Логистика, транспорт и Транскаспийский маршрут из 44 международных источников. Каждую статью читает ИИ: переводит на русский и оценивает влияние на Средний коридор по шкале от 0 до 10.
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, …
Airfreight markets are facing constant disruption, from shifting ecommerce flows and changing rates to tight capacity and growing uncertainty across major trade lanes. Tristan Koch, chief commercial officer at Awery Aviation Software, joins host Charlotte Goldstone to discuss the latest China-Europe ecommerce trends, …
With the last sailings before China’s Golden Week begins on 1 October, container spot rates on the transpacific trades finally began to tail off. Spot rates from Asia to the US west and east coasts have been consistently rising since the end of August in a late peak season pricing rally – last week they breached $10,0…
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) is looking to capture more Vietnamese export traffic through a new road-air corridor that takes cargo from Hanoi through mainland China before connecting with flights from Hong Kong. But while Hacis, the value-added logistics arm of Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (Hactl), has comp…
Airlines and forwarders cannot be expected to identify undeclared batteries in ecommerce parcels if sellers fail to pass on accurate product information, an ecommerce specialist has warned following IATA’s call for dangerous goods checks to move further upstream. In a new white paper, IATA said 81% of dangerous goods …
Global container shipping reliability is at its lowest level for four years, as the congestion in Asia continues to disrupt liner operations. According to Sea-Intelligence, schedule reliability fell by 5.9 percentage points month on month in August, to 49.9%, marking the second consecutive monthly decline. The analyst…
Container freight rates on the India-Middle East trade have continued to climb, as ports in the conflict-affected region grapple with operational challenges. According to data from market sources, spot rates from India to the Middle East have spiked by 25%, to 40%, since the last week of August, as vessel capacity pre…
Unrelenting congestion and rising bunker prices have pushed intra-Asia rates up for a month. Drewry's Intra-Asia Container Index climbed for a fourth straight week, with typhoon and geopolitical disruptions combining with pre-Golden Week (1 October) demand to drive up spot rates across key routes. On 17 September, int…
Some forwarders on Europe-SubSaharan Africa trades are continuing to report strong momentum, their feelings backed by data, as Container Trades Statistics (CTS) continues to report healthy volumes in both directions. CTS’s July data (it reports two months in arrears) shows volumes climbed 2.3% compared with 2025 figur…
China's Jiangyin and Nanjing have become the latest Yangtze River ports to demonstrate ocean-going ambitions. Yesterday, Cosco Shipping Specialised Carriers, the Cosco group's multi-purpose shipping arm, launched a container shipping service from Jiangyin to Mexico's Manzanillo. More than 500 containers, loaded with m…
Indian container trade stakeholders at JNPA (Nhava Sheva Port) are reporting a growing shortage of empty boxes for exports, as widespread vessel schedule disruption weighs on equipment shipping cycles. The shortage of empties is especially acute for French liner CMA CGM, according to market updates, but is affecting m…
Nearly three months after IATA introduced new rules governing Direct Air Waybills (DAWBs), there remains considerable confusion among airlines and freight forwarders over what has actually changed – and who is now liable when something goes wrong. Some forwarders appear unaware of the potential implications, while oth…
Hapag-Lloyd has cut contracted capacity allocations under its Quality Freight Product (QFP) service by as much as 40%, according to one forwarder, raising questions over the flexibility of the carrier’s guaranteed-capacity offering amid the disruption in Asia. QFP, launched in 2021, is a contractual service designed t…
The Global Coalition of Fresh Produce (GCFP), an alliance of produce shippers, wants to raise resilience and transparency in logistics through a charter of best practices, to be tabled next month. Its members are worried about reliability issues that pose an existential threat to their business. According to the GCFP,…
Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen is understood to have arrived in Israel this week for a series of crucial meetings to convince the government to give the greenlight for its takeover of Zim. “The CEO of the German company Hapag-Lloyd, Rolf Haven Janssen, will arrive in Israel tomorrow, Calcalist has learned. The pur…
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Look: Bloomberg's sources name UPS as the carrier of the F-35 parts China reportedly holds, while The Nightly's sources name Ceva Logistics. Lockheed calls the parts low risk, but the harder problem for logistics is how controlled cargo left its route at all. On Wednesday, as Xi Jinping landed near Washington for a st…
The launch of a full-blown trade war between the US and Canada, coupled with recent transatlantic talks between Canada and the EU, as well as the UK, is beginning to fundamentally change the country's freight flows. The US 50% tariffs on Canadian goods and the targeted response on US imports has provoked Canadian impo…
Forwarders are urging those engaged in trade between Europe and Latin America to “book earlier”, amid issues of availability and port congestion on both sides of the tradelane – albeit with little of this playing out in the present shape of rates. According to Container Trades Statistics (CTS), after a difficult start…
Uber Freight is stepping up investment in its European 4PL business, despite acknowledging that shippers increasingly care less about whether their logistics provider is labelled a 3PL or 4PL. The company yesterday announced plans to expand its European fourth-party logistics operation, investing in technology, operat…
The world’s largest container shipping lines are becoming less-reliant on chartered vessels – most of the top 10 carriers reducing their exposure significantly since the Covid-era freight boom. New analysis by Alphaliner shows the proportion of chartered capacity in the fleets of most major carriers has fallen since 2…
While global container shipping is entering its traditional fourth-quarter off-season, freight rates on the transpacific trade could stay high, according to Yang Ming chiefs. Yesterday, during an online investor conference, the Taiwanese shipping line executives pointed to a combination of Panama Canal constraints, li…
The earnings driving this year's rally in container shipping and air cargo have more to do with capacity trapped in the wrong place than with how much the world is buying and shipping. Disruption, not volume growth, has become the main earnings driver. The open question is how long that lasts once the specific shocks …
Pacific International Lines is preparing for a potentially significant leadership transition, after announcing that chief executive Lars Kastrup (above, right) is to step down and be replaced by Wan Chee Foong (above, left), currently MD, corporate strategy, at Temasek International, PIL’s owner. The Singapore-headqua…
… the full statement can be found here. In a nutshell: "The Offeror [a consortium led by FedEx and Advent International] and InPost are pleased to jointly announce that, given all Offer Conditions have been satisfied, the Offeror declares the Offer unconditional (doet gestand). Settlement will take place on 30 S…
Four in five of the AI-built quotes on cargo.one go out without a person touching them. Every team running at that number started at zero, with a person reading every quote, trusting none of them. What happened in between was not a leap of faith, and it was not simply time. Trust is a process, and like any process in …
This succession series began with a simple observation: plenty of European logistics entrepreneurs are getting older, while rather fewer sons and daughters seem interested in taking over the family forwarder. The second column looked at who might buy these businesses. The third ventured into the more delicate territor…
The orderbook-to-current fleet ratio of the global container fleet has hit a new high after last Friday’s confirmation by Maersk that it has placed firm orders for 26 new ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs). In addition, last week also saw French carrier CMA CGM place an order for another series of 24,000 teu ULCVs.…