DC Velocity

Listen now: https://lnkd.in/e7pY6N6 One week ago here in the U.S., we saw former trade tariffs expiring and a host of new tariffs being slapped on most of our trading partners. These new tariffs are attempting to tie these countries to not doing enough to prevent forced labor in the production of their products, though those allegations are extremely hard to prove. Our guest this week is Maxime Darmet, senior economist at Allianz Trade, who shares these tariffs' impact on our supply chains and how they compare to previous tariffs. We also look at how business margins have been affected by the various tariffs of the past year and a half. Plus: Taking to the skies; Finding the right fit

Last-mile food delivery service provider DoorDash has obtained federal authorization to operate as an air carrier and offer flying drone delivery service, the company said Wednesday.

As a shortage of parking spots for trucks continues to challenge freight carriers, smartphone app provider Trucker Path has provided statistics showing where the problem is the most acute.

Supply chain activity in the U.S. remains below its long-run average as the market searches for a clear direction, according to a report from trailer rental provider Warehouse on Wheels.

A developer of autonomous heavy-cargo drones for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) said its latest model can now deliver payloads in three ways: precision airdrop from a hover, precision airdrop in forward flight, and ground delivery, each executed without personnel or ground infrastructure at the receiving site.

Container volumes at the Port of Savannah totaled 483,684 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) For June, an increase of nearly 73,300 TEUs or 18% over the same month last year.

Shippers are increasingly paying more to move their products, as shipping costs in the second quarter rose at three times the rate of consumer prices, according to a market report from supply chain software provider Deposco.

The Swedish investment firm EQT Real Estate says it has acquired 11 institutional-quality logistics assets totaling 2.8 million square feet across six high-growth U.S. logistics markets, for a price of $268 million.

The private equity firm that acquired Honeywell’s Intelligrated and Transnorm divisions in April has now completed that transaction, and will combine those two businesses with the systems integrator Trew, the company said.

Freight broker C.H. Robinson and third party logistics (3PL) trade group the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) are pushing back on a court case where a jury yesterday awarded $604 million in corporate fines to the families of drivers killed in a highway wreck between a freight truck and several passenger vehicles.