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Cargo Crime Enters the Age of Digital Identity

Cargo crime is shifting from “stealing the truck” toward “stealing the right to collect the load.” A compromised email account, hijacked business phone system, purchased carrier authority or stolen compliance-platform credential can make a criminal appear to be a legitimate trading partner. In that scenario, freight is not necessarily taken by force; the supply chain can be manipulated into handing it over.

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Centralized Clearance: One Processing Point, One Data Flow

Centralized Clearance: One Processing Point, One Data Flow

Faster customs clearance increasingly depends not on the number of counters or officers, but on how data and responsibilities are organized. Since 1 June 2026, Hai Phong has hosted Vietnam Customs' first pilot of centralized clearance: documentary processing is concentrated at one unit, while physical inspection and cargo supervision remain at the border or port.

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Next-Generation Strategic Reserves

Next-Generation Strategic Reserves

For decades, strategic reserves wereassociated mainly with oil, food and fuel. Recent supply-chain shocks have shown that a factory can also stop because it lacks battery-grade graphite, rare earths, gallium, a transformer or one component that cannot be replaced quickly.

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Data Centers: The Physical Supply Chain Behind the “Cloud”

Data Centers: The Physical Supply Chain Behind the “Cloud”

The “cloud” sounds intangible, yet every cloud service, AI application and digital platform depends on highly physical infrastructure. A data center requires servers, racks, fiber, transformers, switchgear, UPS systems, batteries, generators, chillers, liquid-cooling equipment, steel structures and thousands of components delivered in the right sequence.

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Freight Contracts in a Volatile Market

Freight Contracts in a Volatile Market

Container freight rates rarely remain stable long enough for shippers to feel comfortable. On 17 September 2026, Drewry's World Container Index edged up to USD 4,500 per 40ft container, yet the average concealed opposite movements: Shanghai-Los Angeles rose 5%, while Shanghai-Rotterdam fell 9%.

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BSR Broadens Crude Supply, Strengthening Supply-Chain Resilience

BSR Broadens Crude Supply, Strengthening Supply-Chain Resilience

The framework crude oil purchase agreement between BSR and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific, exchanged in New York on September 23, 2026, marks a new step in diversifying feedstock for the Dung Quat Oil Refinery. The agreement adds another international supply channel, expands crude choices and improves resilience to geopolitical and logistics disruptions.

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Strategic Minerals: Small in Volume, Large in Risk

Strategic Minerals: Small in Volume, Large in Risk

An automobile plant may consume tens of thousands of tonnes of steel, yet a very small quantity of magnet rare earths, purified graphite or gallium can determine whether the production line continues to run. That is the paradox of strategic minerals: their physical volume may be small while their economic leverage and supply-chain dependence are enormous.

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Strategic Minerals: Small in Volume, Large in Risk

Strategic Minerals: Small in Volume, Large in Risk

An automobile plant may consume tens of thousands of tonnes of steel, yet a very small quantity of magnet rare earths, purified graphite or gallium can determine whether the production line continues to run. That is the paradox of strategic minerals: their physical volume may be small while their economic leverage and supply-chain dependence are enormous.

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Smart Border Gates: When Cargo Flows Learn to Move on Their Own

Smart Border Gates: When Cargo Flows Learn to Move on Their Own

Road borders have traditionally been places where moving flows must stop for checks: vehicles, cargo, drivers, documents and data. Smart-border models seek to reverse that logic by allowing data to travel ahead of the vehicle, automating identification and control steps, and coordinating cargo flows in real time. When border processes become deeply digital, the objective is not simply faster clearance. It is to transform the border from a bottleneck into an orchestrating node in the supply chain

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Red sea reopens gradually, Hormuz remains constrained

Red sea reopens gradually, Hormuz remains constrained

Two maritime chokepoints in the Middle East are sending opposite signals. In the Red Sea, part of the container fleet is returning through Bab el-Mandeb and the Suez Canal, cutting significant time from Asia-Europe voyages. At the Strait of Hormuz, however, vessel traffic remains sharply reduced and container routes into the Arabian Gulf continue to face severe operating risk.

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Digital product passports: Logistics must learn a new language

Digital product passports: Logistics must learn a new language

On 20 July 2026, the European Union brought the Digital Product Passport Registry into operation, moving the Digital Product Passport from policy concept toward working infrastructure. For logistics, this is not merely about adding a QR code to a package. Products will increasingly be linked to identifiers, material data, compliance information, lifecycle records and supply-chain evidence.

