The inland port on the western edge of Manchester will provide a localised logistics service, with the port of Liverpool looking to entice mainline operators to offer direct calls or feeder services from Europe into north-west England. It would reduce the truck miles for containers delivered to Feli...

Rewind 10sPausePlayForward 10s% buffered00:0000:0000:00UnmuteMuteExit fullscreenEnter fullscreen Play Guests Lars Mikael Jensen, head of global ocean network at Maersk Peter Sand, chief analyst at Xeneta Jake Phipps, CEO of global manufacturer Phipps International ...

Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), which has a countrywide port network, was among 12 applicants for the JNPA revamp project, designed under a public-private-partnership (PPP) model. APSEZ’s disqualification stems from the tender conditions; they bar operators involved in port contra...

Under its “Reassurance Plan”, Cainiao has integrated nearly 3,600 trailer lines from eastern China and other regions to Shanghai port, ensuring merchants can export goods normally. Cainiao has also chartered flights and ships, with land-to-water and land-to-rail transfers also offered to exporte...

Damietta’s new Terminal 2 will have an annual handling capacity of 3.3m teu, with its first phase scheduled to open in 2024, slated to become Hapag-Lloyd and its THE Alliance partners’ prime east Mediterranean transhipment hub. According to the eeSea liner database, THE Alliance’s MD1 Asia-Med...

Activities at the port have been severely disrupted over the past couple of months, owing to political and economic crises and the island nation has enforced a state of emergency. It has reportedly given “shoot-on-sight” orders to the military and police, empowered them to arrest, without w...

Having previously declared its intention to set up a network of directly controlled warehouses, the company is now pursuing an asset-light approach with the $2.1bn acquisition of Deliverr. The addition to Shopify’s fold is a software provider that manages two-day final-mile deliveries through an a...

Customs procedures and physical checks of AEO containers will be conducted at factories or warehouses, rather than congested port yards and depots. An AEO certificate holder will also enjoy similar facilities at ports in other countries with which Bangladesh has an AEO mutual recognition agreement. ...

The blanking strategies by the alliances to mitigate the impact of the Covid lockdowns in China will further extend cargo lead times, particularly to North Europe. The supply chain platform’s data shows that between weeks 17 to 23, THE Alliance will blank 33% of its scheduled sailings from Asia, t...

DHL claimed the Dorabot can double the efficiency of even its most productive workers. “What we’re going up against is a human’s ability to sort into bags – anywhere from 50-75 bags,” said a member of DHL Americas. “We’ve seen anywhere from 200 packages an hour to 500, and then th...