Analyst Insight: The growth of e-commerce has skyrocketed beyond the ordering of small items such as books, apparel and electronics. Today, customers are ordering furniture, exercise equipment and other large items, and they’re are expecting the same delivery experience as if they were receiving smaller goods. The need for specialized service in the last-mile delivery of
One of the world’s biggest pea processors is considering expanding into fava beans as the boom in alternative proteins fuels demand for special crops. France’s Roquette Freres SA is exploring processing the beans as consumers increasingly turn toward plant-based meats as well as substitute proteins in sports nutrition drinks and other beverages, said Jean-Philippe Azoulay,
When will ocean carriers shed their obsession with vessel size? Not anytime soon, according to one economist. For decades now, carriers have been introducing progressively bigger containerships into the oceangoing trades. The largest vessel in 1970 was 1,800 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); by 2014 it had surpassed 18,000 TEU. Currently the record is held by