Know Your Product has undergone trials with major customers and is set to roll out this year, initially focusing on compliance regulations for entry into UK and EU markets. Hong Kong-based Topo said there was mounting pressure on supply chain compliance, with an increasing scrutiny on sustainability...

Secretary general of the Global Shippers Forum James Hookham told Logistic-News he does not buy into the view that there is a trend towards de-globalisation, nor a specific shift away from the people’s republic. “There is this very colonial view that businesses in the west can snap their fin...

There are doubts, however, that the integrator can come to grips with a festering problem affecting its performance. From 15 August, FedEx Ground will no longer deliver parcels on Sundays to “certain lower-population markets”, the company announced, adding that this would reduce its coverage of ...

The price tag is well below the rumoured £725m China’s HNA Group was reported to have earmarked to ink a deal in mid-2018, before its talks with Gist owner German chemicals giant Linde collapsed. Linde had reportedly put Gist on the block as far back as 2015, with Morgan Stanley hired to find a b...

Ukrainian Black Sea and Azov Sea ports shut down shortly after the invasion, and Russian naval forces blocked Ukrainian facilities, threatening to attack any merchant (and non-merchant) vessels attempting to approach the terminals. At least 16 merchant ships have been fired on since the beginning of...

Maersk Line has piloted a container-on-barge solution for Indian exports to its neighbour using the framework of a government-to-government “inland water transit and trade protocol”, designed to facilitate river transport along the Bay of Bengal. The MV Pradyun transported 50 teu from Kolka...

The family-owned Irish haulier and warehouse operator provides door-to-door transport for full- and part-loads, as well as distribution services, largely on behalf of consumer goods companies – it counts Mondelez on its client list – as well as logistics solutions including warehousing, inventor...

But K+N is targeting SMEs for its growth, as its larger customers adopt a more cautious approach to consumer demand. Outgoing CEO Dr Detlef Trefzger said that, while the larger retailers “became cautious” due to supply chain disruptions and had increased their inventory levels, small and medium-...

And agriculture shippers hope there will be no repeat of the blockage. “The port of Oakland has resumed full operations,” announced a relieved port executive director Danny Wan yesterday, after truckers had decided not to continue their action at the port’s gates. In protest against California...

In a letter to EC executive VP Margrethe Vestager, shippers take issue with the commission’s view that competition in the market is strong and working within the CBER guidelines. Last year, letters on 13 April and 14 September did not appear to shift the European competition regulator’s stance, ...