The independent service is further evidence of MSC’s growth aspirations across global trades, particularly where it sees a gap opening in the market. According to maritime and supply chain intelligence company eeSea, MSC has added three independent services on the transatlantic tradelane in the pa...

While Shanghai emerged from a two-month Covid-19 lockdown early this month, parts of the port city have had movement restrictions re-imposed after new outbreaks. Nippon Express has developed barge routes covering the Greater Bay Area by detouring by land to the east (Huizhou Port) and west (Zhuhai P...

Like most European forwarders, Netherlands-based Rail Bridge Cargo initially suspended its service through Russia when the war in Ukraine began. However, MD Igor Tambaca said some customers had requested Russian freight options again. He told Logistic-News: “We could not look away from compani...

The aim is to undercut the big carriers and offer some relief to “squeezed-out” perishables shippers. The company has ordered four 1,800teu containerships from the Huanghai Shipyard in China, due for delivery from October 2023. The vessels, Seatrade said, willeach  have around 1,300 reefer ...

And, shippers have cause to re-examine their trucking strategy again. This year, many US shippers changed course and signed freight contracts to secure truckload capacity in a tight market and hedge against further rate escalation. Spot rates had soared to new heights by January, after a year of fra...

In the past, Boeing would move planes down the assembly line and install the missing parts afterwards. This time it paused aircraft on the line. Boeing has a host of undelivered 737 MAXs and 787s on its hands, the latter owing to inspections and repairs after small cracks were found in structural jo...

Crane Worldwide Logistics said Shanghai was operating as usual after yet another round of mass testing, noting only shippers with facilities in quarantined areas would be impacted. The forwarder added: “The majority of cities outside of Shanghai are now accepting trucks and drivers, so long as a d...

Starting Q220, the breakbulk, MPP and heavylift sectors were rescued from the pre-pandemic doldrums by spillover capacity from the container segment. Many were hired in private charters to carry boxes on deck and the MPP time charter index has doubled since this began. But the latest evidence sugges...

Having surveyed some 1,500 commercial road transport operators in 25 countries in the Americas, Asia and Europe, the International Road Transport Union (IRU) found truck driver shortages had increased in all regions last year except Eurasia, with China’s more than doubling and Europe’s clim...

The White House announced that Mr Biden’s signature meant the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) could issue new rules “related to certain fee assessments, prohibited practices”. In addition, OSRA will establish a shipping registry while also authorising the FMC, in certain circumstances, to is...