Both the federal government in Ottawa and the province of New Brunswick have dug up funds to support its expansion and are pumping C$37.8m (US$29.9m) into the project, which will add a second berth and rail track to more than double rail capacity. Transport Canada is allocating C$21m to increasing p...

He claims regulatory intervention is necessary for a more democratic logistics sector to emerge. Speaking on a platform with Maersk’s UK and Ireland representative, Samantha Brocklehurst, and Nick Winder, of WIN Logistics Group, at this year’s Multimodal show in Birmingham, the debate turned to ...

President Yoon Suk-yeol has made it clear there will be no government intervention as the truckers.  He said: “Only when the government sticks to the law and principles and remains neutral, do I believe labour and management will be able to build the capacity to freely resolve their issues on...

Thanks to their chemical makeup, lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries release oxygen when they heat up and, should they catch fire, it is impossible to smother the flames with water or foam. Worse, however, is that while some are taught to fight battery fires using CO2 foam, spraying CO2 onto a battery fi...

Negotiations between German port employers and dockworkers trade union ver.di ended without a result on Saturday after 10 hours. The union described a revised offer from the Central Association of German Seaport Companies (ZDS) as “inadequate”. “This offer is far below the real wage prote...

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But this has happened before; and many believe the rage and upset ultimately turn into apathy. The tragedies in Tianjin in 2015 and Beirut in 2020 were very similar in many ways; there is certainly a sense of deja vu, suggesting little has changed. It’s too easy for the industry to let the narrati...

The German united services trade union Verdi called out its 12,000 dockworker members at Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony in the first of what could be several “warning strikes”, designed to increase the pressure on its ongoing wage dispute with the employers, the Central Association of German S...

Since last month Zara has charged consumers €2.95 if they send purchases back. In the UK the levy is £1.75, which the retailer deducts from the refund. Zara is not alone. Uniqlo, another fashion chain, charges consumers who return online purchases €1.95. Like free delivery, free returns have be...

“Following the recent fatal explosion on 4 June 2022 at one of the container facilities in Bangladesh, we have observed a significant spike in the number of containers containing hydrogen peroxide being discharged in PSA Terminals,” the operator said in an advisory on Thursday. It...