Transport minister Wee Ka Siong said this would improve Port Klang’s efficiency and prevent containers from piling up at the yard. He added that the new measures would see freight inspected by customs officers on the first day after arrival, and the inspection reviewed the following day. By the th...

According to the agency, part of the proposal is to make it clear that the STB has the authority to direct emergency rail services and establish a faster process to deal with acute service emergencies. “The existing emergency rules are too cumbersome to be of use to shippers in need of immediate r...

Sources at customs, forwarding and haulage organisations said it was “an open secret” that GVMS “does not function”, and loopholes will continue to be exploited until import safety and security declarations are introduced. “There could be ten loads on a vehicle without a single import decl...

Mr Gerard was most recently global customs director, North America, at Flexport, where he spent over five years building a 90-plus staff customs division. Prior to that, he was US Customs operations manager for Burberry  and manager of international logistics for Sony Pictures Entertainment. In...

Instead, the issue is lack of labour in factories and warehouses – maybe partially, some labour is returning, said Maersk recently – but as crucial is a lack of truck drivers, who are locked-down in their homes. Whether the ports are operating or not is immaterial if the cargo can’t get there,...

Residents called the police after hearing what sounded like multiple explosions from the open-air parking lot at Container Port Road, accompanied by raging flames and bursts of smoke. Firefighters arrived with 10 fire appliances and, using water and foam jets, took just under an hour to put out the ...

Last year, Schiphol outlined plans to increase charges to airlines by 9% this year, 12% next year and 12% in 2024. “The cumulative rise in charges is 37%,” said the airport at the time. “In the original proposal, this figure was 42%, but Schiphol made a downward adjustment after consultat...

Ahead of the closure, some vessels have already been waiting four to five days to berth at the port. Some 13 containerships were waiting at the outer anchorage today, while the yards held nearly 42,000 teu of containers of a total storage capacity of 49,018 teu. Fearing the congestion will be signif...

The high valuation affirms the high expectations for tech to curtail inefficiencies in road transport. Here, there are many opportunities for streamlining, due to the industry’s fragmented character, the company says. “The pandemic highlighted how important trucking is and how volatile and ineff...

An FMC investigation found it incorrectly applied detention and demurrage (D&D) charges to 11 containers handled by California drayage firm Golden State Logistics (GSL). The D&D charges levied to GSL amounted to $10,135, but the FMC’s Bureau of Enforcement (BOE), which Hapag-Lloyd had unsu...