In one corner, bulls believe its truly unique mix of business features – transport and logistics, tech and retail – could justify almost any stock valuation, and could even make it a palatable takeover target. In the other corner, bears paint the picture of a business that is economically unsust...

But ABC is not resting on its laurels on service. It is becoming CEIV certified, the new IATA quality stamp for airfreighting pharmaceuticals, in key global gateways and Moscow. It wants to improve service levels for “special traffic” flows and is also hoping to do more charter work, a part of t...

Quarterly signs Second-quarter results weren’t great, as we pointed out in August, but investors believed that the world’s largest box line was well prepared for the extreme market conditions that materialised soon after. In those days, its stock traded at Dkr12,570 – some 20% away from a reco...

Following last week’s rumours that market leader DP-DHL is considering the sale of its Global Forwarding unit to Japan Post for up to $5bn, and the closing of DSV’s takeover of UTi Worldwide, there is speculation that a sale of CEVA Logistics – or parts of it – by owner private equity house ...

Expectations are high in 2016 because a large part of the integration of UTi Worldwide – the takeover was completed last month – is expected to be completed in the first 12 months, according to DSV. However, investors weren’t upbeat about DSV before results were released, and while it rep...

After all, transgressors are hiding in plain sight; all the details are on the bills of lading and if there was accident with a container where the weight had been misdeclared, it ought to be relatively simply to find and prosecute those that caused it. Whether a further piece of legislation is need...

For a driver who has spent any time trying to negotiate London’s congested streets – and since the capital is Logistic-News’s stamping ground (our manor, as we say round ‘ere), we have spent many an hour going absolutely nowhere – it would appear that our mayor, Boris Jo...

Local media is reporting the perhaps surprising development that low-cost carrier SpiceJet is to launch a door-to-door cargo delivery service. Door-to-door is hardly a natural step for a budget carrier, especially one coming out of a turnaround plan. Even infrastructure-rich, full-service airli...

Bunker prices are at a level not seen since the early 2000s, noted Drewry today, but given the way that carriers responded to rising fuel costs which spiked at more than $600 per tonne in 2007 and 2008 – by introducing slow- and super-slow steaming, thus requiring more vessels on their networks �...

It does not focus on jobs per se, but on job-related activities that could be digitised. According to the Oxford report, 47% of US jobs are at risk of being computerised; while the McKinsey study concludes that 45% of the activities we are paid to perform could be digitised. Despite different approa...