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Premium / African demand + capacity = import explosion feeding container growth

Comment: Terminals and more terminals

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News / Forwarders face margin squeeze as growth cools and disruption persists

The global freight forwarding market is still growing, but the industry’s easy gains appear to ...

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News / DHL restores Gulf network, but airlines stay wary after latest strikes

The recovery of air cargo operations in the Gulf has been thrown into fresh uncertainty ...

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Premium / Norfolk Southern's COO quit mid-merger – nobody's asking the right question

Comment: Leadership bench optimized for integration, but if the deal falls apart…

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News / Importers race to beat the deadline for looming EU ecommerce fee

The EU’s planned introduction of a €3 fee for low-value ecommerce shipments from 1 July ...

A wave of container spot rate rises amid peak season and tight capacity

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Now it's forwarders 'behaving badly' as well as carriers

Ceva's next CEO faces a different challenge – integration, not expansion

Gemini carriers set for market share grab on Asia-Mediterranean

India-Gulf container rates plunge as capacity returns and cargo backlogs ease

MSC becomes first carrier to break 20% global market share barrier

Asian operators and shipowners spearhead more feeder ordering

Near-record transpac spot rate surge a 'harbinger of instability', says Sea-Intelligence

Tech / Humanoid robots in logistics – 'huge opportunities', but not in warehouses yet

Since May, travellers through Tokyo’s Haneda Airport may have seen a new type of worker ...

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People / Geodis taps supply chain veteran Eric Gerbi to lead forwarding business

Geodis has drafted in long-serving executive Eric Gerbi to head its Global Freight Forwarding division, ...

Alpega Group and Wakeo Formalise Strategic Alliance to Deliver Unified Transport Intelligence to Shippers Worldwide

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Hive Connect Summer Buzz Celebrates The Supply Chain

Yusen Logistics partners with cargo.one to deploy its AI-powered operating system for global air freight sales and procurement

Supply Chain Optimisation is Broken. The arrival of SimPath aims to fix it

Freight Forwarders Are Running on Fragmented Systems, and the Industry Is Paying the Price, Says New Report by Softlink Global

New VesselBot Data Analysis Shows the True Emissions Gap Across Container Shipping

30+ Freight Forwarders Across 10+ Countries Choose a Single Digital Backbone in April.

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87% of ecommerce businesses likely to change manufacturing locations

Fr. Meyer’s Sohn FMS acquires Front Shipping AS in Norway

Air Cargo Netherlands fully commits to new innovation strategy

Crane Worldwide Logistics deploys cargo.one to power its quoting and procurement globally with speed and accuracy

Fr. Meyer’s Sohn FMS Acquires Canadian Logistics Specialist CFT Corporation

Charter Link Logistics Group Opens First UK Office, Expanding Global LCL Network

Kale Logistics Solutions Launches New Cross-Border E-commerce Parcel Visibility Platform for Airlines

QCargo Launches: Instant Partner Verification for Global Freight

NeX eCommerce Launches NeX Academy to Bridge the Global Logistics Talent Gap

How Chinese holidays affect the supply chain lifecycle

James Kemball becomes Felixstowe’s largest off-dock container storage provider

JAS Appoints Francois Xavier (“FX”) Mollet as Executive Vice President, EMEA Region

News / MSC becomes first carrier to break 20% global market share barrier

MSC has become the first container shipping line to command a global liner market share ...

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News / Airfreight must prepare for a new wave of pharma – 'current processes won't work'

The air cargo industry risks being unprepared for the next wave of time- and temperature-sensitive ...

Expeditors job losses layoffs Premium Legal Insight

Premium / Expeditors finally used the 'L-word' – the best thing it has done in years

Comment: Making good progress

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News / HMM eyes hub-and spoke model as it expands feeder fleet

South Korean flagship carrier HMM wants to rebuild its intra-Asia shipping business, and is expanding ...

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Tech / Why Europe has the dream, but struggles to build freight-tech giants

Europe may have produced some of freight tech’s most ambitious start-ups, but building them into ...

Comment / Container shipping lines today – are they too big to fail?

Have container shipping lines simply become too big to fail? The news today that the 10 ...

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News / JNPA grants ground rent relief as truck shortages clog box flows

Indian shippers using container terminals at Nhava Port (JNPA) have won some respite from penalties ...

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News / Rising freight costs reflect impact of Gulf crisis and early peak

While freight forwarders and shippers on the transpacific and Asia-Europe trades struggle with soaring spot ...

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News / Kuehne+Nagel expands air freight network in volume-hungry Europe

Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) is eyeing greater connectivity with Europe via Frankfurt, while Central Europe’s air cargo ...

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News / MSC revives Pearl transpacific service for early peak season

MSC has followed Maersk in introducing another transpacific service to meet the peak demand, the ...

Interview / The forwarder of the future: a logistics command centre, says Rhenus

As part of The Loadstar’s series exploring the future of freight forwarding through technology and ...

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News / Shippers face higher LTL costs as carriers tighten price discipline

Propelled by the twin engines of rising industrial activity and a tightening truckload market, the ...

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Premium / The spotlight turns (again) on targeted job cuts at Expeditors

Comment: To be updated

C3 Solutions releases 2026 State of Dock and Yard Management Report

New report underscores rising manual inefficiencies and the necessity of real-time yard visibility in dock ...