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Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) Maersk Line Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (NCFI) Xeneta (XSI-C)

News / Asia-USWC spot rates spike as Chinese New Year holiday looms

Container spot rates from Asia to the US west coast spiked this week, ahead of ...

Air India India Shining Indigo SpiceJet

News / Indian airlines hit by double whammy, grounding them firmly in red ink

India’s airlines are finding themselves deep in the red after the dual headwinds of Covid ...

News / K+N's 'new level of data analytics' will measure supply chain disruption

Kuehne+Nagel has developed a new metric to measure supply chain problems. The Sea Freight Disruption Indicator ...

Kuehne + Nagel

M&A activity Ocean Shipping Consultants Ports versus Shipping Lines terminal operators Vertical consolidation

News / Continued maritime liquidity will drive the biggest M&A deals this year

Shipping lines’ “cushy liquidity” helped double M&A deal value in the container port sector last ...

North Sea Port Port of Antwerp Port of Zeebrugge

News / Belgium subsidises barges in bid to shift freight from road to inland waterways

Efforts to improve inland services at Antwerp, North Sea Port and Zeebrugge stepped up this ...

DP World’s CARGOES Finance Marco

News / Marco and DP World launch platform to bridge financial gap for SMEs

SME-finance platform Marco has joined forces with DP World’s CARGOES Finance to offer supply-chain financing, ...

DP World launches premium barge service between Upper Rhine and Rotterdam

Company news

AF-KLM-MP Cargo and Envirotainer eye more sustainable transport of pharma

Heppner continues its growth in Benelux with the acquisition of Dina Logistics

Champ’s MarketAnalytics launch set to transform air cargo insights

DB Schenker opens logistics centre in Denmark

DB Schenker and Lufthansa Cargo welcome Lenovo on their CO2-neutral flights

Geodis opens more Netherlands warehouses to meet e-commerce boom

Shypple implements Champ’s Traxon Premium Tracking solution

DP World builds second London Gateway warehouse in less than a year

Kale to offer 'revolutionary' logistics e-marketplace in Uganda

Delta Cargo latest airline to approve new Releye RLP container

December air cargo demand dampened by supply chain and Omicron issues

Europa starts 2022 Shanghai-bound

Kuehne+Nagel significantly expands footprint in Africa

Wildberries and AirBridgeCargo launch regular air charter to Russian Far East

Japan Airlines awards five-year extension to CHAMP

Forwarders fear 'shut-out' as other major lines emulate Maersk strategy

Trucks keep rolling across the border, despite new Canada vaccine mandate

Dalian the latest China port to be hit by Covid restrictions as delays persist

Launch of 5G tomorrow will bring US air commerce to a halt, say airlines

Forwarders have to turn away large new customers thanks to capacity squeeze

Korean antitrust body slaps $81m fine on price-fixing liner operators

Roaring reefer freight rates freezing out perishables from the shelves

More 2M transpac voyages 'slide' as vessels still queue at USWC ports

CN calls for a forced sale of Kansas City Southern Eastern line

Liner integrators – Taiwan’s big three have 'no ambitions in that direction'

Cargo moving from sea to air has boosted Indian freight services

Shipping lines scoff at Seoul’s price-fixing fines – 'they won't hurt us'

Seko targets a slice of integrator market with launch of e-commerce unit

Hard-pressed shippers run for the safety of entrepreneurial ad-hoc carriers

'Any box or ship will do' – weighing the risk of employing ageing assets

People / 'What's the spread on that?' Cheers as BIFA Freight Awards go live again

After the madness of the past couple of years, there was an air of euphoria ...

BIFA Freight Service Awards

APM Moeller Maersk Group Shipping Australia Limited (SAL)

News / Shipping Australia appoints My Therese Blank as its first female director

Shipowner and operator association Shipping Australia has appointed the first female director in its 110-year ...

DSV Snapshot Stock market reaction

Premium / Snapshot: DSV – the 'M&A value' evaporates

Comment: Clouded

Danaos Danaos Shipping Zim ZIM Integrated Shipping Services

Premium / Analysis: Magic Danaos smashes it – and now look what's next

Comment: Risk-on risk-off? Doesn’t matter… maybe.

capacity crunch CMA CGM freight forwarders Hapag-Lloyd Maersk MSC Shipping alliances shipping lines

News / Forwarders fear 'shut-out' as other major lines emulate Maersk strategy

Increasing numbers of forwarders claim they are being “shut out” by shipping lines that appear ...

3PLs CMA CGM Evergreen Maersk MSC Wan Hai Lines Yang Ming

News / Liner integrators – Taiwan’s big three have 'no ambitions in that direction'

Taiwan’s big three liner operators, Evergreen, Yang Ming and Wan Hai, say they will focus ...

conventional reefers DHL Global Forwarding Easyfresh perishables Reefer market reefers

News / Roaring reefer freight rates freezing out perishables from the shelves

The rise and rise of reefer freight rates means fewer choices on supermarket shelves as ...

ACT Research Adobe Analytics American Trucking Association CASS Freight Index DAT Truckload Volume Index National Retail Federation (NRF) US Department of Commerce

News / More pain for shippers as the price of US trucking stays in a high gear

Hopes of US trucking rates going into reverse are fading fast. The industry roared through December, ...

767F Boeing freighter conversions Gameco The freighter game UPS

News / B767F popularity shows demand for legacy freighters remains strong

Last month, UPS Airlines ordered another 19 767-300F aircraft, giving a further boost to the ...

Charter parties charter rates Danaos MPC Container Ships VesselsValue

News / Containership earnings bonanza continues in the red hot charter market

The charter market just keeps getting better and better for non-operating containership owners, with record ...

Associated British Ports haulage Port of Immingham Rebuilding the UK Rotterdam Stena Line

News / Stena and ABP in £100m deal to build new Humber terminal at Immingham

Stena Line and Associated British Ports (ABP) are to develop a new terminal at the ...

Evolve Bank and Trust Shifl

News / Freight tech provider shifl shifts into fintech market

Logitech provider shifl (Yiddish for ship) unveiled its latest offering today when it launched shifl ...

AP Moller - Maersk DSV Expectations - great or otherwise JB Hunt Knocking on door effect On the wires Stock market reaction Value accretion

Premium / On the wires: The earnings season opens – downside risk fully apparent

Comment: It’s either “knocking on doors” or…

AP Moller - Maersk forwarders Maersk Maersk Spot Maersk vs. forwarders small and medium sized enterprises (SME)

News / Maersk space ban means 'a dark future', maybe the end, for small forwarders

“Thousands” of small freight forwarders fear for their survival following Maersk’s decision to offer them ...

News / Cargo moving from sea to air has boosted Indian freight services

Global forwarder DB Schenker believes India presents opportunities for air cargo growth, as Covid has ...

DB Schenker

Cheng Lie Navigation (CNC Line) CMA CGM Cosco Shipping Evergreen Marine Corp Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) Korea Shipowners' Association (KSA) OOCL Pacific International Lines (PIL) Wan Hai Lines Yang Ming Marine Transport

Shipping lines scoff at Seoul’s price-fixing fines – 'they won't hurt us'

The shipping lines hit by a collective $80.7m fine by the Korea Fair Trade Commission ...

News / 'Any box or ship will do' – weighing the risk of employing ageing assets

Demand surges during the pandemic causing a shortage of containers in the right place has ...

TT Club

Bringg Barometer Spend Management Experts

News / The next three years a challenging journey to a same-day delivery nirvana

Retailers have a mountain to climb: they see a burning need to add same-day delivery ...