Loadstar Podcast | February 2025 | Shippers vs carriers: ‘A vessel on time is a black swan event’
In this episode of The Loadstar Podcast, host Mike King sits down with James Hookham, of the ...
Discussions on how to deal with the potentially devastating effects of insects and other pests carried either on or inside cargo containers began in earnest this week at an International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) conference in London.
For the first time the IPPC, part of the food and agriculture organisation of the UN, convened a transport workshop to discuss systems to significantly reduce the risk of accidentally transporting organisms that could potentially wreak havoc outside of their natural habitat, in or ...
European port congestion now at five-to-six days, and getting worse
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