Around 10% of in-store and 18% of online purchases of retail items are returned after the holidays, which totaled to $48B last year. This holiday season, the National Retail Federation is projecting $860B in returns.

In the first seven months of 2021, cargo volumes between Asia and North America were up by 27% compared with pre-pandemic levels.

Even for micro businesses, how things get made can be shaped by macro trends and geopolitics. Now small-scale producers are taking back control.

The Postal Service’s plans will delay a third of mail in 27 states, according to a Washington Post analysis, hitting states west of the Rocky Mountains especially hard.

The e-commerce surge is driving a new paradigm for packaging. Find out how companies that produce corrugated boxes and other packaging materials are expanding their industrial real estate footprint to meet increased demand.

Lumber prices are coming back down to Earth, but the crisis shows how many industries can be rocked by the price of wood.

Prices to ship containers from Asia to the U.S. and Europe are rising at a historic pace as cargo owners bid up rates in a search for ocean transportation capacity that shipping industry executives expect to remain tight for the rest of the year.

The motorhome maker is dealing with record-setting backlogs in towage and motorhome segments amid high demand.

U.S. business costs, buffeted by a COVID-decimated year of “chaos” worldwide in 2020, fell 4% to $1.56 trillion. That amounted to 7.4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), nearly an all-time low, according to a new authoritative report on the logistics sector.

Backed up ports and the Suez Canal fiasco are just surface problems. When things go wrong in this business, they go seriously wrong.

Sales and charters of boats of all sizes are up this summer. You can forget about bargaining, brokers say.

More companies are working toward a circular economy, potentially indicating a critical shift from rapidly buying more new stuff to supporting reuse, repair and resale. Such a shift could create a turning point that puts consumerism on a more sustainable path.

The delivery giant’s performance lags behind UPS, data show, as a pandemic-fueled e-commerce surge overwhelms its network.

Logistics automation companies say demand has grown during the pandemic as companies cope with big swings in volume and a tight hiring market.

Automakers are expecting $110 billion in lost sales this year due to shortages.

Americans are returning to restaurants, bars and other dining places as Covid-19 restrictions come down, adding new strains in food supply chains.

The report’s shipment reading—at 1.178—saw a 27.6% annual gain, which outpaced March’s 10% annual increase, and was down 3.1% compared to March on a seasonally-adjusted (SA) basis. On the spend side, Cass reported that April expenditures—at 3.452—headed up 45.1% annually, setting a new record and topping March’s 27.5% annual increase, and saw a 1.1% SA gain compared to March.

Brands will need to reimagine their supply chain to handle the wave of stay-at-home orders driven by direct-to-consumer e-commerce.