A record shortage of truck drivers is now throttling the world’s trade, and this time it will not fix itself when the economy turns. Umberto de Pretto, who runs...
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Brussels is spending billions to route Asian trade around Russia and a war-torn Iran. Much of the cargo still takes the Russian road anyway. Kazakh President Kassym...