How the FMC plans to enforce the Ocean Shipping Reform Act in 2023

The nation’s top ocean regulator is preparing to ramp up investigations into carriers this year following a tumultuous two years of congestion and high fees in the shipping industry.

The Federal Maritime Commission is currently working through more than 200 complaints against carriers, Commissioner Carl Bentzel said in an interview with Supply Chain Dive. And despite easing congestion at U.S. ports, shippers continue to note that they are being denied...

4 Manufacturing Industry Trends in 2023

Every year there’s always new industry trends that make an impact in manufacturing and 2023 is no exception. Of course, safety and employee health remain top of mind. Most manufacturers have created environments that protect their workforce from COVID as best as possible, and policies are in place should someone test positive. But as pandemic-related policies become commonplace, we’ve outlined four trends that are showing up in manufacturing this year.

1. Moving to Cloud-Based ERPs

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems help manufacturers manage facility operations and can include anything from payroll to production. It’s a centralized method that gives leaders insights into the business and helps create efficiencies throughout. Because ERPs can help reduce costs, automate processes, and provide real-time information, they’re in almost every manufacturing facility...

Will machine learning help us find extraterrestrial life?

Researchers have applied a deep learning technique to a previously studied dataset of nearby stars and uncovered eight previously unidentified signals of interest.

When pondering the probability of discovering technologically advanced extraterrestrial life, the question that often arises is, "if they're out there, why haven't we found them yet?" And often, the response is that we have only searched a tiny portion of the galaxy. Further, algorithms developed decades ago for the earliest digital computers can be outdated and inefficient when applied to modern petabyte-scale datasets.

Now, research published in Nature Astronomy and led by an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Peter Ma, along with researchers from the SETI Institute, Breakthrough Listen and scientific research institutions around the world...