Food Logistics features key findings from Descartes’ latest global shipping report, including December’s 0.4% gain in U.S. import volumes over November 2023 and that overall volumes in 2023 were beyond what the market anticipated last January.

AJOT covers Descartes’ latest global shipping report for logistics and supply chain professionals, which shows December U.S. container imports were down 9.2% from the year before but up 0.4% from November 2023, leaving annual U.S. import volume down 11.7% last year compared with 2022.

Forbes speaks to Descartes’ Jackson Wood for insights into new CBP enforcement paradigms—with greater penalties and repercussions—to prevent imports of goods manufactured, produced or mined with forced labor under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.