General Motors couldn’t deliver nearly 100,000 vehicles in the second quarter because it lacked computer chips and other parts. (WSJ)
Tesla’s vehicle deliveries tumbled nearly 18% from the first quarter to the second quarter. (WSJ)
Chinese automaker Geely bought smartphone manufacturer Meizu Technology. (WSJ)
China ordered nearly 300 jets from Airbus on behalf of three of its biggest airlines in the country’s first major aircraft purchase since the pandemic. (WSJ)
Pilots at Scandinavia’s SAS launched a strike that the airline said will hobble operations. (WSJ)
Russia took control of the international consortium behind the giant Sakhalin-2 oil-and-natural-gas project. (WSJ)
The U.S. allowed an oil tanker from a Russian port to unload its cargo in New Orleans, concluding that it hadn’t breached sanctions. (WSJ)
Alcoa shut down one of its three smelting lines at an Indiana plant because of operational challenges. (Dow Jones Newswires)
California trucking groups say the Supreme Court’s decision to allow new state restrictions on driver classification will take tens of thousands of truck drivers off the road. (Transport Dive)
Texas will add cross-border truck inspection checkpoints after dozens of migrants were found dead in a tractor-trailer. (Texas Tribune)
Furniture retailer La-Z-Boy has made “structural changes” across its supply chain to shorten lead times and clear a large backlog. (Supply Chain Dive)
A new logistics network for Russian oil shipments is developing using “dark ship-to-ship operations” at several transit points.(Lloyd’s List)
J.B. Hunt launched its own ocean container service between Asia and the Pacific Northwest using vessels chartered from Swire Shipping. (Maritime Executive)
The Port of Oakland cut the free time for containers waiting on docks from seven days to four days. (CNBC)
A record of more than 100 liquefied natural gas carriers were ordered in the first half of 2022. (TradeWinds)
CMA CGM is cutting freight rates for its French customers by 10% starting August 1. (Journal of Commerce)
Delta Air Lines will pay $10.5 million to settle charges that it falsified information about international mail delivery for the U.S. Postal Service. (Associated Press)
Volga Dnepr-owned AirBridgeCargo wants to return 14 Boeing 747 freighters to foreign leasing companies and has terminated dozens of European staffers. (Air Cargo News)
Three labor unions ratified contract agreements with Canadian Pacific Railway. (Progressive Railroading)
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