Mr Shariff, a freight forwarding veteran, discussed the structural changes determining the new competitive environment for the middle-man, as well as the technological gap that currently exists between freight forwarders and other key players in the supply chain. I should note that by sheer coincide...

But when they enter, they will likely find that the goods they want are only discounted at, perhaps, 25%. The key words in those promises are “up to” and, to a lesser degree, “70%”. The same is often true when airlines report the freight capacity of their new passenger flights. The airl...

Why such technologies have failed to take off is due to a variety of factors, but what is apparent is that – regardless of whether wearables to date have lacked the mobility or security capabilities to fully support the ways in which we now work – those capabilities are rapidly building, and org...

The amount of goodwill it still generates, even after several years in the wilderness, is astonishing. And it clearly needs to exist. It is a counterweight to the power of IATA; it removes industry silos created by associations like ACI; it has the potential to be modern and agile – in d...

Items were stored badly across the warehouse, something likely generated from years of neglect and a short-term savings approach to warehouse work. If you spend less money on workplace training for warehouse staff; less money on pay to incentivise your staff; less money on research into more ef...

And the commission’s annual rail freight conference in Vienna on 7 December provided a very useful reminder of what the railways across Europe are failing to do. Although this refers primarily to freight, passenger trains generally run on the same tracks and, outside regions and urban services, of...

Not only was that overly dramatic and not helpful for safety of life at sea, but it was irresponsible as well as being fundamentally flawed: the input assumptions were totally incorrect. The blog jumped around without a logical flow and appeared to conclude that if you corrupted the stowage or Baypl...

In an address to the UK Major Port Group’s annual Parliamentary reception in the House of Commons this week, UK shipping minister John Hayes gave the sort of upbeat speech typical of many Brexiteers in the government, claiming the industry faces “wonderful opportunities”, given that the �...

And it set it beside another news story which predicted the era of the full-container-load (FCL) was coming to an end, and posed the perfectly reasonable question: how will carriers overcome the paradox of building bigger ships for smaller consignments? But I believe there may be even more insurmoun...

On the one hand, it now appears that shipping giants MSC and CMA CGM are building vessels that will nearly reach 24,000 teu, leading Alphaliner to create not one but two new asset classes of box ship – the Megamax-24 for the 23,500 teu vessels the two lines have under construction; and the Megamax...