL) executives are hoping for a second-half rebound to make up for a below-par first half.

Rail carloads, at 1,129,255, eked out a 0.8%, or 8,840 carloads, annual gain, said AAR. Intermodal containers and trailers, at 1,190,553 containers and trailers, fell 11.1%, or 148,780 units

Reinhard Schaefer, Executive Board Member, is appointed interim CEO in North America.

Event serves as important reminder of operator safety training, technology, and forklift safety practices

Join experts from Körber Supply Chain, Perficient, and Bricz to explore how combining a WMS and OMS helps you increase margin, improve ROI, and capitalize on operational efficiencies.

Refashiond co-founder Brian Laung Aoaeh talks investments and why math is a pathway to the supply chain.

ABF Freight System, the nation’s seventh-largest less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier with $2.95 billion in revenue last year, has won five years of labor peace under a tentative new National Master Freight Agreement with the Teamsters union. The Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee (TNFINC) and ABF have tentatively agreed to terms for a new national contract. It will be sent out to approximately 8,600 ABF truck drivers, dock workers and other members nationwide. The current five-year agreement expires June 30.

ABB Robotics’ dedicated Packaging and Logistics facility in Atlanta, Georgia develops AI-enabled robotic skills to help U.S. customers remain competitive

Hear what Iana Shaheen has to say about humanitarian supply chains on this week's podcast.

For April, the most recent month for which data is available, Port Tracker observed that import volumes, for the ports covered in the report, came in at 1.78 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), which marked a 9.6% gain over March’s 1.62 million TEU— the lowest volume in a month going back to May 2020’s 1.53 million TEU, when several Asian-based factories and U.S.-based stores were closed because of the pandemic—and a 21.3% annual decline.

The company said it invested roughly $18 million into this new facility, which will be comprised of more than 125 full-time employees. And it added that a key driver for this facility is to meet growing demand in the Kansas City region and process more domestic volume and ship throughout the U.S.

AI and vision technology are making robotic depalletizing and palletizing solutions more flexible, but master data on SKUs still needs attention, and palletizing needs proper buffering and sequencing of cases to optimize the pallet build.

To improve Supply Chain performance, the time has come for those involved to collaborate and pool their resources, see the details in this ebook.

A new, mini, paper-based wrapping system steps up to packaging stations for artisans as well as high-volume e-commerce.

A3's robotics and automation trade show and conference heads to Chicago in 2024, and will return to Detroit in 2025

In tough times for attracting operators, having a fleet with operator- and application-appropriate comfort factors can help.

In early 2022, the Port of Long Beach (POLB) was dealing with a long queue of inbound vessels waiting to be unloaded and waiting offshore, with the tally, at one point, up to 109 vessels, observed POLB Executive Director Mario Cordero on a recent media conference call. By the end of 2022, though, that queue, he said, “was long gone, as the import surge had abated, coupled with United States supply chain activity returning to more normal levels of activity and, in some...