Close on the heels of a Kolkata to Dhaka container-on-barge service for India-Bangladesh cross-border trade, Maersk India has piloted a similar offering on the domestic leg on the Bay of Bengal coast line from Kolkata to Meghalaya – a north-eastern state facing historical supply chain constraints....

Mr Jacobs will remain with XPO as executive chairman and will become non-executive chairman of the spin-off. Mr Harik has also been named president of the less-than-truckload (LTL) unit, effective immediately, after serving as acting LTL president since October. The company plans to become a pure-...

The country’s main perishables export organisations have been in talks with the ministries of transport and economy to find solutions to problems that have taken a heavy toll on fruit shipments to overseas markets. The aim is to find measures that can improve port efficiency, address shortages of...

The Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association (BICDA) held two meetings with the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association and Bangladesh Shipping Agents Association and took the decision to raise charges after “finding no other options”. The government raised petrol prices by 51.1% on 6 Au...

Flexport founder Ryan Petersen is set to act as co-chief executive for six months after Mr Clark joins on 1 September and will then take the newly created executive chairman role. “Flexport is on its way to becoming one of the world’s most important technology platforms for supply chain and log...

Speaking exclusively to Logistic-News, Mr Kenney said the FMC’s proposed emergency order would require carriers to share information about cargo availability directly with shippers, truckers and rail carriers. But for there to be a significant change to the levels of congestion, more drastic actio...

This section analyses the biggest news stories of the summer, including industrial unrest at European ports, the latest from China and why US west coast port congestion has shifted east. It also includes a full briefing on air and ocean freight rates. In par...

The news comes three days into an eight-day strike at the UK’s largest container port of Felixstowe, from where Cosco and Maersk are rerouting services, causing headaches for forwarders struggling to move goods overland. CMA CGM said: “The dates of the strikes have yet to be announced. However,...

Bank holiday working at the port would normally be possible with overtime, but as part of its increasingly acrimonious spat with the Unite union, the port management is refusing to work ships already alongside, or that could be alongside on Monday morning. They include the 17,816 teu Evelyn Maersk�...

A more likely variant these days is handling facilities for online carriers at an airport coming onstream outside the perimeter fence. This spring airfreight handling firm Aeroterm acquired two warehouses within ten minutes of Montreal’s Trudeau Airport. The two buildings, which have a combined f...