Descartes Systems Group bought two logistics software companies in eight days. Logistics software M&A did not start with AI, but AI changed what acquirers buy. And what that means for your next TMS contract.
Hapag-Lloyd signed an agreement on 19 August to acquire 25% of APM Terminals Maasvlakte II in Rotterdam. Six days later Linerlytica counted a record 4.3m TEU of containership capacity waiting to berth worldwide. Both events rest on the same economics. Terminal utilisation across the industry is set at a level that cannot absorb a shock.
On 12 August 2026 President Lula signed Decree 13,094. Brazil now has rules for the aviation fuel part of its Fuel of the Future law, two years after the law itself passed. Most of the coverage read this as Brazil opening for business. It is not that simple. Do all Brazilian SAF production routes clear for European legislation?
Almost all of the Sustainable Airline Fuel (SAF) sold today is made from used cooking oil. That oil is becoming harder to buy, and China is the main reason. SAF production paths differ in how exposed they are to feedstock costs, and in how much of the supply chain the producer controls. The part left uncontrolled now runs through China.
A company can create value in two ways. It lowers what something costs to produce, or it raises what customers are willing to pay. Everything else lands in one of those two columns, or it was activity dressed up as value. That makes AI value creation in supply chain testable rather than a matter of belief. MVAventures investigated two weeks of AI developments in the news.
The past two weeks produced a run of milestones in renewable marine and aviation fuels. Read in isolation, each one looks like progress. Read together with the pricing and supply data from the same period, they describe a market that is proving its technology far faster than its economics. For a business built around low-carbon fuels, that gap is where the real work sits.
Today, less than 0.5% of aviation fuel is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The EU has mandated that by 2050 aviation within its jurisdiction must reach 70% SAF — and that gap is not just a climate problem. It is the largest fuel supply transformation in the history of commercial aviation, and Brazil can seize this opportunity to meet the SAF challenge.
AI analytics in the supply chain are revealing something many manufacturing and wholesale leaders have suspected for years: upto 50% of logistics cost is concealed.
In the fast-paced world of logistics, digital twins in warehouse management are transforming how facilities operate, driving efficiency, safety, sustainability and agility. By bridging the physical and digital worlds, digital twins enable managers to optimize operations and reduce costs. At the same time, they meet the dynamic demands of modern commerce, particularly in e-commerce.
The global aviation sector is under immense pressure to decarbonize, with Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at the center of this transformation. SAF is rapidly evolving from a niche innovation to a core pillar of aviation’s climate strategy. Why SAF demand accelerates now is due to a convergence of regulatory mandates, climate finance initiatives, and public scrutiny of airline emissions.