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Intra-Asia rates continue to rise year-on-year, as major ports are congested amid the early peak ...

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Comment: ‘You are not a business, but a cost line on someone else’s P&L’

Keep on trucking USPS

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News / Network restructuring cascading larger vessels onto Intra-Europe trades

Container lines are increasingly deploying larger vessels on intra-Europe routes, with the number of ships ...

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News / Cold storage crunch eases as vacancy rates hit 20-year high and supply dries up

Vacancy rates in the cold storage sector are at historically high rates. The development pipeline ...

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More shipper pain on the way as carriers levy new peak season surcharges

Air freight rates stay high, despite recovering capacity and easing fuel costs

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Opportunities are in the offing for forwarders and logistics operators, as the EU and the ...

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News / EXCLUSIVE: CargoWise users hit by global outage in 'major incident'

CargoWise customers around the world reported being unable to access the platform for around two ...

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General cargo imports have emerged as the main driver of air freight demand on the ...

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News / DP World enter US market with new box terminal at Corpus Christi

DP World looks set to finally break into the US market after entering into an ...

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News / Ennore port plan for second box terminal attracts major carriers

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News / More shipper pain on the way as carriers levy new peak season surcharges

Ocean carriers have continued their flurry of surcharge and rate increase announcements, which “continue to ...

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News / Chinese hi-tech exports to the US surged following Trump's court tariff defeat

Chinese containerised exports to the US have outperformed those of other Asian origins after tariffs ...

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Comment / Is the 'peak season' an outdated concept?

Should the whole concept of a peak season be discarded as global container supply chains ...

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News / Challenge joins India cargo rush as Europe-bound demand stays strong

Challenge Group is expanding its presence in India and China with new freighter services from ...

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News / Bangladesh removes foreign ownership cap on ICDs to attract investment

Bangladesh has scrapped the long-standing cap on foreign ownership of inland container depots (ICDs) and ...

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People / Rhenus appoints Scott Dudley to run air and sea forwarding in the UK

German freight forwarder Rhenus has appointed Scott Dudley (above) as managing director of Air & ...