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Refund eligibility does not mean refund readiness. CBP’s planned CAPE portal is expected to open in phases, and missing ACH enrollment or poor entry-level records can delay payment even if the underlying IEEPA duties were unlawful.

AIS data in the Strait of Hormuz may be underreporting actual vessel traffic by as much as 50%, according to a field investigation by Citrini Research corroborated by multiple maritime intelligence firms. Ships are going dark, spoofing GPS, broadcasting false identities, and duplicating the codes of scrapped vessels. For logistics teams relying on AIS-derived tracking, ETA estimates, and congestion models, the gap between what dashboards show and what is actually happening in the Gulf has become operationally significant. This post explains what is being manipulated, why it matters beyond energy trading, and what logistics teams should factor in.

Every major container carrier now has an active emergency fuel surcharge, and since March, the surcharge wave has expanded into inland and intermodal transport across the US, Canada, and Europe. This post tracks what changed carrier by carrier, where the inland cost exposure sits, and what shippers should verify before their next booking.

You don’t need perfect costing systems to build a useful cost-to-serve model. This SCM manager playbook shows a minimum viable CTS approach using real drivers (orders, touches, shipments, exceptions) and “good enough” unit costs to rank customer/lane segments into green/yellow/red—and turn the result into concrete governance decisions.