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Battery Passport: When Every Battery Carries Its Own Record

Battery Passport: When Every Battery Carries Its Own Record

Batteries are becoming some of the most complex industrial assets in the electrified economy. From 18 February 2027, the European Union will require every electric-vehicle battery, light means of transport (LMT) battery and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the market or put into service to carry an electronic record - the Battery Passport.

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Humanoids step into the warehouse

Humanoids step into the warehouse

Humanoid robots once belonged mainly to laboratories, trade shows and viral demonstrations. By 2026, a small number have begun performing real work in warehouses and factories, where every technology is judged by uptime, throughput, safety and cost. The important shift is not that these machines look human. It is that they can enter environments designed around the human body and potentially connect the “islands of automation” that purpose-built systems do not easily bridge.

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On-time sailings: the most underrated KPI in ocean freight

On-time sailings: the most underrated KPI in ocean freight

Ocean freight negotiations often begin with the rate. Yet a low rate can become expensive when vessels arrive late, production schedules slip, extra safety stock is required or customers do not receive cargo when promised. As global schedule reliability weakened again in 2026, on-time performance is emerging as a metric that should sit alongside freight rates in every major logistics decision.

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Logistics In The Service Economy

Logistics In The Service Economy

Global trade was once pictured mainly through containers, vessels, factories and visible flows of goods. Today, however, the structure of value creation is shifting toward something less tangible. Services are increasingly embedded in the goods themselves — from design, software, finance and data to insurance, transport and logistics.

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Saigon Newport at Ho Chi Minh City Friendship Dialogue 2026: Mobilizing International Resources for Port and Logistics Development

Saigon Newport at Ho Chi Minh City Friendship Dialogue 2026: Mobilizing International Resources for Port and Logistics Development

The 3rd Ho Chi Minh City Friendship Dialogue 2026 (FD 2026), hosted by the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee under the theme “City Diplomacy – A Driving Force for Innovation and Sustainable Development,” took place from September 10 to 12 in Vung Tau Ward, bringing together nearly 500 delegates representing 36 localities and international delegations. Building on the previous two editions, FD 2026 further expanded in scale, scope and modes of engagement, marking a clear shift from fostering fr

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Logistics for cross-border e-commerce: a new gateway for Vietnamese goods to go global

Logistics for cross-border e-commerce: a new gateway for Vietnamese goods to go global

Cross-border e-commerce is not simply about listing Vietnamese products on international platforms. Behind every small order is a complex logistics chain: fulfilment, customs declaration, air or road transport, sorting, last-mile delivery, returns, tax, data and customer experience. If logistics cannot keep pace, the opportunity of digital exports will be limited at the order execution stage.

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Supply chain as a service: when logistics becomes shared infrastructure for businesses

Supply chain as a service: when logistics becomes shared infrastructure for businesses

For many years, companies had to build or separately rent pieces of their supply chains: warehousing, transport, forwarding, fulfilment, distribution, data and order processing. A new logistics model is emerging: large platforms opening their supply chain infrastructure for other businesses to use as a service. This could mark a major shift in global logistics competition.

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Dung Quat Enters a New EPC Execution Phase

Dung Quat Enters a New EPC Execution Phase

The EPC Contract Kick-off Meeting on August 21, 2026 moved the Dung Quat Oil Refinery Expansion and Upgrade Project from contract signing into execution. With total investment of about VND 36.397 trillion, the project requires not only engineering, procurement and construction excellence, but also transparent and disciplined coordination among BSR, the WOOD-PVE PMC consortium and the Chengda-BPE EPC consortium.

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From Green Pedals to a Journey of Community Connection

From Green Pedals to a Journey of Community Connection

Concluding after two days on August 29-30, 2026, the Saigontourist Group Cycling Festival for the Community 2026 drew more than 1,500 participations across three core activities. Beyond creating a large-scale community sports event, the festival offered an experiential approach that linked cycling with tourism, destinations, green living and practical actions for the community.

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Saigontourist Group: Green wheels connect Sport, Tourism and Community

Saigontourist Group: Green wheels connect Sport, Tourism and Community

Held on August 29-30, 2026, the Saigontourist Group Cycling Festival for the Community 2026 created a series of sporting activities stretching from central Ho Chi Minh City to Can Gio, while suggesting a fresh way to promote destinations through cycling, green living and community responsibility.

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Who's Really Behind the Wheel? Closing the Driver-Identity Gap in Shared Fleets

Who's Really Behind the Wheel? Closing the Driver-Identity Gap in Shared Fleets

Almost every commercial fleet today is fitted with GPS. A manager can see where a vehicle is, how fast it is moving, how long the engine idles and how much fuel it burns. Yet one basic question often goes unanswered: who was actually driving?

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