Contargo announced it would be increasing an emergency surcharge of €10 per transport of full or empty containers to €25 from 1 September, heaping new misery on shippers that faced a week of closures on the Rhine. Contargo said: “As well as the massive problems in seaports, substantial bottle...

Mr Widelund has extensive experience in the logistics and transport sector, beginning his career at Nordisk Transport, responsible for traffic sales. His next role was taking responsibility for freight procurement at Swedish industrial manufacturer Alimak, which was followed by a stint as site mana...

Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) has steadily ramped up cargo movement contracts on the route, moving some 114 containers and 3,000 tonnes of other freight between May and July, according to regional industry sources. Some of that traction could be attributed to a new currency tradin...

To nobody’s surprise, the integrator is raising surcharges for parcel deliveries, with the biggest impact hitting large shippers, as much of the mechanism is volume-based, hitting those that send more than 20,000 packages a week. The surcharges will kick in on 30 October, and stay until 14 Januar...

During the 20th Annual Fleet Forum Conference, Euro Transporter have been named as the winner of the UPS sponsored Best Transport Achievement Award, for their ambitious Fleet Transformation Project.​Each year we receive multiple ambitious entries for the award, which means a leap forward for the o...

Heartland Express is to acquire Contract Freighters’ dry van and temperature-controlled truckload business and CFI Logistica’s operations in Mexico, both from TFI International, for $525m. The merger excludes CFI Dedicated and CFI Logistics US brokerage operations, which were retained by TFI. ...

Moreover, a wage settlement last week at German ports is also expected to relieve the high yard density at Hamburg’s box terminals in the coming weeks. According to new weekly data produced by supply chain intelligence company eeSea for the port of Rotterdam, congestion at the Dutch gateway and n...

The veteran journalist will trek for more than 10 days on behalf of the UK’s the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN). Mr King said he was motivated by the poor treatment of seafarers during the Covid pandemic. “I thought the treatment of these crews was abhorrent,...

Close on the heels of a Kolkata to Dhaka container-on-barge service for India-Bangladesh cross-border trade, Maersk India has piloted a similar offering on the domestic leg on the Bay of Bengal coast line from Kolkata to Meghalaya – a north-eastern state facing historical supply chain constraints....

The Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association (BICDA) held two meetings with the Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association and Bangladesh Shipping Agents Association and took the decision to raise charges after “finding no other options”. The government raised petrol prices by 51.1% on 6 Au...