Once you get past buzzwords such as transformative, cutting-edge and configurable, you get an interesting solution that’s not exactly a leading solution (pardon the pun), but still a good one that could interest shippers of all sizes, particularly in today’s complex environment.  Don�...

It emerged this week that the fledgling carrier, which received its first 747-400F from sister airline CAL in April, has come under fire from the Alaskan carrier for potentially “unfair or deceptive practices or unfair methods of competition, due to the significant potential for, or actual, confus...

For the past three years, on behalf of my market research firm, Logistics Trends & Insights, I’ve conducted an annual survey on this change. Each year I’ve asked what a freight forwarder is and the majority of the responses have always been “a firm specialising in ...

Why hard to believe? Well, remember the last time, in 2015. It was very messy: leaks to the media from staff and unions were frequent; management was elusive; and the atmosphere was febrile. True, the market was difficult. But the distrust between management and unions was tangible.  Fast-forwa...

The original strategy of the government in securing some extra vessel capacity, should UK-bound supply chains face crippling congestion in the wake of a no-deal Brexit, was sound enough – Brexit posed an existential threat to the country’s trade; putting the mechanisms upon which the UK’s econ...

The latest news from the Brexit shitshow is that P&O Ferries has decided it also wants a government handout – because Eurotunnel got one.  If you have followed this altogether daft story, you will recall that ‘Failing’ Grayling gave £100m-worth of contracts to Brittany Ferries, ...

Jeff Rubin was CIBC global chief economist for some 20 years, a leading authority on oil, and much sought-after keynote speaker. He has developed and published ground-breaking insights on the lesser known aspects of oil in globalisation and the modern economy, been rated as a top...

The global financial crisis changed that, and cargo owners began to expect greater value from port facilities. The concept of port-centric logistics has increasingly become a topic of discussion at trade conferences and in the boardrooms of multinationals. So too is the realisation that too much inv...

It’s the usual suspects, and the usual topics; but tomorrow also brings IATA’s third Innovation Awards, with a prize of some $20,000 at stake to help the winning team develop its idea. Introduced six years ago, when air cargo looked stultified and was lacking progress, particularly in technology...

He said he would only pick people who were “right for the job”, regardless of gender. Fair enough, you might think. That’s what’s best for the industry, surely? The right people? Of course. But how odd that all the “right people” seem to be men. Without wishing to embarrass the orga...