A federal official tossed out results from an Amazon unionization vote for warehouse workers in Alabama and says the vote will have to be held again. (WSJ)
A measure of U.S. inflation rose in October at the fastest pace in 31 years. (MarketWatch)
Germany's annual inflation rate reached 6% in November. (Dow Jones Newswires)
Nissan plans to spend $17.6 billion over the next five years as it adds 20 battery-powered vehicles to its lineup. (WSJ)
Intel has been storing legacy technology for security research at a secret warehouse in Costa Rica. (WSJ)
Small U.S. manufacturers have been seeking suppliers closer to their factories to get around supply-chain logjams. (New York Times)
Automotive semiconductor inventories are increasing for the first time in nine months in a sign the chip shortage is easing. (Nikkei Asia)
California health care facilities are seeing shortages of critical medical supplies. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The U.K.’s Asda supermarket chain chartered a vessel to ensure it could get its Christmas goods in time for the holiday. (The Guardian)
Urban Outfitters is pulling forward orders and buying more raw fabrics to lock in prices and protect against backlogs. (Supply Chain Dive)
JLL estimates the U.S. may need another 1 billion square feet of warehouse capacity by 2025 to meet demand. (CNBC)
U.S. mayors are scrambling for meetings with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as billions of dollars in infrastructure funding become available. (McClatchy)
BP plans to establish hydrogen fuel production for the transport sector in northern England before 2025. (ShippingWatch)
Container shipping lines are warning that feeder operations in China’s Pearl River Delta will decline sharply because of Covid-19 restrictions. (The Loadstar)
Car carrier Wallenius Wilhelmsen named Torvald Klaveness CEO Lasse Kristoffersen as its chief executive. (Lloyd’s List)
Truckload carrier Werner Enterprises bought last-mile delivery specialist NEHDS Logistics for $64 million. (Dow Jones Newswires)
Trucker TFI International acquired Missouri-based refrigerated transport specialist D&D Sexton. (Today’s Trucking)
British trucker J&J Ashcroft entered the U.K. version of bankruptcy protection. (Motor Transport)
An Indian company is opening a restaurant on a Bangladeshi freighter that ran aground on India’s East Coast in 2020. (Maritime Executive)
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