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A rival railroad says Union Pacific’s chief executive frightened shippers away from a historic regulatory proceeding. Union Pacific (UP) denies making threats. The crucial question now is not just what Jim Vena said, but whether customers felt free to answer. How do you judge the public interest in a railroad merger i…
In this bonus episode of The Loadstar Podcast, we catch up with Loadstar publisher Alex Lennane, fresh from Miami, where she attended TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum (ACF). Ms Lennane shares her key takeaways from the event, including the atmosphere on the ground, major leadership changes across the air cargo industry, and wh…
Global schedule reliability has become more seasonal, while weekly liner service deployments have grown increasingly volatile since the pandemic, according to new analysis by Sea-Intelligence. Drawing on its Global Liner Performance database, which tracks monthly vessel arrivals from July 2011 to September 2026, the c…
After two ambitious Chinese-backed infrastructure projects were abandoned or stalled, Sierra Leone is turning to another Chinese partner to develop a “national” shipping industry. The financing model has changed, but familiar questions remain. On 19 October, Sierra Leone inaugurated its new national shipping company, …
The Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb are testing the resilience of Middle Eastern trade routes at the same time. Attacks on shipping, threats to energy infrastructure and doubts over maritime security are pushing operators to rethink their routes, vessel availability and insurance exposure. Even where commercial tra…
The seven OPEC+ countries, which previously announced additional voluntary adjustments in April and November 2023, namely Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria, and Oman met virtually on 1 November 2026, to review global market conditions and outlook. The seven participating countries decided to main…
Ukrainian Railways (UZ) plans to acquire up to 60 used locomotives over the next six months. A World Bank grant of $100 million (about €90 million) should help pay for them. Russian attacks have damaged 605 Ukrainian locomotives so far, the government says. The Ukrainian national rail operator UZ is pursuing several r…
Infrastructure managers and operators have handed the European Commission a compromise on rescheduling paths hit by temporary capacity restrictions, as it drafts rules under the EU’s Capacity Management Regulation. A separate operators’ paper goes further, demanding replacement paths at least 120 days ahead, up from a…
Hungary plans to increase funding for railway track and station renewals to HUF 80 billion (€218m) in 2027, from HUF 30 billion this year, while launching a wider investment programme intended to modernise the national network over the next decade. Transport and Investment Minister Dávid Vitézy announced the proposed …
PRESS RELEASE Nov 1, 2026 11:01 PM Eastern Standard Time AIT Worldwide Logistics Expands Global Footprint to Oceania with Acquisition of Australia-Based Forwarder Connor Anderson International Strategic investment increases AIT’s geographic reach, high-tech logistics support capabilities ITASCA, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–S…
Despite a record number of individual fiscal measures, the UK Budget, delivered by Chancellor John Healey, offered few new incentives for the rail sector. Rail freight can point to an extension of the reduced red diesel duty rate, while the wider railway receives a review of infrastructure costs and several regional i…
A round-up of the top maritime and shipping stories in October on the Seatrade Maritime Podcast
How reliable is container shipping right now, and what are the biggest factors impacting on-time performance? This week on News in Brief, Xeneta Chief Analyst Peter Sand joins us to unpack the latest schedule reliability data, explore how different carrier alliance strategies are performing, and examine the ongoing im…
A strong VLCC market this year is boosting Suezmax Tanker demand. Suezmax sales activity has picked up considerably in recent months, with sales so far this year up 35%, reaching 124 sales compared to 92 sales over the same period last year. Buyers have continued to transact even as values have climbed, pointing to st…
CNBC reports: The Nasdaq Composite tumbled on Friday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average outperformed as traders moved out of key stocks related to artificial intelligence and into more defensive areas of the market. The tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 2.86% and closed at 25,437.00, posting its worst single-day performance…
Deliveries in the past week have been primarily deployed to services between the Far East and Latin America, highlighting growing volumes on these trades. Alphaliner noted that Imabari Shipbuilding completed the 13,932 teu ONE Symphony that will be deployed on ONE’s Asia-WCSA AX3 service the pan-Japanese carrier runs …
CargoWise users handling British and Japanese customs declarations suffered messaging delays on Wednesday, while the backlog had been fully cleared the following morning. Customer notifications seen by The Loadstar show WiseTech acknowledged an issue affecting message responses at 10.37am on 28 October. At 11.24, it c…
The weather was dreadful, the blueberries were under suspicion, and there were people dressed as rats outside the convention centre. Inside, however, air cargo was in a remarkably good mood. At TIACA’s Air Cargo Forum in Miami this week, the airlines had turned up in force, people wanted to do business, and anyone wit…
Congestion today could mean a fresh wave of disputed detention and demurrage (D&D) charges tomorrow, according to Sara Dandan, founder of FourOneOne. She told The Loadstar disruption at ports, including growing backlogs of containers at Los Angeles and Long Beach, was likely to translate into extra invoices in the com…
Türkiye has invited bids to rehabilitate and electrify the railway between Divriği and the Georgian border, part of its section of the Middle Corridor. The work is divided into three lots that should greatly increase capacity on the route. Proposals are due on 22 December. Türkiye published the tender notice earlier t…
Container spot freight rates on the transpacific eastbound trade, as recorded by Drewry, saw its steepest one-week fall since June 2025 after this year’s protracted peak season came to an end. Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI) saw the spot rate on its Shanghai-Los Angeles decline 6% week on week, to end at $7,514 p…
The Port of Gothenburg has almost doubled the storage capacity of its Arken Intermodal Terminal. It did so without expanding the site. By rebuilding one of the terminal’s through tracks, about 4,000 square metres of handling space for trailers and other units has been freed up. The Swedish Port of Gothenburg announced…
PRESS RELEASE Walmart and Symbotic Expand Commercial Agreement to Support Supply Chain Transformation Building on more than a decade of collaboration, the companies will expand Symbotic automation across 25 U.S. regional distribution centers, while supporting opportunities across Walmart’s global supply chain WILMINGT…
The US ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach face potential disruption from Sunday, as around 250 security workers, represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 26, prepare for strike action amid the ongoing labour dispute. The latest labour contract extension will expire at 5pm Pacific Ti…
Third-quarter update: XPO grew shipments almost 6% while Old Dominion and FedEx Freight shipped less, and its margins held up far better than the season usually allows, but its headline price growth slowed to 3.6%. Management puts that down to heavier, shorter-haul freight spilling over from a squeezed truckload marke…
A collaboration between Wabtec and partners demonstrated Automated Shunting Operations (ASO) at Vienna’s Albern Hafen rail yard earlier this month. ASO should help improve productivity, mitigate staff shortages and improve operational safety. The technology will now proceed to pilot operations before commercial deploy…
A threatened Sunday walkout at Los Angeles and Long Beach may be delayed until Wednesday. The real danger is the reach of a small union local, with 35,688 containers already waiting for rail service. It takes a special kind of labor dispute to put half a port complex at risk with a workforce smaller than the guest lis…
The first trains through the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany will not run before 2035, three years later than previously expected. This is the assessment of Danish state-owned operator DSB, according to Danish media outlet Ingeniøren, while road traffic could start using the tunnel several years earlier…
The Polish Office for Rail Transport (UTK) warns that joint liability for customs debt could push Polish rail freight operators into insolvency. The regulator’s president will write to the ministers of infrastructure and finance, calling for an urgent analysis of the situation. The problem mainly concerns transports o…
The cleanup and restoration of the railway near Barking after last Friday’s derailment will continue well into next week. The work to recover a stranded intermodal train and repair damaged infrastructure is proving far more extensive than first hoped. New images released by c2c show the scale of the recovery operation…