Amazon, famed for using predictive analytics to position inventory close to anticipated markets, has been less successful in terms of anticipating staffing and warehousing needs, going on a hiring spree and raking in as much warehouse space as possible. Now the company has warehouses with empty shel...

Shipping lines have been regularly updating customers on the status of empty-container depots and the availability of line haulage, but have little visibility of how intermodal capacity will look when the lockdown ends. “We are in unchartered waters, and I think it will be a ‘suck it and see’ ...

DP World wants “to offer a link to consumers through a one-stop multimodal logistics solution” that will make “European supply chains efficient, fast and sustainable”. Hot on the heels of its acquisition of Imperial Logistics, a South African company with an international logistics division ...

Rogier Spoel, senior policy manager air and ocean freight at Dutch shipper association evofenedex, said companies in the textiles industry had begun moving to Turkey and North Africa, for example. “We’re not seeing a permanent shift, but there’s a lot more ‘production spreading’ going on,�...

DP-DHL board member Tim Scharwath told Logistic-News today that when the effects of external factors like the war in Ukraine and the global pandemic subside, the drive for more efficient and cleaner supply chains will be irresistible. “Major DAX companies here in Germany show better results this ye...

Earlier, the regulators agreed they had found no evidence of rate collusion by carriers during the supply chain crisis, but that demand spikes caused elevated pricing levels. But it appears the jury is still out among regulators over allegations of dominance by the shipping alliances, fuelled by num...

A global average temperature change of between 1.5-3°C may headline the discussion, but, as the UK’s Meteorological Office expert Rosie Oates explains, it is the more subtle disruptions to existing weather patterns which will most interfere with logistics. She said: “As the sea surface heats up...

The two countries are also working on a joint-venture rail company in a bid to help Ukraine continue exporting – a challenge since the Russian invasion. Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy said the joint customs plan was a first part of a possible integration of the country into the EU. Reuters report...

Peel Port’s chief operating officer David Huck told Logistic-News he was confident Sheerness would see new services operating from the Medway port within the next six months. “We will challenge Dover, with cargo increasingly moving to unaccompanied facilities,” said Mr Huck. Indeed, offici...

The electronic B/L, approved by the International Chamber of Commerce, uses blockchain to authenticate documents and provide an audit trail. FIATA said the solution was designed to “answer the needs of the industry for improved access and exchange of trade documents”. The document issuer can dec...