In an earnings call, CEO Carol Tome noted that the integrator saw volumes fall, missing its forecast by some 222,000 packages a day. “I would call that pretty close to being on forecast,” she said. “More than half of the volume decline in the United States was based on actions we took with a f...

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Ukrainian Black Sea and Azov Sea ports shut down shortly after the invasion, and Russian naval forces blocked Ukrainian facilities, threatening to attack any merchant (and non-merchant) vessels attempting to approach the terminals. At least 16 merchant ships have been fired on since the beginning of...

Maersk Line has piloted a container-on-barge solution for Indian exports to its neighbour using the framework of a government-to-government “inland water transit and trade protocol”, designed to facilitate river transport along the Bay of Bengal. The MV Pradyun transported 50 teu from Kolka...

The family-owned Irish haulier and warehouse operator provides door-to-door transport for full- and part-loads, as well as distribution services, largely on behalf of consumer goods companies – it counts Mondelez on its client list – as well as logistics solutions including warehousing, inventor...

But K+N is targeting SMEs for its growth, as its larger customers adopt a more cautious approach to consumer demand. Outgoing CEO Dr Detlef Trefzger said that, while the larger retailers “became cautious” due to supply chain disruptions and had increased their inventory levels, small and medium-...

And agriculture shippers hope there will be no repeat of the blockage. “The port of Oakland has resumed full operations,” announced a relieved port executive director Danny Wan yesterday, after truckers had decided not to continue their action at the port’s gates. In protest against California...

In a letter to EC executive VP Margrethe Vestager, shippers take issue with the commission’s view that competition in the market is strong and working within the CBER guidelines. Last year, letters on 13 April and 14 September did not appear to shift the European competition regulator’s stance, ...

Exacerbating that lingering trade concern, Hapag-Lloyd has announced a stream of intermittent void calls on its Indian Ocean Service (IOS) between West India and North Europe from August through November. ONE is also a consortium partner for the IOS, contributing one vessel out of a total eight ship...

Oakland International Container Terminal and the Stevedoring Services of America (SSA), which operates Matson’s Oakland facility, have been closed to traffic, with ships anchoring outside waiting to berth. Also slowing the working of vessels has been the reluctance of dockers from the Internationa...