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Context changes everything: what supplier contracts reveal about supply chain performance

Clarity across supplier contracts helps procurement teams uncover savings, risk and performance insights.

Why more inventory won’t fix your supply chain’s fill rate

Record inventory but still missing fill rate targets? The problem isn't supply or forecasting; it's your supply chain decision layer. Here's how to fix it.

Non-Performing Loans Account for 3.8% of Uzbekistan Bank Lending

Uzbekistan’s banks reported 25.04 trillion soums in non-performing loans as of 1 October 2026, equal to 3.8% of their total loan portfolio.

AIT Worldwide acquires Australia’s Connor Anderson

PRESS RELEASE Nov 1, 2026 11:01 PM Eastern Standard Time AIT Worldwide Logistics Expands Global Footprint to Oceania with Acquisition of Australia-Based Forwarder Connor Anderson International Strategic investment increases AIT’s geographic reach, high-tech logistics support capabilities ITASCA, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–S…

Industrial Lending in Uzbekistan Falls 8.8% Year on Year

Bank loans to Uzbekistan’s industrial sector fell to 133.4 trillion soums by 1 October 2026, despite 13.2% growth in the overall loan portfolio.

Uzbekistan’s Bank Loan Portfolio Grows 13.2% in a Year

Uzbekistan’s commercial bank loans reached 659.1 trillion soums by 1 October 2026, driven by 19% growth in lending to individuals.

Kazakh PM identifies military exercise shortcomings, outlines measures to strengthen troop safety after Caspian Sea tragedies

News in Brief Podcast | Week 43 | Reliability, rates and port fee delay

How reliable is container shipping right now, and what are the biggest factors impacting on-time performance? This week on News in Brief, Xeneta Chief Analyst Peter Sand joins us to unpack the latest schedule reliability data, explore how different carrier alliance strategies are performing, and examine the ongoing im…

What Changes in Uzbekistan’s Legislation from 1 November 2026

Uzbekistan introduces changes to customs fees, pension services, LPG supplies, public security, business prepayments and mobile advertising from 1 November.

CNBC: Stock market rocked as investors dump tech shares

CNBC reports: The Nasdaq Composite tumbled on Friday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average outperformed as traders moved out of key stocks related to artificial intelligence and into more defensive areas of the market. The tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 2.86% and closed at 25,437.00, posting its worst single-day performance…

Georgian Dream making move to ban main opposition parties

Critics say ruling party wants to “formalize one-party dictatorship.”

Azerbaijan and Turkey: Feud deepens over differences on Israel

Aliyev shows up Erdogan by skipping Turkic summit.

Uzbekistan Airports Handle 12.66m Passengers in Nine Months

Uzbekistan’s airports handled 12.66 million passengers in January-September 2026, up 13% year on year, while cargo and mail volumes rose 27%.

Newbuildings head for Asia-Latin America trades as volumes boom

Deliveries in the past week have been primarily deployed to services between the Far East and Latin America, highlighting growing volumes on these trades. Alphaliner noted that Imabari Shipbuilding completed the 13,932 teu ONE Symphony that will be deployed on ONE’s Asia-WCSA AX3 service the pan-Japanese carrier runs …

EXCLUSIVE: CargoWise customs message delays leave forwarders waiting for clearance

CargoWise users handling British and Japanese customs declarations suffered messaging delays on Wednesday, while the backlog had been fully cleared the following morning. Customer notifications seen by The Loadstar show WiseTech acknowledged an issue affecting message responses at 10.37am on 28 October. At 11.24, it c…

Full planes and fond farewells: air cargo does Miami

The weather was dreadful, the blueberries were under suspicion, and there were people dressed as rats outside the convention centre. Inside, however, air cargo was in a remarkably good mood. At TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum in Miami this week, the airlines had turned up in force, people wanted to do business, and anyone wit…

A platform to challenge ‘death by a thousand [D&D] invoices’

Congestion today could mean a fresh wave of disputed detention and demurrage (D&D) charges tomorrow, according to Sara Dandan, founder of FourOneOne. She told The Loadstar disruption at ports, including growing backlogs of containers at Los Angeles and Long Beach, was likely to translate into extra invoices in the com…

Carriers’ November rate hikes ‘doomed’ say analysts, as demand goes flat

Container spot freight rates on the transpacific eastbound trade, as recorded by Drewry, saw its steepest one-week fall since June 2025 after this year’s protracted peak season came to an end. Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) saw the spot rate on its Shanghai-Los Angeles decline 6% week on week, to end at $7,514 p…

‘Supply chain transformation’: Walmart and tech leader Symbotic disclose multi-billion agreement

PRESS RELEASE Walmart and Symbotic Expand Commercial Agreement to Support Supply Chain Transformation Building on more than a decade of collaboration, the companies will expand Symbotic automation across 25 U.S. regional distribution centers, while supporting opportunities across Walmart’s global supply chain WILMINGT…

LA/LB port complex braces for potential strike as labour contract expires

The US ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach face potential disruption from Sunday, as around 250 security workers, represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 26, prepare for strike action amid the ongoing labour dispute. The latest labour contract extension will expire at 5pm Pacific Ti…

XPO beats FedEx Freight & Old Dominion on volume growth – yet the bulls want more

Third-quarter update: XPO grew shipments almost 6% while Old Dominion and FedEx Freight shipped less, and its margins held up far better than the season usually allows, but its headline price growth slowed to 3.6%. Management puts that down to heavier, shorter-haul freight spilling over from a squeezed truckload marke…

250 watchmen, one picket line and half of America’s busiest port complex

A threatened Sunday walkout at Los Angeles and Long Beach may be delayed until Wednesday. The real danger is the reach of a small union local, with 35,688 containers already waiting for rail service. It takes a special kind of labor dispute to put half a port complex at risk with a workforce smaller than the guest lis…

Kyrgyzstan receives first rail shipment of Chinese gasoline to boost energy security

AI in logistics: where it’s real and where it’s noise

The most common misconception about AI in logistics is that it’s a magic button. If it were, the average operator’s day would look very different two years into the AI wave. But it doesn’t, and the portal-hopping, the chasing, the manual reconciling are mostly still there. That gap, between the noise about AI and the …

Railway shipments of gasoline from China to Kyrgyzstan launched

Kroger accelerates direct sourcing efforts for better cost control, visibility

The grocery chain seeks to boost first-party procurement volumes to more than 10% while working toward a fully owned import and distribution model.

Georgia Dream making move to ban main opposition parties

Critics say ruling party wants to “formalize one-party dictatorship.”

FedEx drawing parcel-focused shippers to its air freight services

Air freight demand from traditionally parcel-centric customers is rising as the carrier pushes for more business in high-value segments like AI and data centers.

OPI, Nioxin owner appoints chief supply chain officer

Javier Huerta will oversee The Wella Company’s sourcing, manufacturing and logistics capabilities, effective Dec. 1

Scan Global Logistics to acquire US forwarder OIA Global

Danish freight forwarder Scan Global Logistics (SGL) is set to undertake its largest takeover, agreeing to acquire its US counterpart, OIA Global, in a deal expected to propel SGL into the ranks of the world’s 20 largest freight forwarders. “The acquisition of OIA Global marks a significant milestone for Scan Global L…