The integration saw TNT’s hub at Liège Airport, in Belgium, relegated to secondary or regional status, resulting in heavy job losses. Speaking at an Investor Day at the end of last month, Karen Reddington, president, FedEx Express Europe, revealed that the air network integration will bring benef...

According to a new report by agribusiness specialist Rabobank, while container shipping costs will continue to decline over the next year, they are unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels due to “broader structural factors”. For example, it said “geographical uncertainties” were creating r...

The airport is set to see volumes grow, in particular from the fourth quarter when Maersk moves its air freight operations to the Danish airport. Kaspar Andreas Nissen, the airport’s market & route development manager, told Logistic-News: “We have a huge potential to further establish direct ...

The first flight departed from Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport on 8 July and there will be three weekly flights, all using chartered Boeing freighters, but details of the aircraft and the charterer were not currently available. However, Cainiao will be able to deliver the goods to KL in four...

The industrial action by 12,000 port workers will halt operations at the key container hubs of Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven, and will be the third and longest period of industrial action in the increasingly bitter wage dispute. If the strike goes ahead, it will have a serious impact on lin...

It came almost a year after Amazon won the tender process for the redevelopment of two ageing warehouses on the north side of the airport, on 5 August last year. It had pledged to spend $125m on the revamp of the buildings, taking the property under a 20-year lease. The operation was slated to come ...

The India-Europe tradelane has been the hardest hit by service disruptions. MSC blanked calls to the west coast ports of Nhava Sheva (JNPT) and Mundra last week on both its premier connections – branded the Himalaya Express (HEX) and IPAK. The two ports command the bulk of Indian containerised car...

Usually some 6,000 teu of outbound containers are waiting for shipment, but an extra 3,300 teu are now waiting following a suspension of trucks from highways, due to Eid. The seven-day truck suspension was imposed in order to facilitate the movement of public buses and other vehicles for people leav...

APL Fullerton, a 17,300 teu sister ship to the APL Vanda, is currently in the Mediterranean, north of Alexandria and steaming towards Tangier, with an estimated date of arrival on 19 July, 11 days before the Vanda, currently still at anchor off Djibouti according to the latest AIS data from VesselsV...

Some 90 vessels are involved in the agreement. Martin Gaard Christiansen, chief commercial officer at Unifeeder, said that it had been chosen to provide these services “after extensive market research”. The company wants to reduce its emissions by 50% per container by 2040, he said. “We recogn...