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Lineage's cold storage occupancy climbs to 76.2%

Honda plans a $3B hybrid plant in Ohio

Stellantis sells its idled Brampton plant to Roshel

Diesel stays above $6 as distillate stocks hit a 23-year low

US container imports hit a 2026 high in September

Canada Goose will revisit prices after absorbing the 50% tariff

Amazon and regional carriers gain parcel volume as UPS shrinks

US imports from South Korea nearly double

Evergreen returns to the Suez Canal

LA-Long Beach port watchmen talks extended to Nov 20

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Lineage's cold storage occupancy climbs to 76.2%

Occupancy rose 1.1 points as Lineage and Americold idled capacity, but storage revenue per pallet fell 2% and inventories stayed low.

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US freight bills rose 32% in Q3 on flat shipments

Shippers paid 32.1% more than a year earlier to move 0.5% more freight, as tight truck capacity and diesel above $6.50 pushed rates up.

India pays makers to challenge China's grip on containers

A $1.05 billion program will pay about $520 per 20-foot box to lift India's output tenfold, to 750,000 TEUs a year.

US imports from Malaysia hit a record $8.6 billion

Imports nearly doubled from a year earlier as computer parts and storage drives made up most of the rise.

How Ypsomed spots supplier risk early

Roland Seckler and Paul Grandy on Ypsomed's four-pillar plan, its ten-day software rollout and the supplier alert that arrived five minutes after a fire hit the news

Lineage's cold storage occupancy climbs to 76.2%

Occupancy rose 1.1 points as Lineage and Americold idled capacity, but storage revenue per pallet fell 2% and inventories stayed low.

US freight bills rose 32% in Q3 on flat shipments

India pays makers to challenge China's grip on containers

US imports from Malaysia hit a record $8.6 billion

Eastman raised prices 7% in Q3, with more coming

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See DOSS's new Dynamic Apps feature, live

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Latest ›

Lineage's cold storage occupancy climbs to 76.2%

Honda plans a $3B hybrid plant in Ohio

Stellantis sells its idled Brampton plant to Roshel

Diesel stays above $6 as distillate stocks hit a 23-year low

US container imports hit a 2026 high in September

Canada Goose will revisit prices after absorbing the 50% tariff

Amazon and regional carriers gain parcel volume as UPS shrinks

US imports from South Korea nearly double

Evergreen returns to the Suez Canal

LA-Long Beach port watchmen talks extended to Nov 20

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Wing to build a $125M drone factory in Fort Worth

The Alphabet unit's 15,000-square-foot plant is designed to build thousands of drones a year for a Walmart rollout to 270-plus stores.

Tractor Supply opens its 11th DC, the first with automated storage

The Nampa, Idaho, center runs a Knapp storage and retrieval system and will serve 123 stores in nine states in its first year.

Walmart adds 300 Zipline drone delivery sites

The deal expands Walmart’s drone ambitions alongside a separate plan with Wing to reach more than 270 stores.

Lineage's cold storage occupancy climbs to 76.2%

Occupancy rose 1.1 points as Lineage and Americold idled capacity, but storage revenue per pallet fell 2% and inventories stayed low.

Walmart breaks ground on a $1.3B Georgia fulfillment center

Construction began Nov 2, with opening and hiring dates still to come. Walmart's last next-gen center opened three years after its announcement.

Colgate's North America sales shrink as shoppers buy less

Volume fell 3.7% in the third quarter as prices rose 2.2%, and Colgate saw no meaningful retailer destocking.

Walmart commits $6 billion to Symbotic automation in 25 DCs

The deal adds single-item picking to Walmart's dry-goods DCs as the retailer builds a separate $400 million DC in Texas.

UPS shifts RFID labeling to shippers as it automates its network

UPS expects shippers to label 6 million packages a day in 2027, double today, so its trucks read them automatically at pickup.

DoorDash to buy Instacart and manage more grocers' inventory itself

The $17 billion deal won't close before late 2027, and DoorDash already holds Giant Eagle and Albertsons products in its warehouses.

WD-40 cuts $7 million from supply chain costs

WD-40 also cut four days of inventory and added a manufacturing partner in Europe.

