Capacity discipline is cracking just as peak season frontloading kicks in. Carriers are pushing rates, automation money keeps flowing, and the gap between aviation’s net-zero pledge and its fuel reality widened again. Here is what moved across global supply chains overnight.
Operations & 3PL
ID Logistics opened its 50th site in Poland, a 24,000 sqm facility in Wrocław that will serve a major global food manufacturer’s new plant. It is the operator’s third Polish opening since January. Source: Container News
FedEx pilots ratified a four-year labor contract, with 83% voting yes after more than five years at the table. The Air Line Pilots Association deal takes effect June 29. Source: American Shipper
Ewals Cargo Care acquired Vos Transport Group, folding two family-owned road hauliers into one denser European network. The buyer framed it as a long-term play on a more connected continental footprint. Source: Logistics Business
Kuehne+Nagel added a weekly Chicago-to-Frankfurt service to its Inspire Boeing 747-8 freighter network, widening transatlantic air cargo capacity out of the US Midwest. Source: Supply Chain 24/7
Technology & Automation
Standard Bots raised $200 million in venture funding to scale industrial robot production on New York’s Long Island. The round backs a domestic manufacturing buildout aimed at warehouse and factory automation. Source: DC Velocity
PepsiCo and Gatik signed a multi-year deal they call the largest commercial driverless freight deployment to date. Fully autonomous trucks are already running across Texas, Arizona and Arkansas. Source: American Shipper
Amazon will spend more than $10 billion modernizing European fulfillment, rolling out three new robot types and adding 25,000 jobs by the end of the decade. Source: FreightWaves
Fura, the Cincinnati-based AI-powered 3PL, bought LG Logistics Solutions. It is the brokerage’s sixth acquisition, a bet on consolidating a fragmented, manual industry. Source: FreightWaves
Sustainability & Energy
Klaipėda Port opened Lithuania’s first green hydrogen refueling station, an early piece of Baltic port decarbonization infrastructure. Source: Container News
The aviation sector will likely miss its 2050 net-zero target, IATA’s chief warned. More than half the planned decarbonization rides on sustainable aviation fuel, which still covers just 0.8% of airline needs this year. Source: SupplyChainBrain
Fuel is eating logistics margins. US firms now put 29.6% of total budgets toward fuel, more than ever recorded, according to a Tech.co study. Source: DC Velocity
International Markets
Maersk breached its own self-imposed capacity cap as freight rates climb, a sign discipline is loosening when the market pays for more boxes. Source: Container News
Union Pacific does not want Washington taking a stake in its proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern. CEO Jim Vena said the railroad can afford the deal on its own. Source: American Shipper
Trans-Pacific peak season arrived early. June 1 rate hikes and surcharges sent Asia to US West Coast prices up 51% in a week to $4,836 per FEU, with tariff frontloading and Mideast tensions adding pressure. Source: FreightWaves
China formally broke ground on a 77.2 billion yuan (about $11.3 billion) project to clear a Yangtze River chokepoint near the Three Gorges dam, building mega ship locks to move larger vessels. Source: SCMP Business
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