By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 LAREDO — September 4, 2025. Long queues of trucks stretched for kilometers outside the Laredo crossing early this morning, as cross-border freight surged in the run-up to Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations. For forwarders and shippers, the bottlenecks are hitting just as demand for automotive...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 HONG KONG — September 4, 2025. The emails started landing late Tuesday night. By dawn on Wednesday, forwarders from Shenzhen to Hamburg were already forwarding the same subject lines to their teams: “blank sailing,” “rotation removed,” “schedule change.” Golden Week doesn’t begin until next week,...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 AUSTIN, TEXAS — September 2, 2025. The new McLane tech hub doesn’t look like a traditional logistics site. No trucks outside, no pallets waiting for pickup. Instead, you walk into an open space filled with long tables, laptops, and walls covered in freight maps...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 BONN — September 2, 2025. In the glass headquarters of DHL Supply Chain, executives gathered around a polished oak table to announce a change that could ripple far beyond boardrooms: the appointment of Andries Retief as the company’s new Chief Development Officer. The move...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 NEW YORK — September 2, 2025. At dawn, conveyor belts at JFK’s parcel hub rattled back to life, but the backlog was already there — pallets of delayed parcels stacked three rows deep, stretching toward the loading bays. The long holiday pause had turned...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 SINGAPORE — September 2, 2025. The future of warehousing doesn’t smell of diesel or cardboard. It hums with servers, glows with dashboard screens, and is run by algorithms that never sleep. A new forecast released this week shows the global AI-in-warehousing market climbing from...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 BANGKOK — September 2, 2025. The ceremony didn’t feel like a typical airport launch. No ribbon cutting on a new terminal, no engine roar in the background. Instead, a giant screen flickered to life inside a conference room at Suvarnabhumi Airport, showing live cargo...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 29, 2025 DALLAS — August 29, 2025. At a truck stop just outside Dallas, a convoy of gleaming tractors stood out from the usual diesel rumble. No drivers climbed down from their cabs; the machines themselves were the story. Aurora, the U.S. autonomous trucking pioneer, has...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 29, 2025 ROTTERDAM — August 29, 2025. At the edge of Europe’s busiest port, where container stacks rise like steel towers, a different kind of structure is taking shape: a vast cold storage facility that will run entirely on wind power. Workers in orange vests moved...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 29, 2025 MILTON KEYNES, UK — August 29, 2025. The warehouse doesn’t sound like a warehouse. No clanging metal, no forklift horns, no barked orders. Just a steady electronic hum and the quiet whirr of wheels. Hundreds of squat orange robots zip across the floor, slipping...
