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Shaking Up the Week’s Logistics Moves: ☕ Cargoccino 12.10.2025

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Bite-sized supply chain news brewed for busy logistics teams.

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Holiday Shopping Keeps Freight Activity Steady 🎁

The holiday rush is humming at full frequency. Stores are seeing healthy traffic, yet the shoppers filling the aisles are hesitant. They are discerning and increasingly inclined to hold out for the eleventh-hour discount.

Because retailers ordered their stock cautiously this year to hedge against tariffs, creating uneven inventories, the pressure on the logistics network has intensified. There is simply no room for a late truck. Meanwhile, carriers and 3PLs are already looking past the holidays with a certain dread of the January return wave. This post-festive reflex has calcified into a second peak, frequently overwhelming a system that was never quite built for the backward flow of goods.

Source: The bucknellian

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The U.S. Opens a Food Supply Chain Investigation

Washington has turned a forensic eye toward the labyrinthine journey of the American meal. Federal officials are currently parsing the intricacies of transportation bottlenecks, the tangled web of sourcing, and the thermal integrity of the cold chain, all in a bid to diagnose the cost pressures and frailties hidden within the national larder. Even in the absence of new regulation, this sort of high-level scrutiny tends to have a gravitational pull of its own.

It quietly compels distributors, carriers, and major retailers to recalibrate their preparations for seasonal surges and those inevitable, chaotic disruptions.

Source: Semafor

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Flexing Weekly MQCs Gets Easier With Laneway

A new platform called Laneway introduces a way for shippers to buy or sell weekly capacity reservations tied to their existing carrier contracts. When weekly volume stretches beyond a contracted MQC, shippers can temporarily add guaranteed space without entering the spot market.

If production softens, they can release the space back into circulation.

Carriers see steadier utilization, and logistics teams gain a more flexible tool for handling unpredictable demand.

Source: JOC

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🚢 First Scheduled Box Service Returns to the Suez Canal

CMA-CGM has steered a scheduled container service back through the Suez Canal. This marks one of the first genuine returns to the waterway since the long trek around Africa became the industry’s defensive standard.

The restoration of this shortcut offers a profound relief to logistics planners bridging Asia and Europe. They have spent months contending with the friction of extended voyages and the heavy burn of fuel, all while struggling to maintain schedules that had been pulled taut by the geography of avoidance.

Source: AirCargo News

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Boeing Brings Spirit AeroSystems Back Inside the House

Boeing has finalized an act of expensive corporate contrition by bringing Spirit AeroSystems back in-house. This acquisition reverses a decades-old decision to spin off the very factories that build the fuselages. It appears the financial allure of outsourcing critical aerostructures eventually lost its shine in the face of the stark reality of quality control.

It is a massive industrial homecoming, yet it is not without its complications. The Spirit facilities dedicated to non-Boeing projects are being shuffled off to new owners. This tidies up a complex custody arrangement and reshapes the global map of wing and body production.

Source: Reuters

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China Shares New Details on a Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ship

China State Shipbuilding Corporation has released more information about its thorium-powered molten salt reactor vessel, a design intended to carry more than 25,000 containers with continuous onboard electric propulsion.

The concept points toward long-haul operations with fewer refueling constraints and potentially steadier voyage economics. It is still early, with regulatory and insurance questions ahead, but the announcement adds momentum to a new wave of propulsion experimentation.

Source: Interesting Engineering

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☕ What Is Brewing at BlueCargo ☕

A WIN has been secured at BlueCargo; we will disclose the particulars next week.

In the interim, our Marketing team is preparing a new inventory of branded swags for the 2026 conference circuit, including Manifest, RILA LINK, and TPM26, which we expect will meet your approval. Let's schedule a conversation for one of the conferences, as it remains the surest way to secure your share of the keepsakes.