(Natural News) American transportation and logistics giant Ryder System Inc, commonly known as Ryder, has announced that it will be laying off 801 employees after the company lost work at a factory in Austin, Texas. A total of 801 Ryder employees at the Applied Material site, a semiconductor plant in Austin, will lose their jobs. […]

(Natural News) If Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a Republican and he worked for the Trump administration, he would be getting questions daily about why, after nearly two years in office, the country is continuing to experience shortages of key consumer products. He would be asked what he is doing to negate the ongoing baby […]

(Natural News) China’s extreme and repressive Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions have affected the American economy by harming global supply chains, said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The Fed chair added that when certain regions or cities in China initiate full shutdowns, if those areas are deeply connected to the global economy, supply chains become “less […]

(Natural News) One of the United States’ largest railroad labor unions has voted down a tentative agreement with rail management, raising the likelihood of a strike occurring by December. A strike could cause chaos as essential supplies become stranded along the rails. The Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation […]

(Natural News) The prices of used trucks are falling across almost all years and models as new truck manufacturers are starting to overcome supply chain disruptions. This comes from preliminary data on used-truck activity for October published by ACT Research. The researchers noted that sales involving used Class 8 trucks – trucks with a gross […]

(Natural News) As bad as the ongoing supply chain crisis has been thus far, it is going to get much worse, according to the world’s global trade barometer Maersk, a Danish company. The company, “one of the world’s largest container shipping firms, on Wednesday posted record profit for the third quarter on the back of […]

(Natural News) Grain shippers have delayed deliveries until later in the year amid uncertainty about when barge traffic will normalize. This has softened the demand for barges, with the St. Louis barge spot rate falling to $72.58 per ton in the week of October 18 from its peak of $105.85 per ton in the week […]

(Natural News) Bakeries across Europe have increased prices of their breads, with many of them attributing it to skyrocketing costs of energy and ingredients. In France, the price of wheat in the country’s central region increased by over 30 percent. Non-edible factors such as the cost of electricity and the price of paper used for […]

(Natural News) The supply of baby formula in the United States has supposedly improved, but parents nationwide are still struggling to find them months after the initial panic ensued. Amber Bergeron, a mother from Louisiana, joined “Fox & Friends First” to share the struggle to find baby formula for her premature twins. She also called out […]

(Natural News) Drought conditions all along the Mississippi River are causing barges and other ships to get stuck at certain junctions of the river, clogging up a critical artery in the American supply chain. The low water is caused by a lack of rain in the Ohio River Valley and the Upper Mississippi. It has […]