The Financial Times reports: “Walmart is on track to file more drone patents than Amazon for the second year in a row, as the pair battle for supremacy in the rapidly changing world of retail. The Arkansas-based chain has filed …

FreightWaves writes: “Vista Equity Partners is still trying to sell Omnitracs, the fleet management software and hardware company it acquired for $800 million in a November 2013 leveraged buyout. After two canceled deals in December 2015 and June 2017 – …

Asia-North Europe carriers continue to discount rates to fill their ships, suggesting that the usual pre-peak season recovery will be late, if it happens at all this year. 
CMA CGM has slashed its headhaul FAK rate on the tradelane by …

A vast array of major US businesses and associations have written to the president and major Trump appointees, under the banner of “Tariffs Hurt the Heartland”.  
The letter was sent to Robert Lighthizer, Steven Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, agriculture secretary Sonny …

Arbitrators have told pilots engaged in a long-running stand-off with Atlas Air to conclude the collective bargaining agreement (CBA).  
Pilots represented by the Airline Professionals Association (APA) were told by the System Board of Adjustment on Wednesday to “promptly” finalise …

Imperial Logistics is the $3.5bn company you’ve never heard of – except, you have.  
It owns Palletways, Europe’s largest pallet company, with more than 400 depots in 20 countries, and is Europe’s largest inland barge operator, with 700 ships, of …

Logistics operators in Lodz are hoping to further capitalise on the Polish city’s ties to China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI).  
Centrally located Lodz was the inaugural European destination for the BRI, and the project’s instigator, Hatrans Logistics, is now …