Deutsche Post DHL said on 18 May that during his tenure at Kuehne + Nagel, Mr Scharwath had been “accountable for the migration of different country organisations, the integration of acquired companies and the successful management of his business during the economic downturn in 2009”. A K+N boa...

The SCFI is well established and is regularly quoted in the financial results of carriers as a bellwether to the market’s health. Meanwhile, disruptive platforms such as Xeneta allow users to monitor past and future rate movements across tens of thousands of port pairs for a variety of contract du...

On Friday, Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd, K Line, MOL, NYK and Yang Ming announced they would form THE Alliance. The move followed last month’s news that CMA CGM, COSCON, Evergreen and OOCL would become the Ocean Alliance, to compete with the 2M dominance of Maersk and MSC. Thus it ...

Yet there were scant details about redundancies on a large scale in a follow-up call with analysts, which to my mind is odd, given that lay-offs remain a key value driver for the combined entity, as is the case in any large-scale cross-border merger and acquisitions. Valuable staff While its new gl...

Our team was on the call that followed its trading update last week, and was favourably impressed by the enhanced performance of the Danish group – it could have been much worse. My colleague, Mike Wackett, soon identified the key value drivers, pointing out that the numbers were significantl...

However, a recent, successful, initiative in the sea freight industry might just point towards a possible solution for this predicament – and largely, it is up to shippers themselves to create such visibility. Norway-based Xeneta has developed a platform for shippers to upload the pricing det...

Its shares plunged more than 4% on Wednesday, in the wake of a quarterly release that turned out to be worse than it looked at first sight, and its valuation was still under pressure yesterday, underperforming a flat stock market by two percentage points. Share price movements say it all, really –...

More important, perhaps, was what else wasn’t said. Atlas did not have great first-quarter results – much in line with the rest of the industry, following a good first quarter in 2015. Adjusted net income was down 70% to $7.7m from $25.8m a year earlier. On a reported basis, net income was down ...

In private conversations with senior Maersk executives, it has become clear that while the plaudits of being a bellwether company are welcome, the glow recedes over time. “We have retuned profits year after year to investors in an industry that often fails to do that, and yet our share price has s...

So, what more appropriate juncture to run the rule on their cargo operations than at the end of a poor earnings season for most companies in the transport and logistics industry? United What a difference a year can make. In 2014, United saw cargo revenue increase by $56m, or 6.3%, over the year befo...