If an existential threat to shipping emerges, you can almost guarantee that ferries will be in the vanguard at the point of impact. In recent times the sector has somehow managed to survive the successive threats of the Channel Tunnel; low-cost airlines; the abolishing of duty free; and th...

UK businesses are furious that no decision will now be made until October at the earliest. The Freight Transport Association said this morning the delay was “bad news for the economy and will further erode confidence in Britain’s ability to compete in global markets”. Chris Welsh, FTA’s dire...

Alex Lennane, Logistic-News Publisher I’d have written differently, just a few days ago. The mood in the UK was highly charged, angry. But now, as I write, the candles lit in memory of the murdered MP, Jo Cox, flicker across the river, from her boat on the opposite bank of the Thames. Each night ...

Diversification has always been one of Atlas’s strengths – and it has not ignored the opportunities available in the ever-growing e-commerce and express business. While many airlines turn circles trying to work out how to capitalise on these growth areas, Atlas has gradually – but firmly – s...

The winning type of investment was “process automation”, which had a correlation to higher profits nearly twice as much as investments in analytics/big data. And it was nearly five times as high as investments in general application development. In short, the studied companies got the biggest ba...

In less than two weeks, UK voters head to the polls to make one of the biggest decisions for a generation or more. Given the increasingly centrist policies of the Conservative and Labour parties, national elections are routinely little more than a choice of favourite colour, but the E...

So, what’s next for Panalpina as sea and air freight volumes are unlikely to surprise on the upside into 2017, and its shares look fully priced? Options Options appear thin on the ground, even for a company of Panalpina’s size, which ranks among the major air and sea freight forwarders glob...

I discussed its recent asset-backed securitisation, also known as “the European ABS”, with a few investors in London and New York, who I assumed were trading CEVA’s debt in the secondary market. Our recent coverage of the CEVA story had caught their attention, and the fact that ...

In a press call last week the two companies reiterated how well the cultures would work together, but one TNT insider told Logistic-News the corporate cultures were very different – and there had already been a shake-up in management. The insider said: “How can the cultures be simi...

The latest example comes from no less than the International Maritime Organisation – the very body that wrote the SOLAS regulations, as well as the forthcoming amendment – which issued new VGM guidance this week on the issue of transhipment containers loaded before ...