According to a report by market researcher CRISIL, the crisis plaguing Colombo – the busiest intermediate port or transhipment hub for Indian cargo – could see some of the mainline services regularly calling shift to other ports in the region. “Colombo is a major transhipment hub for south Asi...

Before its arrival, ground handlers would have to wait for freight to arrive before combing through paper documents to nominate a forwarder to handle a shipment. Since October, Schiphol has been leveraging the new AI tool, developed by the Smart Cargo Mainport Program (SCMP) team, to nominate a forw...

  Start-up: Voxel Device: site visibility Voxel uses existing camera infrastructure and adds AI to identify hazards, high-risk activities and operational inefficiencies. It boasts safety monitoring, injury and accident prevention and operational visibility among its benefits. It is best suited ...

The carrier’s decision to send the 8,400 teu Maersk Stralsund to Durban, rather than discharge its Asian imports at Port Elizabeth, came after port operator Transnet confirmed it had managed to reopen part of the access road. The state-owned authority tweeted: “Phase 1 of Bayhead restoratio...

The forwarder reported the “malicious and targeted” cyber-attack on 20 February, which forced the shutdown of its global operating systems for repair. Because of the attack, the FMC gave Expeditors a temporary exemption from its tariff reporting requirements on 8 March, which the commission said...

Yesterday’s failed inspection of the Spirit of Britain was compounded by the re-inspection failure of the Pride of Kent today, and the ferry company had apparently seemingly received early warnings of this. P&O Ferries tweeted at 3:10pm yesterday that it would not operate any service...

It says the logistics sector could be operating in less favourable market conditions this year than initially anticipated. In its latest analysis on the outlook for world trade over the next two years, published this week, the Geneva-based international agency is now expecting merchandise trade volu...

The exporters would use cheaper sea freight to get the goods to Russia, and then rail the goods to Europe, but sea freight is no longer viable as many liner operators have suspended sailings to the sanctioned country. Now, non-sanctioned goods are being transported via eastern Russia for the do...

Start-up: Plug and Play Plug and Play, founded in 2016, is a conduit between start-ups and large corporations, as well as being a seed investor. Its large Silicon Valley-based building is a “sourcing channel for venture firms”. It has so far sourced nearly 4,000 start-ups, accelerated more than ...