U.S. housing starts surged 6.3% in June to the highest level since March. (MarketWatch)
Consumer-products supplier Unilever is facing controversy over Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling ice cream in Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and contested East Jerusalem. (WSJ)
Salesforce says U.S. retailers will spend $223 billion more procuring goods in the second half of 2021 than in the same period in 2020. (CNBC)
Procter & Gamble is studying robotics to develop faster and more cost-effective ways to package and handle products. (Reuters)
BNSF has started restricting intermodal rail shipments from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago. (Trains)
Some 565 dry-bulk vessels are anchored off China’s congested ports waiting to unload, with average delays running about 10 days. (Lloyd’s List)
New Covid lockdowns in Vietnam are leading to a growing backlog of ships off the country’s ports. (Splash 247)
U.S. regulators plan to audit container lines’ billing records for detention and demurrage charges. (Journal of Commerce)
GMS Leadership says ship scrapping prices breached $600 per metric ton, more than double the level at the end of last year. (TradeWinds)
Cosco Shipping Energy Transportation projects a steep decline in profit on sliding oil transport revenues. (Dow Jones Newswires)
British retailers Sainsbury’s and Tesco are raising supplier delivery charges as capacity-constrained trucking companies increase their rates. (Motor Transport)
Average world-wide airfreight rates are down 10% since May. (Lloyd’s Loading List)
U.S. trucking fleets are rushing toward leasing deals as the chip shortage hampers new-vehicle production. (Commercial Carrier Journal)
Hydrogen fuel-cell truck maker Hyzon Motors went public in a merger with a blank-check company. (Transport Dive)
Berlin-based Choco raised $100 million in a Series B funding round backing its technology aimed at digitizing food procurement. (TechCrunch)
Uber Eats will start delivering groceries out of 1,200 Albertsons supermarkets across the U.S. (Supermarket News)
Summer camps across New Hampshire are struggling to maintain food stocks amid uneven supplier deliveries. (Concord Monitor)
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