“The two key words for us are reliability and flexibility,” said Denis Choumert, chair of the European Shippers’ Council. “We need to switch to quicker and more efficient services and want permanent flexibility at the regulatory level,” he told delegates at Tiaca’s regional symposium in ...

It also claims biofuel needlessly increases costs for end users. The group’s surprise condemnation follows a T&E report this week, which appears to suggest a transition to biodiesel, among other next-generation fuels like e-methanol and e-ammonia, would be both affordable and sustainable, noti...

SGL management described the acquisition as a “game-changing step”, as it would “allow for further penetration in segments like technology and pharma and healthcare”, and comes on the back of its 2021 purchase of European freight forwarder Horizon International Cargo, a longstanding partner ...

The new terminal is part of the Belt and Road initiative and integral to the New International Land Sea Trade Corridor, which connects landlocked Chongqing by rail with Qinzhou in the west from where cargo can be shipped worldwide. It is estimated that in the terminal’s first phase, annual capacit...

Shipping consultant Drewry said there would be almost nine million boxes fitted with tracking and telemetry equipment by 2026, with Hapag-Lloyd’s decision to fit trackers to its fleet of dry boxes likely to initiate a scramble among container lines to implement similar systems. However, Mike Yarwo...

Christian Dufermont, freight commercial director, told Logistic-News the unaccompanied business had accelerated at pace since its launch last September, but significantly since March. “We have handled 1,000 trucks in the two months following March, about 500 unaccompanied trailers a month, and...

Peeba launched its online B2B marketplace during the Covid-lockdowns in 2020, when retailers were unable to attend tradeshows and in-person meetings to source new products. Even without the pandemic, the company said, relying on face-to-face meetings was “slow and arduous” and it created its B2B...

Transport & Environment (T&E) today said the results of passing on the cost of clean shipping to the end customer would be ‘negligible’. In the past, the cost of transport for a pair of the ubiquitous trainers was put at one cent, today T&E ague that the decarbonisation will increase...

The funds were invested in a Series C round that is usually a start-up’s final phase of venture capital financing. With this latest tranche, Deliveree, which operates in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines (under the brand Transportify) has raised $109m in the past five years While Deliveree h...

Ocean freight Since the reopening of Shanghai, we have seen mixed signals from the market. Though commercially, companies are returning to the office, the manufacturing ramp-up is proving to be a more prolonged process. As a result, the overall market remains softer than predicted. As recently repor...