Meanwhile, the carrier’s belly capacity is also on the rise in international sectors. On 4 August, Latin America’s largest carrier took delivery of the fourth B767BCF of an order placed last year to convert some of its passenger aircraft into all-cargo configuration. “This freighter will allow...

It forms part of the Belt and Road initiative in what has become a competition hot-spot on the African continent. Yesterday’s announcement of a link-up between India’s Adani Group and Abu Dhabi Ports to develop a port and logistics hub in Tanzania today was matched by China’s second-busiest co...

The partners said they aimed to offer end-to-end logistics infrastructure and solutions covering rail, ports, maritime services, digital services and industrial zones in the East African country. “A series of potential country-level investments to grow, improve, and promote an end-to-end maritime ...

Some are working with parcel carriers, while others banish them from central areas. Purolator Courier, Canada’s largest parcel and express carrier, is experimenting with a new distribution concept for e-commerce in the nation’s largest city, Toronto. Last month, it opened a mini retail outlet in...

These are imposed by carriers on customers unable to return empty containers before a certain deadline. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) chairman Daniel Maffei told representatives of the trucking and terminal operating community at the port of New York and New Jersey shippers should instead be com...

CEO Abe Eshkenazi pointed to the repercussions of the heat wave that has hit large parts of Europe, producing wildfires that have forced people from their homes, disrupted transport services and destroyed crops. He added that the economic fallout was “massive”, citing a study last year by Europe...

Having already imposed low water surcharges on the Kaub guage, Contargo announced a similar charge for the Duisburg-Ruhrort and Emmerich gauge and warned “some schedules will not be able to be adhered to”. “Departures and arrivals will have to be co-ordinated on a case-by-case basis,” Contar...

Following calls from air freight shippers to increase visibility, Mr McCandless told Logistic-News that, despite higher API connectivity in air, end-to-end visibility was still complex. “The real problem is that the pain point isn’t in the air, it’s elsewhere. The difficulty is in the trucks th...

This propelled the container spot rate back over $10,000, to $10,494 per 40ft – but the spike is being seen as a temporary blip, given that other indices and market fundamentals are all heading in the reverse direction. Indeed, Xeneta’s XSI North Europe reading fell a further 4.5% this week, to ...

This will entail investment of around $250m across the shipping line’s 1.6 million boxes. While many reefer containers are already fitted with such equipment, Hapag-Lloyd is considered a first-mover in equipping ordinary containers with tracking, which includes GPS location data, tempera...