Shipping

The big carriers such as FedEx, UPS and Amazon make lots of deliveries, and none of those packages are being shipped for “free.”

More than a third of bridges need repairs, and over 43,000 are “structurally deficient,” says the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

Shipping giants including MSC, Maersk and CMA CGM have all announced that they will halt cargo bookings to and from Russia until further notice.

In response to the invasion of Ukraine, Maersk will temporarily suspend all container shipping to and from Russia, excluding the transportation of food and medical supplies.

Shipping is a key component of U.S. trade but America has some of the least efficient ports in the world, according to a World Bank and IHS Markit study.

Not even the pandemic kept them from their appointed rounds, but a postal system dealing with the continued impact caused by the omicron variant is about to face a new stress — tens of millions of at-home COVID tests.  “We know this is our job and we persevere, we get it done,” Scott Hoffman, the president of the Metro Area…

With the government set to send out free rapid COVID tests across the country, there are concerns about overwhelming a USPS already struggling with staffing shortages.

Progress can be slow, but hope is now on the horizon. And it comes in the form of an extremely large ship, known as Ever Fortune. The size of three football fields, Ever Fortune and ships like it can carry double the amount of consumer products — like furniture, footwear, and even wine — than ships that have called on…

Shipping is not unique in attempting to find more sustainable ways of powering operations.

“What we’re talking about here is transforming transportation,” FedEx Chief Sustainability Officer Mitch Jackson told CNBC.

Market bubbles are investing phenomena that can occur when valuations are driven by exuberant behavior — and they can burn investors.

New virus outbreaks and China’s zero-Covid policy will continue to stress supply chains for now, a report by trade credit insurer Euler Hermes said.

Amazon is avoiding supply chain chaos by making its own containers, chartering ships and leasing long-haul planes to get goods from China to the U.S. faster

Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are gearing up for another holiday crush

Glass bottles are in short supply, putting pressure on winemakers and distillers ahead of the holiday season.

Convoy co-founder and CEO Dan Lewis on supply chain bottlenecks, inefficiencies in logistics and the impact that self-driving technology will have on trucking.

The Port of Los Angeles’ decision to impose fines on lingering cargo containers was “a last resort,” but it’s working, Executive Director Gene Seroka told CNBC.

There’s not a single port or cargo ship in the world that’s not feeling the effects of the supply chain crunch. That’s according to the MassPort Port Director Mike Meyran.

Elon Musk once said cargo ships were “next easiest” to go electric after cars, and Fleetzero is aiming to decarbonize the industry with battery-powered ships.

It was called “Ship-a-geddon” when pandemic online shopping collided with the holidays last year. The result was a lot of back-ups and package delays. As COVID lingers and supply chain issues mount, Patricia Falcao of Needham, Massachusetts, isn’t sure what her holiday shipping strategy is this year. “Because of supply chain issues one might not get the goods to...