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News / Industry confusion over plan for new TSA air cargo security regime

Preparations for a mandate to screen all cargo moved on freighter aircraft this summer got ...

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News / New funds give Sennder and Shippeo scope to progress digital supply chains

European freight tech start-ups saw nearly €200m in new investment this week in two deals ...

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News / Canadian airlines invest in more freighter capacity as demand for space rises

Canada is upping its freighter capacity, with both Cargojet and Air Canada expanding to take ...

Kerry Logistics Network opens chemical logistics centre in Cangzhou, China

Company News

DSV builds integrated logistics centre in Stockholm, Sweden

Geodis expands and renames its specialist Project Logistics business

CMA CGM strengthens its customer offer

Air France-KLM awards Swissport expanded contract in Saudi Arabia

Ahlers announces major investment in new warehousing facilities in St Petersburg

XPO Logistics surpasses 300,000 app downloads for digital transportation platform

Portrix-BlueX partnership provides forwarders access to Taiwanese carriers rates

Containerships launches Europe-UK DUNK service

ONE to offer two new direct services from North Europe to the East Mediterranean and Turkey

Kestrel becomes Hoegh Autoliners agent in Barbados

CHAMP Cargosystems, Qatar Airways Cargo and Agility complete IATA ONE Record pilot

Geodis launches City Delivery for faster urban deliveries

Cathay Pacific Cargo develops solution for vaccine distribution

Kuehne+Nagel and AF-KLM Cargo launch first zero emission SAF air freight route

U-Ocean blows into Windy City

Recommends / Why empty shipping containers are piling up in Australia

You don’t have to be an Australian supply chain operator for this article to be ...

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Emissions & Omissions Going green Low emissions logistics Smart Freight Centre

Recommends / Climate change: why bother?

Smart Freight Centre, a partner of The Loadstar, has published a simple, clear blog on ...

APM Terminals NYK On the merry-go-round Yokohama

People / Sakura Kuma joins APM Terminals as new CEO of terminal operations in Japan

APM Terminals has appointed Sakura Kuma (pictured above) as the new chief executive of its ...

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Premium / C-19 radar: Searching for optimism in 2021 – 'something’s better than nothing’

Comment: Brits wake up to a zero-squared trade deal and an ad hoc vaccine rollout.

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Brexit News / Customer anger as DB Schenker suspends Europe-UK road freight services

DB Schenker’s decision to suspend road transport services to the UK will “go down like ...

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News / South Korean container lines set to launch K-Alliance on Asia trades

The post-Hanjin evolution of South Korea’s shipping industry took another step forward last month with ...

HMM Intra-Asia K-Alliance Korea Shipping Partnership South Korea The fall-out from Hanjin

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News / IT problem at Maersk not another cyber-attack, says HQ

Maersk has denied that a communications outage today was a new cyber-attack. The shipping line confirmed ...

Alibaba Cainiao coronavirus Schedule reliability the ecommerce equation

News / Logistics 'rookie' Cainiao claims its new services will be cheaper and reliable

Guaranteed compensation and good customer service are in very rare supply these days, especially in ...

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News / Charterers still in the driving seat, making carriers offers they can't refuse

The absence of open containerships on the charter market has resulted in carriers being forced ...

Recommends / Cargo vessel captain may face arrest following Beirut explosion

In what looks, on the face of it, to be a classic case of the ...

Beirut port explosion

Recommends / Gulf of Guinea this decade’s Somalia as vessel hijacks and kidnapping cases soar

Somali pirates dominated the shipping headlines for the best part of a decade – even ...

Piracy West Africa

Amazon InstaFreight On the merry-go-round Uber

People / Former Uber and Amazon exec Adam Chassin joins InstaFreight

Adam Chassin (pictured above), former head of business for Uber in Europe and head of ...

DHL Global Forwarding DSV Panalpina Expeditors Kuehne + Nagel Supply chain radar

Premium / Supply chain radar: Expect a Q1 21 booster for K+N, DSV, Expeditors, et al

Comment: That the fourth quarter (Q4 20) was a boon for the ocean freight trade, everybody ...

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Premium / On the wires: The container freight story at a granular level

Comment: Analysing container freight rates per nautical mile can tell a different story to the macro ...

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Premium / Snapshot: XPO Logistics – the picture is neat

Comment: Money doesn’t grow on trees, my late grandma used to argue

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News / Silk Road rail and haulage rates rising, driven by Covid and border delays

2020 was another record-busting year for rail volumes on the New Silk Road, but a ...

Asia-North Europe Capacity crunch: eastbound angst Customer-carrier relations Freightos Hapag-Lloyd Rates: the eternal tango

News / More misery for European exporters as carriers tighten Asia bookings

Carriers are imposing booking stops around Europe, as well as tightening the time allowed to ...

Auto-Logistics automotive Capacity shortage Crane Worldwide semi-conductors

News / The (micro)chips are down, putting the brakes on global car production

Auto makers are having to pare back production, just as the market is getting back ...

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News / Ceva Logistics expands China-Europe railfreight services

Ceva Logistics is developing more China-Europe rail services and has announced the launch of one ...

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News / 'Dynamic peak season' provides a record profit for Deutsche Post-DHL

German logistics giant Deutsche Post-DHL is set to report record financial results for 2020, “fuelled ...

Delta Cargo On the merry-go-round

People / Two new MDs appointed to lead merged Delta Cargo team

More changes at Delta Cargo, after the carrier last month announced it was subsuming the ...