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Loss, liability and insurance exposure created for shippers and carriers by theft at logistics chokepoints.
Veridion says more than 70% of its revenue already comes from US customers, and the $20M led by Hoxton Ventures mostly pays to double a US team at a company of just over 60 people worldwide.
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The Consultative Shipping Group's 18 member authorities say chaos at sea is splitting shipping into a tier run by rules and a tier run by opacity, and the single quantity behind that warning is chair Brian Wessel's 20% of tankers.
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A Foreign Affairs essay argues the May strategic stability consensus is holding, and the same essay concedes that Beijing never expected it to stop new listings from landing, which is the part supply chain planning has to absorb.
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Nexperia says nothing operational has changed, and that reads as true, but a court has immobilised about $300m of its own subsidiary stakes until August 2029, which is the horizon a sourcing plan now carries.
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Washington declined to renew USMCA on July 1, 2026, replacing it with annual reviews and two bilateral tracks. Mexico's economy minister says he expects parity with whatever Canada signs.
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The Panama Canal Authority cuts daily transits from 36 to 34 on Sept. 3 and to 32 on Sept. 15 after a 34% rainfall shortfall. Booked ships keep their slots; everyone else queues or bids.
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A missile security squadron says DJI's radio signatures and flight behavior cannot be reproduced by a rival airframe or a simulator. That is a fidelity admission with procurement consequences.
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AI cameras and a multi-agency task force caught three men stripping CSX containers. The loss economics behind that response matter more than the arrests.
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