Understandably the pair dropped the service guarantees in the early days of the Covid outbreak as their networks, slowed by health measures, were flooded with parcels. Last year both signalled a kind of return to normality when the money-back guarantees were reinstated – but only for express traff...

Rates for North Europe and the Mediterranean are holding steady at about $10,000 and $12,000 per 40 ft respectivel, according to the latest readings from the WCI, FBX and XSI spot rate indices. This is despite anecdotal reports to Logistic-News that several ships sailed from Asia to North Europe this...

The ability to measure changes in temperature in real time potentially overcomes one of the main problems shipping lines have been struggling with for a long time – the early detection of, and tackling of, fires inside containers. “As an incident starts to unfold, having that early warning is cr...

Advisory notices from the vessel owner, CMA CGM have been sent to cargo interests, but the company has still not made an official announcement of the accident and so the extent of the cargo loss, any damage to the vessel and, crucially, whether the crew are safe remains unclear. Claims consultancy W...

Boxes have piled up at the ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert, as it takes longer to move them off the docks to urban centres in the east. On 12 July, three out of four container facilities at the port of Vancouver (Centerm, Deltaport and Fraser Valley Docks) showed box dwell times in excess of se...

More boxes could mean a higher risk of transporting unwanted organisms, but would also help reduce the increased dwell times at destination ports in Europe and the US. Nevertheless, the issue of cleaning containers inside and out to prevent the spread of potentially harmful insects and other wildlif...

The summer airport chaos has led to a very public spat between Emirates and Heathrow, in what is likely to be a continuing row between airports and airlines. On Tuesday, Heathrow told airlines that it was introducing an immediate capacity cap until 11 September, limited to 100,000 departing passenge...

Last minute talks between the employers, the Central Association of German Seaport Companies (ZDS) and the trade union ver.di, representing 12,000 port workers, were suspended yesterday evening with no agreement in sight. The third ‘warning strike’ is the longest so far and will further aggravat...

By 2026, HMM aims to grow its container shipping fleet to 1.2m teu, from the present size of 820,000 teu, and will also expand its dry bulk fleet to 55 ships, from 29 vessels currently. While container freight rates have been at historically high levels, the dry bulk market has also been healthy, an...

The move ostensibly has a two-pronged goal: to get around mounting challenges for trade with Russia in the wake of global sanctions on Moscow, and to curtail the demand for dollar payments. “In order to promote growth of global trade with emphasis on exports from India and to support the increasin...