The port improved its 7% wage increase offer yesterday with a lump sum payment of £500 ($606), but this was rejected by negotiators of the Unite union. There are no further meetings planned before the eight-day strike starts on 21 August, and shipping lines plan to reschedule calls at the port, som...

Some are working with parcel carriers, while others banish them from central areas. Purolator Courier, Canada’s largest parcel and express carrier, is experimenting with a new distribution concept for e-commerce in the nation’s largest city, Toronto. Last month, it opened a mini retail outlet in...

These are imposed by carriers on customers unable to return empty containers before a certain deadline. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) chairman Daniel Maffei told representatives of the trucking and terminal operating community at the port of New York and New Jersey shippers should instead be com...

Korean Airlines and Asiana Airlines have cancelled flights to Taiwan, a move emulated by many airlines with safety concerns. Shipping saw less disruption, as some liner operators chose to detour to get to the Taiwan Strait. South Korea’s HMM, SM Line, Pan Ocean and KMTC Line all said they wer...

CEO Abe Eshkenazi pointed to the repercussions of the heat wave that has hit large parts of Europe, producing wildfires that have forced people from their homes, disrupted transport services and destroyed crops. He added that the economic fallout was “massive”, citing a study last year by Europe...

Over 1,900 workers at the UK’s biggest container port voted overwhelmingly to take strike action after the Hutchison-owned employer declined to improve its wage increase offer at ACAS on Thursday. Ocean carriers serving the port are adopting a “wait and see” strategy, but may have few options ...

Maersk and CMA CGM have pursued a fast-paced strategy that has transformed them from being largely box carriers into end-to-end logistics players, some would say integrators. Today, they are also forces to be reckoned with in air freight – having set up their own airlines, acquired freighters and ...

Having already imposed low water surcharges on the Kaub guage, Contargo announced a similar charge for the Duisburg-Ruhrort and Emmerich gauge and warned “some schedules will not be able to be adhered to”. “Departures and arrivals will have to be co-ordinated on a case-by-case basis,” Contar...

Following calls from air freight shippers to increase visibility, Mr McCandless told Logistic-News that, despite higher API connectivity in air, end-to-end visibility was still complex. “The real problem is that the pain point isn’t in the air, it’s elsewhere. The difficulty is in the trucks th...

In a podcast organised by Australia-based consultancy Logistics Executive Group, he began with a reminder of how, early in the year, air cargo continued to be buoyed by the “phenomenal” demand of 2021. Capacity was still “woefully inadequate”, rates were “rocketing sky-high”, but the hig...