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News / Geodis secures China-Europe air freight capacity amid Q4 availability fears

Geodis is the latest in an increasingly long list of forwarders to secure air freight ...

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News / Another new China-Europe multimodal sea-rail service launches next month

Next month Russian Railways subsidiary JSC and Belintertrans-Germany (BIT-Germany) launch a multimodal sea-rail service from ...

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News / Covid cargo surge brings Air New Zealand respite in one of its worst years

As cargo helps New Zealand’s flag-carrier make a comeback, efforts are underway to ensure sufficient ...

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News / New funding allows food specialist Silo to aim higher and expand

Perishable food supply chain start-up Silo has raised $9m in a second fundraising. In a little ...

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People / Former Agilty chief Essa al-Saleh is new chairman of Volta Trucks

Former Agility Logistics CEO Essa al-Saleh (pictured above) has been named as the new chairman ...

Magaya acquires freight rate management provider Catapult

Company News

23 000 teu CMA CGM Jacques Saade enters service: the first in the LNG-powered boxship

Maersk and IB Cargo to offer tailored logistics solutions for IKEA in Romania

CEVA Logistics expands in Thailand with new ocean station at Laem Chabang

Saudia Cargo adds a 747-400F, bringing the total number of freighters to seven

AF/KLM/MP Cargo upgrades Schiphol Pharma Hub to transport Covid-19 vaccines

Champ Cargosystems and Air Cargo Belgium sign MoU

Gebrüder Weiss launches myGW customer portal

Transporeon partners with Ortec to offer customers optimised solutions

XPO Logistics provides UK Border Force with single-source solution for transport and warehousing

Aramex enters partnership with Transportr to manage Ittihad Group’s sea volumes

Delta and LATAM receive approval in Brazil for joint venture agreement

Cargolux adds Shenzhen to its global network

Mizzen and Maxamation launch Plimsoll.io after winning Ocean of Opportunities challenge

New rail link between Oslo and port of Gothenburg opens

Connect Corporate Finance launches to help freight business owners complete M&A deals

Recommends / Maersk calls for action as stranded seafarer roll call hits 400,000

Major companies are now getting involved in the seafarer crisis. Maersk, Unilever and Procter & ...

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People / Hellmann takes on Panalpina automotive specialist Monika Thielemann-Hald

Monika Thielemann-Hald (pictured) has joined Hellmann Worldwide Logistics as global head of automotive logistics, succeeding ...

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Premium / Supply chain radar: Peak season – 'If you ain’t ready now, you will never be'

Comment: “If you ain’t ready now, you will never be.” The first time I heard that phrase ...

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News / Airline alliances a shadow of their former selves, but cargo flies

Six months into the Covid-19 era, airline networks are still a shadow of their former ...

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News / Charter market still soaring, with 'owners seeing dollar signs now'

A further 65 vessels, for a total of 155,350 teu, have found employment in the ...

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Comment / UK government KAPs it all with its plan to solve post-Brexit truck queues

It is a common refrain among political sketch writers that writing satire is virtually dead ...

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News / CMA CGM breaks into air freight with 30% stake in French airline group

CMA CGM has entered the air freight transport sector, agreeing to purchase a 30% stake ...

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News / 'Re-commerce' a new opportunity as supply chains struggle with online returns

Between $250bn and $350bn of returned e-commerce products are just laying around, according to Tony ...

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News / US shippers feel the pain as rail and road freight rates soar

US importers and domestic shippers are facing more pain from increasing road and rail freight ...

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Premium / M&A radar: Lineage Logistics – bite-sized acquisition strategy leaves its mark

Comment: Last week’s announcement that Lineage Logistics had raised $1.6bn in a new investment round went ...

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People / Rail freight specialist Ian Wilson to lead intermodal development team at Forth Ports

UK-based Forth Ports has appointed rail freight expert Ian Wilson (pictured above) as its new ...

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Premium / Market insight: Coming soon: Ceva loads the C-suite with new exec from Hellmann

Comment: Nowadays some jokingly refer to Ceva Logistics as “Panalceva” because of a string of powerful ...

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News / Felixstowe brings back former chief Chris Lewis as lines introduce port surcharges

Ocean carriers are introducing port congestion surcharges for shippers using the UK’s biggest container port ...

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News / Gefco says cyber attack on its system was 'designed to disrupt our business'

Gefco has admitted that it came under an external cyberattack last Sunday, “designed to disrupt ...

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News / Fury as UK government looks to blame predicted Brexit chaos on logistics sector

The UK government is “making villains of key workers” in logistics according to forwarders, as ...

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News / Container shortage crisis spreads to India delaying exports

A container shortage in India is causing long delays for exporters, especially on US trades. Earlier ...

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Comment / KLM: 'Importers, are you winning a battle, but losing the war?'

This opaque question is the headline of an ad placed by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ...

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News / Lines refuse Bangladeshi DG imports as shippers caught in Navy/ Customs catch-22

Chittagong shippers are finding it increasingly difficult to get dangerous goods (DG) import containers released ...