The Postal Service hired consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal in recent days to develop a plan, Postmaster General David Steiner said March 4 in an interview.

With ships unable or unwilling to transit the Strait of Hormuz, producers cannot export, supertanker costs are skyrocketing and storage at many Persian Gulf refineries is filling up fast. 

The conflict in the Middle East creates additional unknowns. “The whole issue of supply chain reliability will become more important,” CEO Stefan Paul told journalists on March 3.

Some carriers are canceling bookings temporarily, skipping some port calls, warning of delays and implementing surcharges to transport containers through the conflict zone. 

Thousands of companies are angling for refunds on President Donald Trump’s tariffs, many of which were ruled unconstitutional Feb. 20. Now some retail customers are joining the scrum.

Currently, Maersk operates 65 ground freight facilities in the U.S. The next terminals to open will be smaller than the Fontana site, the spokeswoman said.

Logistics giant FedEx said in a Feb. 26 statement that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them.

A shipowner’s once-in-a-generation wager on oil tankers has made it so powerful that it controls an overwhelming majority of supertankers that can collect American oil next month.

After the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s global tariffs, transportation firms face uncertainty over whether and how billions in collected duties will be refunded.

The majority of five conservative justices said the federal law that generally shields USPS from lawsuits over missing, lost and undelivered mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”