2020’s annus horribilis for shippers threatens their very existence and has left relationships with carriers in tatters. However, back in May, at the height of the pandemic, it was the container lines that were staring into the abyss of bankruptcy as consumer demand fell off a cliff due to Covid-1...

Well, that’s just not going to happen today – I haven’t the foggiest idea what’s going to happen in the next 12 minutes, let alone months. And no one else does either. Nevertheless, here’s where we are (with forward apologies for any oversight… there’s a lot going on at the mo): Covid....

Unlike most other companies though, Logistic-News’s office was on a 1924-built Dutch barge, which originally plied the waters of the Netherlands with cargoes of bulk. Luxemotor Sagitta came to live in the UK some 14 years ago. The team made the decision to move the barge out of London, to a new moo...

Smart Container solutions empower supply chain stakeholders to enhance their operations using reliable physical data to provide door-to-door visibility and AI-based predictive services for deriving predictive event determination, as well as visibility into the status and environmental condition of t...

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There is different vocabulary, largely separate conference and events circuits and a contrasting set of concerns and metrics. In normal times the day-to-day logistical headaches liner companies, shippers, forwarders and terminals must suffer are of limited relevance to vessel owners, and it is unusu...

However, far from being a magic wand, the reality is somewhat more challenging. The country has had freeports before, but those – established in the 1980s and 1990s in ports like Liverpool and Tilbury – eventually withered and died. All they could offer was freedom from customs duties, and this ...

An association man, Mr Hughes has been with IATA for the majority of his career, but took voluntary redundancy and leaves in January. Happily, it was just as Tiaca was looking for its new director general following a management shake-up. He begins his new role in February: “to establish and implem...

Showing off its “integrated power under the new organisation”, it has posted images of a 747 air charter it arranged, from China to Europe, for a hi-tech customer. “We can transport via ocean, inland and air with our amazing teams around the world,” crowed the MD for China. Unfortunately tho...

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