The rapid acceleration of the global energy transition has placed unprecedented pressure on supply chain operators to manage the complex lifecycle of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries. As the maritime world aligns with the development of new green corridors, companies like CEVA Logistics and CMA
Why This Roundup Matters Now Six months after a fatal MD-11F crash prompted an Emergency Airworthiness Directive, FedEx signaled a May restart for its 29 parked tri-jets—and the industry took notice. This roundup gathers insight from safety auditors, operations chiefs, pilots, shippers, maintenance
Rohit Laila has spent decades building and tuning supply chains that balance speed, cost, and resilience. He’s led network shifts, overseen automation rollouts, and stayed close to the shop floor—from the hum of sorters to the cadence of dock doors. With a 2 million–square-foot distribution center
Relentless delivery windows, tighter audits, and rising energy costs have turned every minute of warehouse downtime into a measurable liability, and operators have responded by tightening workforce competency while installing access systems that fail safely and recover fast. The strategy has been
From pilots to prime time, a new operational threshold crystalized the shift: millions of verified robot tasks, sustained uptime across campuses, warehouses, and sidewalks, and measurable media reach turned autonomy from showcase to staple in day-to-day operations. The signal was not novelty but
Rohit Laila has spent decades in the trenches of supply chain and delivery, building and operating systems that have to work every single day, at scale. He’s equally at home on a dock floor listening to a sorter hum as he is in a war room studying dashboards. In this conversation, he shares how AI
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