Stord buys AMS Fulfillment and its 10 million yearly orders for beauty and wellness brands

AMS follows UPS's Ware2Go, Ceva's Shipwire and Pitney Bowes' fulfillment unit into Stord's network, which runs fulfillment for independent brands.

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Lineage's cold storage occupancy climbs to 76.2%

Occupancy rose 1.1 points as Lineage and Americold idled capacity, but storage revenue per pallet fell 2% and inventories stayed low.

Wing to build a $125M drone factory in Fort Worth

The Alphabet unit's 15,000-square-foot plant is designed to build thousands of drones a year for a Walmart rollout to 270-plus stores.

Tractor Supply opens its 11th DC, the first with automated storage

Walmart adds 300 Zipline drone delivery sites

Walmart breaks ground on a $1.3B Georgia fulfillment center

Colgate's North America sales shrink as shoppers buy less

Logistics ›

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Amazon and regional carriers gain parcel volume as UPS shrinks

Amazon's volume rose 9.7% and UPS's fell 5.7% in the first half, as 145 million packages went to alternative carriers and retailer networks.

FedEx adds 5 weekly freighter flights from Asia before peak

Five Boeing 777F flights add 1.25 million pounds of weekly capacity into Memphis, alongside a new five-times-weekly connection to Dallas-Fort Worth.

Cold storage demand rises as Americold occupancy climbs

Americold’s same-store warehouses were 70% full as stored pallets rose 6.5%, while rival Lineage says the market is still overbuilt.

Uber Freight bookings jump 35% as truckload rates climb

Uber Freight posted $1.77 billion in gross bookings as enterprise customers expanded their business and truckload rates rose across the market.

LA-Long Beach watchmen push strike deadline to Friday

Federal mediators join talks Friday ahead of a midnight Pacific deadline, as terminals moving over half the ports’ cargo could face a walkout.

Logistics ›

Amazon and regional carriers gain parcel volume as UPS shrinks

Amazon's volume rose 9.7% and UPS's fell 5.7% in the first half, as 145 million packages went to alternative carriers and retailer networks.

FedEx adds 5 weekly freighter flights from Asia before peak

Cold storage demand rises as Americold occupancy climbs

Uber Freight bookings jump 35% as truckload rates climb

LA-Long Beach watchmen push strike deadline to Friday

Freight ›

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Diesel stays above $6 as distillate stocks hit a 23-year low

Distillate stocks fell to 99.3 million barrels, the lowest since May 2003, as demand ran 8.7% above last year and refineries ran at 94.5%.

Corridian raises $38M for cargo-carrying underwater drones

The Boston startup's Point72-led seed round funds giant autonomous underwater vehicles built to carry shipping containers for the military.

Evergreen returns to the Suez Canal

It joins Maersk, MSC, Hapag-Lloyd and COSCO on the route as container capacity through Suez climbs past half its pre-crisis level.

Air cargo spot rates rise 29% in Oct on Asia-US demand

AI-related demand lifted China to North America rates 38%, while high jet fuel costs and lost Gulf capacity added to upward pressure.

Class 8 truck orders fall 36% as the EPA rule lingers

October’s 15,600 orders were the lowest this year, as fleets wait on EPA’s final 2027 engine rule and its cost per truck.

Freight ›

Diesel stays above $6 as distillate stocks hit a 23-year low

Distillate stocks fell to 99.3 million barrels, the lowest since May 2003, as demand ran 8.7% above last year and refineries ran at 94.5%.

Corridian raises $38M for cargo-carrying underwater drones

Evergreen returns to the Suez Canal

Air cargo spot rates rise 29% in Oct on Asia-US demand

Class 8 truck orders fall 36% as the EPA rule lingers

Trade and risk ›

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US container imports hit a 2026 high in September

Imports reached 2.37 million TEU, up 12.6%, before a slowdown NRF expects to turn into year-over-year declines by January.

Why knowing your tier 2 suppliers isn't enough

Sphera's Paul Grandy says to map supply risk at three levels: sites, products and raw materials. One factory makes many things. Only some of them go into your product.

How Sphera turns 500,000 news sources into one supplier alert

Sphera's Paul Grandy explains how software and analysts narrow world news down to alerts on your suppliers' sites, and where teams fall short after the alert arrives.