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...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 29, 2025 CHENNAI — August 29, 2025. The campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras is usually filled with students rushing between lectures, not logistics executives in suits. But this week, FedEx parked one of its branded vans right at the entrance of the engineering...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 29, 2025 HONG KONG — August 29, 2025. Freight forwarders opened their inboxes this week to a wave of notices with familiar wording: “capacity adjustment,” “schedule revision,” “sailing withdrawn.” As China’s Golden Week approaches, container carriers are preparing to pull departures with little or no warning,...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 27, 2025 BAGHDAD — August 27, 2025. On a dusty highway outside Basra, convoys of trucks lined up under the morning sun, their trailers marked for Dubai, Doha, and beyond. This week, Iraqi officials confirmed the first successful trial of a multimodal trade corridor linking Iraq,...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 27, 2025 BIRMINGHAM — August 27, 2025. On the edge of Birmingham’s motorway ring, a brand-new warehouse the size of several football pitches has just opened its doors. Inside, conveyor belts snake across the floor, while robotic arms lift parcels with a precision that seems almost...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 27, 2025 COLOMBO — August 27, 2025. On the tarmac at Bandaranaike International Airport, ground staff moved in quick rhythm, forklifts weaving between pallets of textiles, electronics, and seafood bound for Europe and the Middle East. Amid the bustle came the news: SriLankan Airlines will build...
By Maria Kalamatas — August 27, 2025 TOKYO — August 27, 2025. In a modest conference room overlooking Tokyo Bay, officials from Japan and the United States signed an agreement that could reshape the way goods flow across the Pacific. The deal, brokered between Japan’s TradeTech consortium and U.S.-based TradeWaltz, aims...
