According to the latest market update by transport and logistics network provider Transplace, recent months saw a steep drop in spot rates and volumes. Truckload spot rates plummeted 30 cents a mile in March and April, and have fallen more than 70 cents a mile since January. To a considerable e...

The country’s busy container handler has begun to marshal the infrastructure necessary to integrate its operations with the much-awaited national Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), expected to connect Nhava Sheva terminals at the end of the year. Stakeholders often face difficulty moving conta...

Moreover, the coastal shift by shippers from the west coast to east ports appears to be gaining fresh momentum ahead of the expiry of the US west coast labour agreement on 1 July, despite some optimism from both unions and employers. According to the latest statistics from the port of Los Angeles&nb...

Vessels were forced to wait offshore for days before getting the chance to unload freight. With worsening port congestion, longer lead times, delays in delivery and shortages in production, heavily impacted by events such as renewed outbreaks of Covid in China and the war in Ukraine, supply chain ex...

The French carrier will accept returns at any of its facilities in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City and Memphisfrom 16 May until 15 July, with a $300 incentive for boxes returned within four days of being picked up. Ed Aldridge, president of CMA CGM and APL North America, said: “CMA ...

The conglomerate is also pursuing the deal via the Danish government. Garment producers are the main users of Bangladesh’s ports and logistics sector and apparel its main foreign currency-earner of Bangladesh, more than $30bn, making it the second-largest garment exporter worldwide. Inditex annual...

Lockdowns have decimated international freight flows from China’s powerhouse, casting an ever-lengthening shadow over international supply chains. Numbers released by FourKites show the two-week average shipment volume from China to the US was down 20% as of 29 April, from the period just before t...

Powered by two-cylinder petrol engines, Windracers’ ULTRA (unmanned low-cost transport) drone can carry 100kg up to 1,000km, making it more than capable of reaching the Shetland and Orkney islands, the Hebrides and the Isles of Scilly. The development follows a successful trial last month, when Ro...

Metro Shipping MD Grant Liddell said Brexit had “discombobulated” the UK’s SME community following decades of free trade with continental neighbours, with transit rates and administrative bureaucracy surging. “Average traditional forwarder freight movement cost has increased by a minimum of ...

A study commissioned by e-commerce technology provider Doddle, based on a survey of e-commerce retail businesses across five European markets – the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy – reveals an acute headache for online merchants. More than half (57%) of respondents described returns as...