Lufthansa Cargo apologises to customers as it freezes bookings after IT outage

Lufthansa Cargo has been forced to issue a global booking freeze for all cargo shipments to and via Frankfurt and Munich, until Friday, owing to an IT outage. However, a ban ...

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News / It's a struggle for 'digital' forwarders, with 'poster boy' Flexport losing value

The proposed sale of ‘digital’ forwarder Forto, as well as EV Cargo, which also considers ...

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News / France-Italy road and rail freight chaos after Alpine rockfall

A major rockfall in the French Alps last week will continue to significantly disrupt road ...

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News / OOCL vessel has near-miss in Panama Canal as new charges come in

An OOCL vessel involved in a near-miss incident while under tow through the Panama Canal ...

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News / Indian exporters face more blank sailings on Europe services

Indian shippers are seeing no real respite from vessel schedule disruption, particularly on connections to ...

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News / Shanghai Covid scare raises spectre of further lockdown disruption

With mass testing again underway, there are renewed fears that Shanghai could go back into ...

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News / Covid slows China port volume growth, as Tianjin enters new lockdown

Container volumes at China’s ports increased slightly during January-April, despite the impact from widespread Covid ...

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Comment / Shiny new TIACA: small event, but big decision-makers and even bigger ideas

If you thought TIACA was just a bunch of old men, high on viagra and politicking ...

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Recommends / Brussels braces for ‘freedom convoy’ protesting coronavirus restrictions

The Ambassador Bridge between Canada and the US has finally re-opened to traffic after protestors ...

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

US commerce by air will “grind to a halt” tomorrow, with airlines forced to ground ...

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News / As Ningbo slowly recovers, Covid ripples reach ports of Tianjin and Shenzhen

The port of Ningbo has largely recovered from its latest Covid disruption, but the risk ...

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News / Ningbo shippers divert as exports are hit by Covid-restricted trucking

Forwarders are shifting volumes to congested-Shanghai to avoid landside delays, despite carrier schedules so far ...

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News / Race against time for importers as links from Vancouver are re-established

Waterborne Canadian imports from Asia remain under pressure. Traffic links between the port of Vancouver ...

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News / Torrential rain washes out roads and railways, cutting links from Vancouver port

For the second time this year, severe weather has severed cargo flows between Canada’s largest ...

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