A report from the International Transport Forum (ITF) a think tank that is politically autonomous, but administratively integrated into the OECD, effectively concludes that global regulation has failed shippers and forwarders by engineering a situation in which shipping lines can legally ‘manufact...

Canada’s biggest box port is experiencing a wave of record import volumes and when combined with intermodal delays due to forest fires in British Columbia, it has resulted in a big spike in container import dwell times. Hapag-Lloyd said that all vessels calling at Vancouver “continue to face sig...

From August 3 Virgin will pick up Danish and Scandinavian e-commerce shipments from Billund, which were previously trucked around Europe. “We will be targeting urgent pharmaceutical, automotive and perishable cargoes destined for the USA, Africa, Israel and the Indian Subcontinent,” said Steve B...

TiL has acquired the shareholding of the Ocean Terminal and Terminal de Normandie with an investment of €700m ($713m), which will include the creation of 900 jobs for dockworkers and 200 for maintenance staff over a six-year period. TiL CEO Ammar Kanaan said the deal had been possible “thanks to...

The service involves moving containerised freight on trailers from the US west coast to Nippon Express’s warehouse in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and then shipping from Manzanillo Port to Asia. Nippon Express claimed the intermodal service offered shippers a dependable lead time – for example,...

Supply chain visibility provider Tive conducted a survey of 250 businesses, in collaboration with the Worldwide Supply Chain Federation, consultancy Charlie Pesti and Shipping and Freight Resource. It says “supply chain visibility has risen in business criticality”, and is now critical for B2B o...

The disruption in the ports of Chennai, Ennore (Kamarajar) and Kattupalli, which handle the majority of containerised trade in and out of the region, ended yesterday evening, after container freight station (CFS) stakeholders agreed to revise haulage rates. Trailer owners had demanded an 80% increas...

Representatives from two port associations have condemned the government change of tack, increasingly referring to the border control posts (BCPs) – mandated before the policy was scrapped in April – as “commercial endeavours”. British Ports Association CEO Richard Ballantyne told The Loadst...

Local sources said about 4,000 trailer vehicles handling local container freight station (CFS) cargo at the ports of Chennai, Ennore (Kamarajar) and Kattupalli have been off the road since Monday. The Trailer Owners’ Association is pressing for a substantial “long overdue” hike in haulage rate...

Pegged back by sanctions against Russia, the rail network’s usual double-digit annual growth has come to a screeching halt. First-half volumes increased just 2.3%, to 720,000 teu, according to China State Railway, and by comparison, volumes grew 29% last year and 56% in 2020. Some forwarders point...