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A cargo ship at the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong. Western countries were disappointed in the International Maritime Organization’s environmental plan, while big exporters in the developing world supported it.PHOTO: JEROME FAVRE/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK The world’s top maritime regulator has agreed to a plan to cut the “carbon-intensity” of ocean-going vessels, overriding objections from Western countries […]

Even though global supply chains are regaining their footing as the Covid-19 pandemic begins to ease in much of the industrialized world, recent data suggests that many businesses are about to be knocked off their feet again.Uncertainty surrounding the demand predictions needed to drive supply-chain decisions-making increased markedly during the past 15 months as the […]

Shoppers may be back at the mall, but e-commerce providers are betting consumers will keep a firm grip on their digital shopping carts as pandemic restrictions ease.Logistics operators whose businesses boomed during the Covid-19 online-ordering surge say they are maintaining their investments and upbeat outlooks. They expect the rush to online commerce that came at […]