Shippers rushing to move export cargo out of East Asia before National Day factory closures face a tightening bottleneck. Recent typhoon disruptions across major regional hubs have triggered severe vessel congestion. In response, ocean carr...

When a product is recalled, you have hours to work out whether it is yours. We checked 310 Chinese company names from US recall notices. Most of them did not point to one clear company. It is Monday morning. A US safety regulator has just announced a recall, and the notice names a company in China. Your warehouse manager wants answers. Do we have this product on the shelves? Should we stop shipping it? Someone types the company name into your supplier list and gets nothing ba

Global supply chains face increasing friction at international borders. Rapidly changing tariffs and strict export-control regulations create severe bottlenecks for importers and freight forwarders. Manual classification processes often res...