Government-imposed draught limitations on the Kaub Gauge, in the Middle Rhine, alongside predicted low water levels – potentially down to 41cm – have resulted in Contargo imposing surcharges of between €201 to €589 ($206-$604) per 20ft box, depending on the water depth, and €259 to €775 ...

But carriers, such as Evergreen, continue to order more. Yesterday, Hamburg-based consultancy Container xChange said container over-building was a knee-jerk reaction to logistical bottlenecks, resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. CEO Christian Roeloffs said: “The current situation of oversupply o...

However, these staggering losses are almost entirely preventable, according to Mahesh Verina, president and CEO of ParkourSC, a provider of supply chain insights and intelligence software. To do the job, pharma supply chains must become ‘more digital and agile’ – with the help of technology, h...

In February, the government launched its Levelling-up white paper – which aims to set out a “complete system change of government works that will be implemented to level-up the UK” – following the creation of a Department for Levelling-up, Housing and Communities. Peel Ports CEO Claudio Veri...

According to the latest McCown Report, throughput at the top ten US container ports reached 2,164,789 teu last month, after a 3% gain in May and a 5.1% increase in April. This represented a huge, 26.9%, increase on the pre-pandemic levels of June 2019, evidence of the nation’s insatiable appetite ...

Minister of state-owned enterprises Erick Thohir said last week 95% of containerised exports from Belawan, located in northern Sumatra, were transhipped in Singapore and Port Klang in Malaysia. Data from state-owned port operator Pelindo shows Belawan handled 550,871 teu last year, and Statistics In...

With the possibility of industrial action as early as today (18 July), he signed an executive order on Friday for a board of arbitrators to seek a solution to the railway contract dispute simmering since January 2020. During the 60 days given to the board to develop a compromise, no industrial actio...

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The group has clinched a $1.2bn (NIS 4.1bn) deal to secure concession rights for Haifa port, Israel’s second-busiest gateway, in a joint bid with local partner Gadot Group. Haifa is a key intermediate hub in the Mediterranean region. “Through the winning bid, the Adani-Gadot consortium has secur...

Understandably the pair dropped the service guarantees in the early days of the Covid outbreak as their networks, slowed by health measures, were flooded with parcels. Last year both signalled a kind of return to normality when the money-back guarantees were reinstated – but only for express traff...