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CH Robinson has strongly refuted allegations in a racketeering lawsuit brought by six US trucking companies, and confirmed that carriers within the Super Ego network are no longer part of its freight network. The company told The Loadstar that the complaint mischaracterised its carrier relationships and inaccurately d…
Look here: A fuel bill explains much of SF Holding's weak second quarter at its latest update, but it does not by itself explain the stock's valuation. SF trades between FedEx and UPS on 2026 earnings, but at less than half their EV/Ebitda multiple. KLN trades more cheaply still, but SF's 51.52% holding is worth only …
Look here: A fuel bill explains much of SF Holding's weak second quarter at its latest update, but it does not by itself explain the stock's valuation. SF trades between FedEx and UPS on 2026 earnings, but at less than half their EV/Ebitda multiple. KLN trades more cheaply still, but SF's 51.52% holding is worth only …
In case you missed it: US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can now void an importer of record (IOR) number the moment it finds inaccurate or borrowed details on Form 5106, and it tells the importer afterwards. The brokers and forwarders whose addresses and inboxes sit on those forms are the ones who will get the ph…
Nairobi appears to be moving beyond its traditional role as a flower-export gateway, with international cargo operators seeing new two-way flows emerging across perishables, ecommerce, pharmaceuticals and other time-sensitive cargo. Turkish Cargo, which operates four weekly freighter services to Nairobi, said the Keny…
Data-centre investment is reshaping trade flows and putting new pressure on the industry’s capacity balance, with hi-tech now the main engine of air cargo growth, according to consultancy Aevean. Aevean data shows hi-tech air trade reached 3m tonnes in the first seven months of 2026, compared with 2.8m tonnes for Chin…
  A profitable quote does not always become a profitable shipment. In this episode of The Loadstar Podcast, host Charlotte Goldstone asks where freight forwarders lose money between booking and delivery, and what they can do to protect their margins. Emma Crumpton, enterprise solutions director at Portcast, expla…
On September 17, 2025, CH Robinson published its Carrier of the Year winners. In the category for fleets of more than 1,000 trucks, the list read “Super Ego, Chicago, IL.” It was the kind of announcement a company posts, a few people like, and everyone forgets. A year later, six family-owned trucking companies put it …
FIDELITY's Jurrien Timmer writes: From playa decompression to P/E compression As has been the case for a few weeks now, the relative calm of the headline S&P 500 (SPX) masks quite a bit of turbulence underneath. The index is only 1% below its most recent all-time high as earnings continue to boom and margins conti…
German authorities are reportedly set to block Cosco’s acquisition of Hamburg logistics outfit Konrad Zippel, following pressure from security agencies that the deal would give China too great a handle across regional maritime infrastructure. Citing a “classified” note, German outlet Handelsblatt said the federal gove…
The strong, elongated container shipping peak season this year has led Hapag-Lloyd to add more than $1bn to its 2026 profit outlook. According to an investor note yesterday, its full-year EBITDA guidance has been upgraded, from $2.7bn-$3.7bn, to between $3.9bn and $4.4bn. Guidance for group EBIT has also been revised,…
Air cargo's next digital challenge is not simply digitising more processes, but connecting fragmented data across the supply chain, delegates at Aviation Connect in Athens heard today. According to Accenture Cargo’s product growth lead, Shanmugam Thangavelu, changing trade patterns, growing capacity, and the emergence…
Transpacific rates are set to fall – even as China and the US yesterday agreed to mutually cut tariffs on $30bn worth of goods, many of which move in containers. The “30-for-30” deal will see tariffs on more than 90% of listed products drop to standard, most-favoured-nation rates, covers a combined 1,696 product lines…
Cargo airlines operating into Mumbai appear caught up in a double-whammy: capacity restrictions at the old airport in Mumbai City, due to airside infrastructure upgrades; and unexpected teething troubles at the new hub, Navi Mumbai International (NMIA). Both airports at India’s commercial hub are managed by Adani Grou…
While the port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach has been processing record volumes through the summer, tonnages have slumped at the port of Oakland and the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) ports of Seattle and Tacoma. And for cargo owners, this means fewer options to navigate bottlenecks and disruption. The port…
