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The South African Association of Ship Operations and Agents (Saasoa) says any protracted industrial action by Transnet employees could see plant shutdowns and a scale down in productivity,…

Texas governor Greg Abbott backed down on extra inspections for vehicles from part of Mexico on Wednesday as a domestic US clash over immigration policy created delays threatening…

WASHINGTON—Lawmakers pressed for solutions to the Internal Revenue Service’s paperwork backlog, which continues delaying millions of refunds from tax year 2020 and slowing taxpayers’ ability…

WASHINGTON—The third tax-filing season during the coronavirus pandemic is set to begin soon with more delays, uncertainty and frustration likely for taxpayers and tax preparers.There will be…

In the most consumptive nation on Earth, Black Friday in the U.S. has long been viewed as the ultimate looking glass: reflecting all that is good, bad and so-so about the world’s largest…

Trevor Bidelman typically works from 7am to 3pm at a Kellogg cereal plant in Battle Creek, Michigan. But recently, he has been working late into the night four or five days a…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A plane flies over a Bombardier plant in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on January 21, 2014. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo By Allison Lampert and Sanjana…

The Biden administration has secured pledges from Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours in a bid to ease supply chain bottlenecks that are weighing down the US and…

European manufacturing updatesSign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about European manufacturing news. From shoemakers to car companies, the gap between the…

HP Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc. are seeing demand for computers outpacing their ability to satisfy customer orders as shortages and supply-chain issues hold back sales…