While some have suggested that this has been “in the post” for some time – the gradual erosion of workers’ rights in the UK culminating in the government block of last year’s Parliamentary bill to outlaw “fire and rehire” tactics – there was still a genuine sense of surprise, because...

Amid a nightmarish pandemic and its resulting complications, ranging from inventory problems to staff shortages, managers are looking for new ways to order their affairs. To remedy this situation, facilities have increasingly turned to automated machines to remain functional. This solution, however,...

It has now become clear that congestion in ports which has been emerging across the world is not only a concern for maritime and supply chain professionals, but even the largest economy. As much as there are constraints associated on the port and the seaside, the hinterland flows of goods in and out...

Over at Logistic-News Premium and on Logistic-News’s Podcast, we have ventured the theory that Maersk is effectively becoming a contract logistics company, the only difference between it, and say, GXO Logistics, is the asset class – where GXO operates warehouses and trucks and handles pallets, Mae...

Post-Islamic State (ISIS), Iraq is still struggling to rebuild war-scarred infrastructure, control bouts of civil unrest, target corruption and form a new government. But, in the southernmost reaches of the country, International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)’s immaculate container terminal ...

Instead, the combination of port congestion, container shortages and wider supply chain disruption has driven supply/demand imbalances to the extent that MSI estimates the gap between effective demand and available supply to have been north of 15% in the past year. In order to understand the prospec...

Today’s discussion at an International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) webinar on dealing with protectionism in maritime economies appears to have isolated the maritime sector, presenting it as a standalone industry. The debate was centred on the ICS’s study on Protectionism in Maritime Economies, whi...

A team of academics and national security advisors from the Northeast Maritime Institute’s Center for Ocean Policy and Economics (COPE) presented a report in mid-December entitled A Revitalisation Plan for US Maritime Trade, Commerce and Strategic Competition that lays out proposals to re-assert U...

Last week, Atlas Air announced that Flexport would take a third 747 in September as the list of forwarders securing long-term air capacity gets longer – DB Schenker, DSV, Geodis and many others announcing deals. It is not, maintain some observers, simply a function of low capacity and frighteningl...

Newton’s third law of motion contends that, when two bodies interact they apply an equal force to each other, but in opposite directions. This may be one of the cornerstones of his theory of gravity, but it has also been applied in other fields of academic research, including economics and, after ...