Oil prices are up. Shipping costs are up. Everything is up. Yet, here we are, with US manufacturing stubbornly refusing to fold. It’s a confusing picture.
A report suggesting Ford was in U.S. market talks with China's Geely for tech sharing has been firmly denied. This denial, however, lands amid a charged geopolitical climate for automakers.
Warehouses are no longer just about moving boxes; they're dynamic, intelligent systems. The shift from basic control to sophisticated orchestration is here, and it's fundamentally changing how facilities operate.
Forget drone swarms and self-driving trucks for a second. Accenture just put a bipedal robot to work in a German warehouse, and it's not just fetching coffee. This pilot is about 'physical AI' taking on actual inspection tasks, raising eyebrows and questions.
The specter of Red Sea disruptions is fading, and with it, soaring container freight rates. But as Asia-Europe lanes return to normalcy, the real test for carriers has just begun: can they manage capacity, or are we heading for another price war?
Thule's betting big on automation in Poland—a 42-meter beast of a warehouse set to swallow 40,000 pallets. It's not just storage; it's a radical rethink of how goods flow across continents.
Containers piling up at JNPA port in Mumbai — 121,000 TEU in March alone, triple February's haul. India's cabotage waiver lives on, a pragmatic pivot amid Red Sea chaos that's rewriting supply chain routes.