Nevertheless, he felt compelled to act by a series of events, starting with the global climate strike, a walk-out following the firing of staff after complaints about lack of safety in Amazon warehouses. He names the workers that were fired – all people of colour or women – but also acknowledges...

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Toll’s website does not mention it, however, and Logistic-News is awaiting confirmation from the company. However,Toll told IT News it did not think the activity was connected to its ransomware attack on 31 January, from which it took some weeks to recover. Read mo...

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He said customers should “think about their supply chain and they will take more lead times for the inventory, if they have enough in stock, and put it on shipping lines, even for higher-value products. The capacity on the sea vessels is significantly larger than the airfreight.” He also believe...

According to American Shipper, Maersk has notified GCT it intended to move to Port Elizabeth on 1 May, but under the terms of the contract between GCT and Maersk, the earliest the lines could leave would be at the end of 2021. In its court filing, GCT president John Atkins alleges “that Maersk and...

Noting that the group has suspended the publication of its Global Trade Barometer, which is unable to read accurately the current pressures, Mr Scharwath said that while the initial data (pre-Covid) was showing improvement, he remained optimistic – his  confidence boosted by how people are de...

The lives (and loves) of maritime celebrities such as Admiral Nelson, Ferdinand Magellan and Captain Cook are well known; the early coughs of globalisation via the buccaneering and brutal British and Dutch East India companies have been equally well charted, but who were the thousands of men (and of...

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