And European shippers say it could be yet another hurdle for exporters. From October, UK imports will run through updated online system the Customs Declaration Service (CDS), as HMRC terminates support for the Customs Handling Imports and Exports Freight Platform (CHIEF) – but, with 14 weeks to go...

Taewoong’s Hungarian subsidiary, TGL Hungary, will operate the 2,483 sq metre facility in Dunaharaszti, in northern Hungary, as a base for its logistics business in Eastern Europe. TGL Hungary was established in 2018 and has seen increasing EV battery production after large-scale investment from S...

The difficulties for deepsea container lines in loading and unloading cargo at the largest hub port, and the obstacles to shippers and forwarders collecting and delivering cargo, have been well documented. One answer for carriers has been to unload European imports at secondary ports, where ber...

The new terminal is expected to be operational by the early summer of next year, confirmed Cosumin Carstea CEO of DP World Romania. Mr Carstea admitted that the opportunity had arisen within the context of the Ukrainian war, which has resulted with Ukranian freight being diverted to other Black Sea ...

Negotiations in Bremen between German trade union ver.di and the Central Association of German Seaport Companies (ZDS) broke down yesterday. Beginning at 6am, the strikes are affecting the ports of Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven – road, rail and sea cargo, Maersk said – and run until 6am...

Inflation, supply chain hiccups and the revival of the service sector have not dented demand for shopping, according to a new survey by PricewaterhhouseCoopers (PwC). This month’s Global Consumer Insights Pulse Survey encapsulates input from 9,069 consumers across 25 countries and territories...

But for shippers that rely on the less-than-truckload (LTL) sector, there is little hope of lower rates – if anything, they are likely to climb further. Collective revenues of US LTL carriers rose 20.4% last year to $50.7bn, according to SJ Consulting Group. In addition to the manufacturing sector...

According to new research from Alphaliner, in early February, carriers deployed some 95,400 teu across 43 ships into the Russian port, while today, that figure stands at just 15,700 teu, with only CMA CGM and MSC continuing to advertise calls at the port, on one service each. Alphaliner also notes t...

The next phase of implementation will include emissions from ships operating both within the EU and those outside European territorial waters. A separate ETS will be launched for commercial vehicles, a year earlier than proposed by the EC, on 1 January 2024. Also from 2024, all emissions from shippi...

The banana business was, and to a lesser extent still is, dominated by a handful of household names and, while Lidl’s creation, Tailwind Shipping, may not be a deliberate imitation of the shipping traditions of firms such as Geest, Dole, Fyffes, Chiquita and Del Monte, it does come from the same d...