Where we stand: US retail spending has held up into peak season, but US import demand appears to be holding rather than accelerating. In recent London meetings described in a 24 September JP Morgan note, Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) set out a more constructive view of its earnings mix: AI-related air cargo, Chinese brands exp…
On September 23, the day Xi Jinping landed in Washington, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the US-China trade truce would run two months longer, to January 10, 2027. A marine insurer briefed its members the next day. Four days later, two giant pandas landed in Atlanta. Then I went looking for the…
In a nutshell: The 66-page complaint six carriers filed in East Texas pleads every theory RICO offers, plus a false advertising claim for good measure. Read closely, it is weakest exactly where RICO cases usually die, and strongest where the brokerage industry is most exposed. On 17 September 2025, CH Robinson publish…
The Airforwarders Association (AfA) has appointed former Airlink president and chief executive Steve Smith as its new chief executive. He succeeds Brandon Fried, who has led the association for 21 years and will stay on during the transition. Mr Smith spent 13 years leading humanitarian logistics organisation Airlink,…
Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is seeking a private investor to develop a second inland container terminal at Pangaon, offering 22 acres beside the existing facility near Dhaka. The proposed terminal would add capacity for containers moving by barge between the capital and Chittagong Port, giving shippers another way…
Gemini Cooperation partners Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will next month reroute their Asia-Med Loop 1 to transit the Suez Canal and Red Sea in both directions. Known as AE12 by Maersk and SE1 by Hapag-Lloyd, the string will become the fourth mainline service the Gemini partners have returned to Suez routings, following the…
CH Robinson and Total Quality Logistics (TQL) face a racketeering lawsuit from six US trucking companies that accuse them of winning freight with allegedly non-compliant carriers at prices the plaintiffs could not match. One plaintiff, Freymiller Trucking, says it has identified $51.2m in lost sales across 63 customer…
Back in Egypt again for the fifth time in two years, slowly becoming an expert on Cairo and starting to train local Uber drivers on shortcuts. Being my first trip since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, I wondered what the mood in a place like Egypt would be, where the energy price shock from the war should hit …
Vessel space demand from China to India continues to be strong, keeping container freight rates on the intra-Asia tradelane elevated. For example, average spot rates from Shanghai to JNPA have climbed 20% since end-August, and currently stand at around $3,700 per teu and $3,850 per 40ft, according to new data from mar…
Quick update: Washington and Beijing have pushed their Busan truce, including the suspension of port fees on each other’s ships, to 10 January. That buys shippers time, and it sets a new cliff four weeks before Chinese New Year. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on 23 September that Washington and Beijing had agre…
Cosco Shipping Specialized Carriers, has started shipping BYD electric vehicles in frame containers to Brazil from Zhuhai Port, in China’s Guangdong province. The move is a solution to the shortage of car-carrier vessels (PCTCs) and meet the high demand from Brazil, which is now the largest importer of Chinese cars, b…
Recap: the Surface Transportation Board (STB) has made permanent the head of the office that tests merger economics, eight weeks before opening comments on Union Pacific's bid for Norfolk Southern fall due. A leaner agency will do that work, and shippers who want their objections to land should bring their own data. O…
A surge in vessel delays, driven by typhoons and port disruption in Asia, has left 8.5% of the global container fleet effectively unavailable. New analysis from Sea-Intelligence suggests this equates to some 3m teu of vessel capacity – a fleet roughly equivalent in size to that of the world’s fifth-largest carrier. Sc…
Casual observers shared plenty of insight on social media earlier this month about AP Møller-Mærsk's (APMM) multi-year strategy as a "global integrator of container logistics" after a press briefing with CEO Vincent Clerc. Undoubtedly, APMM has learnt a lot from past mistakes – and not only in its core ocean shipping …
What’s keeping Transpacific freight rates elevated as the peak season approaches? This week, Gavin van Marle joins us to discuss the latest rate movements, the changing US-Canada trade relationship and a significant leadership shake-up at PIL. Plus, Awery’s Tristan Koch joins us to examine the latest airfreight data, …