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GEODIS Expands Mexico Nearshoring Operations

GEODIS has opened an office in Guadalajara, Jalisco, to support the growth of the global logistics provider’s growing nearshoring freight forwarding business in Mexico. The Guadalajara office, GEODIS’s second-largest operations center in Mexico, will become a shared services center, including key logistics operations for the entire Americas region, the company said. It will support all business, including accounting processes, supply chain engineering, operational logistics and control tower. With operations already consolidated in ... [+]

Tariffs Topple LA Port Volume, FY 2025-26 Budget

The Port of Los Angeles blamed the impacts of tariffs on imports and exports, as its May volume fell 5 percent to 716,619 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, and ending 10 straight months of year-over-year growth in overall cargo volume. “May marked our lowest monthly cargo ... [+]

Consumers ‘Seeing Way Through’ Tariffs, NRF

U.S. Census Bureau data released June 17 showed continued growth in core retail sales – which exclude autos, gas and restaurants – in May despite a downturn in overall sales amid on-again, off-again tariffs on imported merchandise, said National Retail Federation Chief Economist Jack Kleinhen. “Despite ... [+]

DOT Proposal Would Slash Trucking Regulations

The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed slashing or amending about two dozen federal trucking regulations — major and minor — that the agency said were outdated or punishing truckers. “My department is slashing duplicative and outdated regulations that are unnecessarily burdensome, waste taxpayer dollars, and ... [+]

OECD Lowers 2025-26 Global, US Forecast

Global economic prospects are weakening, with substantial barriers to trade, tighter financial conditions, diminishing confidence and heightened policy uncertainty projected to have adverse impacts on growth, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) latest Economic Outlook (https://tinyurl.com/mr3m6fbh). Global growth has slowed from 3.3 ... [+]

Americold Teams with DP World, CPKC in Canada

Americold Realty Trust, a provider of temperature-controlled logistics, real estate and value-added services, said May 29 it has begun work on its first import-export hub to be built in Port Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The new cold storage facility, slated to open in 2026, will ... [+]

DP World to Invest $760 Million in Port of Caucedo

DP World said May 15 it will invest US$760 million to expand the Dominican Republic Port of Caucedo, which it said would create a manufacturing and logistics hub for the Americas DP World signed a memorandum of understanding, or MoU, with the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of ... [+]

US, China Agree to 90-day Pause on Tariffs

‘Liberation Day’ for many U.S. consumers and global traders came on May 14, not April 2, which was the day when President Donald Trump essentially set an embargo against Xi Jinping and China, and prohibitive tariffs against every country. And some penguins. Instead, On May 12, ... [+]

Port Freeport Unveils Cold Chain Facility

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., Freeport Warehouse LLC and Port Freeport unveiled the new Cross-Dock No. 1 facility, with 80,000 square feet of chilled cross-dock warehouse located near Port Freeport’s Velasco Container Terminal. Fresh Del Monte Produce, a leading vertically integrated producer, marketer and distributor of ... [+]

Tariff Tensions Temper Maersk’s ’25 Forecast

Danish shipping giant Maersk posted better-than-expected first quarter operating profit but warned that the ongoing tariff trade war between China and the U.S. could stunt global container volumes. Maersk said first quarter earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, of US$2.71 billion for the ... [+]

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