Walmart plans to fly drone deliveries from an additional 150 stores over the next year in partnership with drone operator Wing, a unit of Alphabet. Its goal is to set up the service at more than 270 of its locations nationwide by the end of 2027, the WSJ Logistics Report’s Liz Young writes.

The effort expands on the retailer’s previously announced plans for drone delivery, which is currently mostly limited to the Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta regions. Walmart plans to add the service over the coming year in cities including Los Angeles, Houston, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Florida. Wing estimates that more than 40 million Walmart shoppers would have access to the service after the expansion, up from roughly 2 million today.

Companies from Walmart and Amazon to delivery app DoorDash have started aerial deliveries in parts of the U.S. over the past several years, though the rollout of the technology has been sporadic and limited to specific regions. Operators have contended with regulatory obstacles; community worries about noise, safety and privacy; and weather constraints.

• Google introduced new tools to help retailers deploy AI agents for shopping and customer support. (WSJ)
• China completed the maiden flight of the Tianma-1000, an unmanned, mid-altitude, low-cost aircraft capable of logistics and emergency responses. (The Straits Times)

The head of the logistics unit of his family’s Adani Group conglomerate tells the WSJ Logistics Report’s Paul Berger that he wants to expand regionally, with a focus on India and around the Indian Ocean. This contrasts with rivals such as DP World that are expanding globally.

In recent years, the company acquired terminals in Haifa, Israel; Tanzania’s Port of Dar es Salaam; Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo; and a coal-export hub in North Queensland, Australia. Adani is working to build a terminal at Vietnam’s Da Nang Port and is looking at potential terminals in the Philippines, Indonesia and Oman.

The U.S. military seized a fifth oil tanker and continues to monitor other vessels trying to evade the Trump administration’s blockade of tankers under sanctions traveling to and from Venezuela. With five vessels now seized, the world’s fleet of so-called shadow tankers are quickly hoisting a new flag: the Russian tricolor.

Their hope is that by operating under the flag of a country with a strong navy they might be able to skirt the U.S. blockade and avoid interception, the Journal’s Costas Paris, Joe Wallace and Benoit Faucon write. It doesn’t appear to be working. Moscow sent ships to escort another tanker, known as Bella 1, which was sailing under a sloppily painted Russian flag on its hull. The U.S. seized the tanker last Wednesday.

In the past two weeks alone, as the blockade intensified, more than 15 tankers involved in shipping oil under sanction swapped flags to fly Russia’s, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence. Twenty-five tankers were reflagged to Russia in the final three months of 2025, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. The legitimacy of these midvoyage changes under international maritime law isn’t clear.

• Trump pressed oil-company executives to drill into Venezuela’s bounties, but officials from the largest firms not already involved there stopped short of pledging to quickly invest. (WSJ)
• South Africa is hosting naval exercises with Iranian, Russian and Chinese warships, risking further U.S. disapproval. (WSJ)
• Vitol was expected to load the first cargo of naphtha–used to thin heavy crude oil–from the U.S. to Venezuela under a new supply agreement. (Reuters)

• Employers added 50,000 jobs in December, below economists’ expectations, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%. (WSJ)
• The U.S. consumer-confidence index rose slightly to 54 in January, up from 52.9, though Americans remain anxious about affordability and sluggish hiring, the University of Michigan’s latest survey indicated. (WSJ)
• President Trump unveiled new housing proposals concentrated on helping home buyers and lowering mortgage rates. (WSJ)
• Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.8% in December, a 0.3-percentage-point increase, despite 8,200 net jobs added. (WSJ)
• China’s consumer inflation picked up modestly in December, while factory-gate prices remained in contraction. (WSJ)
• Taiwan’s exports reached a record high in 2025, powered by robust demand from the global AI boom. (WSJ)
• Germany’s industrial output unexpectedly rose for a third straight month in November, helped by a rebound in car production. (WSJ)
• Eurozone retail sales rose in November, providing a boost for the economy despite continued caution among consumers. (WSJ)
• EU countries approved a trade deal with the South America's Mercosur nations. (WSJ)
• New York Attorney General Letitia James filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration over its halt of the Empire Wind and Sunrise Wind projects. (WSJ)
• Meta Platforms unveiled agreements that would make it an anchor customer for new and existing nuclear power for its AI data centers. (WSJ)
• Seaboard Marine is restarting a weekly service linking Savannah to the Caribbean and South America as the Georgia port gets ready to open a new customs facility for cold-chain shippers. (Journal of Commerce)
• Germany’s finance minister said the country was open to taking “joint action” with partners to strengthen supply chains and ensure access to critical materials. (Bloomberg)
• The threat level for maritime traffic in the Strait of Malacca is unchanged despite robberies surging by 75% last year to the highest in 19 years, with most incidents deemed to be minor. (Lloyd’s List)
• The U.S. Postal Service will resume delivering some UPS Ground Saver parcels after a new agreement was completed. (SupplyChainDive)
• Avkha Equity Holdings acquired Minnesota trucking firm 0, which had been privately held by the Oren family for 90 years. (Transit Topics)
• DSV agreed to sell USA Truck to UTAC, a private group of current and former executives of the Arkansas carrier. (Commercial Carrier Journal)

Mark R. Long is editor of WSJ Logistics Report. Reach him at mark.long@wsj.com. Follow the WSJ Logistics Report team on LinkedIn: Mark R. Long, Liz Young and Paul Berger.