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Mariner Logistics Rolls Out Carrier Verification Standard After Supreme Court Ruling
Mariner Logistics, a full-service 4PL and managed transportation provider, today announced the Sentinel Protocol, a structured, multi-source carrier and driver verification standard applied to every shipment Mariner coordinates. The protocol is designed to produce documented, traceable evidence of rigorous due...
Tariff Volatility Is Driving Companies Into More Trade Zones Than Their Software Can Manage
Companies are responding to tariff volatility by leaning harder on foreign trade zones, and most of them are now running more zones than their software was built to manage. In a 2026 survey of 301 enterprise trade, supply chain, and...
Capacity, Not Demand, Is Tightening Cross-Border Freight, and Diesel Is Sending It to Rail
Moving freight across the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico has become measurably harder over the past several months, and the pressure is coming less from a surge in shipments than from a shortage of trucks to haul them. The...
Is the Freight Recession Over?
For the past eighteen months, someone in this industry has declared the freight recession over roughly every six to eight weeks. Analysts, executives, economists — all taking their turn at the podium, all eventually walking it back. Craig Fuller himself...
With the Strait Closed, Aviation Is Rewriting Its Economics from the Ground Up
When the Strait of Hormuz closed, the effects on container shipping and trucking were immediate and well-documented, but the disruption to global aviation has been equally severe and, in several respects, more structurally consequential, because the aviation industry does not...
AI Is Writing More of the Software That Runs Logistics While Its Security Falls Behind
The more code an organization hands to artificial intelligence, the more likely it is to ship software with known security flaws. Companies where AI generated 81 to 100 percent of production code were nearly three times more likely to release...
China’s Softer Tone on Rare Earths Does Not Change U.S. Dependence
In May, China told the United States that its rare earth export controls are lawful and that it would address what it considers reasonable concerns about critical mineral access. The statement from China's Ministry of Commerce, reported by Reuters, followed...
PAVA Logistics Scaled to 200 Trucks Without Losing Control of Its Margins
Pavlo Vayda built PAVA Logistics the way most carriers say they want to build a trucking company but rarely do; slowly, with cash, and with a close eye on cost per mile. Founded in 2011 with a single truck, PAVA...
Diesel at $5.64, Ocean Rates Climbing, and a Strait That Won’t Reopen
Atlantic and Gulf port regions are running hot, West Coast gateways are absorbing outbound capacity pressure, and the domestic transportation market is taking simultaneous hits from fuel costs, enforcement activity, and rerouted ocean carrier networks. The common thread running through...
Tim Cook Built Apple’s Supply Chain. Now It Has to Exist Without Him.
When Tim Cook steps down as Apple's CEO on September 1st, the technology press will cover it as a leadership transition, but for the supply chain industry it is something more specific: a case study in what happens when 28...
The Supreme Court Just Validated What Good Brokers Have Been Doing All Along
The Supreme Court's unanimous ruling allowing freight brokers to face state negligence claims for negligent carrier selection is being welcomed by operationally serious brokers as long overdue recognition that carrier vetting is a safety decision, not a paperwork exercise. The...
The Freight Market Is Tightening, but Q1 Data Shows the Shift Is Structural.
Spot load posts climbed more than 70 percent year over year in February, outpacing available truck capacity by a margin that has not been seen in years, and the conditions driving that imbalance are not resolving. They are compounding. That...
Changing the Document Doesn’t Change the Rules. Changing Where the Risk Lives Is Another Matter.
By Ben Silas, Group Chief Commercial Officer, EFM Global, with contribution from Catherine Stephens, Head of International Trade Services, Business West Today, June 1, 2026, the United Kingdom, European Union, Norway, and Switzerland will stop accepting paper ATA carnets as...
Data Shows Freight Has Entered a New Phase: the Low-Rate Era Is Over.
The three-year period of stable, lower freight rates that followed the COVID-era peak is ending, and the data in Traffix's Q2 2026 Market Update makes clear that what is replacing it is not a temporary spike but a structural reset...
As Hormuz Pressure Mounts, Supply Chain Technology Pivots Toward Continuous Intelligence
The global supply chain technology sector is responding to geopolitical pressure with a new generation of platforms built not for periodic optimization but for real-time adaptation, and the companies making the most credible case for that shift are not only...
Freight Fraud Hit an All-Time High in Q1
Freight fraud reached an all-time high in Q1 2026, and direct theft by rogue carriers accounted for half of all fraud incidents. Change-of-ownership fraud climbed 169.6 percent year over year. Fraudulent email attempts rose 49.9 percent from the same period...
Supreme Court Rules Freight Brokers Can Be Held Liable for Unsafe Carrier Selection
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down a unanimous decision last week that will reverberate through every freight brokerage operation in the country, ruling that federal law does not shield transportation brokers from state-level negligent-hiring lawsuits when the...
Hormuz Crisis and Capacity Squeeze Drive First Sustained Cost Increases Since COVID
The April issue of the ITS Logistics US Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index elevates all port and rail ramp regions to levels of concern, as the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis collides with four years of trucking capacity exits, driving higher...
What the Strait of Hormuz Is Doing to Your Supply Chain Right Now
The conflict in the Middle East is no longer a geopolitical abstraction for freight professionals. It is showing up in fuel surcharges, spot rate movements, rerouted ocean lanes, and broker margins. Supply Chain Moves gathered perspectives from three practitioners working...
Trump Rewrites the Rules on Metal Imports Section 232: Part 1
The Section 232 proclamation that President Trump signed on April 2 and took effect at 12:01 a.m. EDT on April 6 is the most significant structural overhaul of America's metals tariff regime since its inception. It replaces the single flat-rate...
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