Tag: Transportation and shipping
US retailers brace for potential pain from a longshoremen's strike
With a dockworkers' strike threatening to close ports on the East and Gulf coasts beginning this week, Chris Butler is growing worried. Butler...
Longshoremen at key US ports threatening to strike over automation and pay
Determined to thwart the automating of their jobs, about 45,000 dockworkers along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on...
Biden is taking on cheap products from China. It could mean higher prices
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is cracking down on cheap products sold out of China, expanding a push to reduce U.S. dependence on...
The Mississippi River is running low again. It’s a problem for farmers moving beans and grain
ST. LOUIS -- The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put...
US Postal Service squeeze on shipping consolidators could raise consumer costs
The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages...
Complex supply chains and climate change make "clean beauty" near impossible, but some keep trying
EAST GARAFRAXA, Ontario -- Julie Thurgood-Burnett had no idea that her COVID-19 lockdown whim of starting a lavender patch on her husband's family...