Insights
Industry insights, integration guides, and product updates from the CXTMS team.
Tariff-Adjusted Landed Cost Is Replacing Unit Price as the Sourcing Metric That Actually Matters
Tariff-adjusted landed cost gives procurement, logistics, and finance a shared way to model duties, refunds, transportation, inventory, and compliance risk before sourcing decisions lock in fragile assumptions.
CXTMS InsightsMay 19, 20266 min read
Turkey’s Europe-Gulf Corridor Plan Could Give Shippers a New Middle Corridor Option
Turkey’s proposed Europe-to-Gulf rail and road corridor gives shippers another reason to treat Eurasian routing as a resilience exercise, not a shortcut around disruption.
CXTMS InsightsMay 19, 2026 · 6 min read
Union Pacific’s Domestic Steel Rail Contract Makes Rail Infrastructure a Supply Chain Story
Union Pacific’s seven-year domestic steel rail contract shows why physical rail infrastructure, sourcing resilience, and intermodal service reliability now belong in shipper risk planning.
CXTMS InsightsMay 19, 2026 · 6 min read
Alaska Is Becoming a Strategic Logistics Edge, Not Just a Remote Freight Challenge
Alaska's air cargo, energy, port, and remote-freight networks show why Arctic logistics now belongs in strategic supply chain planning.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Shippers Are Moving Back Toward Asset-Based Carriers. Reliability Is Beating Pure Rate Shopping.
Shippers are favoring asset-based truckload carriers as capacity tightens, transportation prices rise, and reliability becomes more valuable than short-term rate shopping.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Canada’s Plan to Double Its Power Grid Is Really a Heavy-Haul Supply Chain Story
Canada’s plan to double grid capacity by 2050 will test heavy-haul transport, port access, permitting, supplier sequencing, and project logistics visibility.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 6 min read
CPKC and CSX’s Southeast-Mexico Rail Route Is a Nearshoring Test for Intermodal Execution
CPKC and CSX’s improved Southeast-Mexico rail service shows why nearshoring logistics will depend on intermodal reliability, border coordination, and exception visibility.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Cuba’s Critical Fuel Shortage Shows Why Energy Logistics Needs Political-Risk Playbooks
Cuba’s critical oil and diesel shortage shows why shippers need fuel-risk playbooks for trucking capacity, ports, cold chain, sourcing, and surcharges.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 7 min read
Dollar Tree’s Arizona DC Shows Retail Resilience Is Becoming a Transit-Time Problem
Dollar Tree’s new Arizona distribution center shows why retail logistics resilience now depends on regional transit-time control, store density, and execution visibility.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 7 min read
EPR Reporting Will Fail Without Better Product Data and Traceability
Extended producer responsibility reporting is becoming a logistics data challenge built on product IDs, packaging attributes, shipment records, and returns traceability.
CXTMS InsightsMay 18, 2026 · 7 min read