Unions have written to the Department for Transport complaining that a planned welfare inspection on Tuesday was denied by P&O, these inspections being part of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), an agreement between employers, the UK government and unions. International Transport Workers Fede...

In the years before Covid, Amazon had been a relentless pace-setter, playing a major role in satisfying consumer expectations that online orders should reach them within two days, at no cost. The online giant had deep enough pockets to subsidise this drive, which forced smaller competitors to follow...

According to the European Pallet Association. (EPAL), more than 600 million of its pallets and 20m of its box pallets are in circulation. For weeks now, the sector, already operating under challenging market conditions triggered by Covid and the resulting supply chain disruption, is experiencing add...

Guests: Cathy Roberson, president of Logistics Trends & Insights Tom Enright, VP, retail supply chain, Gartner Peter Sand, chief analyst at Xeneta Lee Klaskow, senior analyst for transportation and logistics at Bloomberg Intelligence Neel Jones Shah, Flexport...

The proposals are to develop four inland logistics centres in California, stretching from Sacramento in the north to Bakersfield, north of Los Angeles, in California’s central valley area. No site has been selected yet, but the plan is to alleviate the pressure on the LA port complex while also of...

According to predictive intelligence company Windward, there were 506 container vessels waiting outside Chinese ports on 12-13 April, compared with 470 in March and 260 in February, before the first major lockdown began in Shenzhen. The company said: “Lockdowns in China are heavily impacting the c...

Recession may be on the cards, but for now, larger players are still enjoying a strong market – especially if they have signed clients on contract rates. Business took a marked turn for the worse in the latter half of March; after robust growth that pushed trucking rates into the stratosphere, key...

Wu Chungeng, head of public roads, said last week, vessels operated by mainline operators spent an average of 2.02 days in the port, down 44% on year ago and down 2% compared with January and February. Mr Wu added that ship-tracking data indicated that, overall, vessels spent an average of 0.99 days...

Start-up: Oloid (Only Look Once Identity) Device: facial recognition   Oloid is a physical identity platform, offering contactless facial recognition “for the deskless worker”. The hardware is not important – any device will do – it’s the software that makes the difference. Oloid has ...

The line-up of ships waiting for berth space has diminished over recent months, but the ports and their users fear this could reverse if the railways cannot resolve the worsening build-up of containers. Port executives have warned that the long-delayed fee for boxes remaining on their premises too l...