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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…
Soaring tanker freight rates are taking an increasingly heavy toll on the world’s oil majors, with the latest quarterly results revealing billions of dollars in additional shipping-related liabilities, squeezed refining margins and losses on trading positions. Shell has disclosed a $5.4bn non-cash increase in its ship…
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…
The most common misconception about AI in logistics is that it’s a magic button. If it were, the average operator’s day would look very different two years into the AI wave. But it doesn’t, and the portal-hopping, the chasing, the manual reconciling are mostly still there. That gap, between the noise about AI and the …
Air freight demand from traditionally parcel-centric customers is rising as the carrier pushes for more business in high-value segments like AI and data centers.
Two Nordic rail freight operators published mixed third-quarter results. Finnish Nurminen Logistics grew net sales by 10.4% to €26.3 million thanks to its Italian block trains. Still, the operator slipped into loss territory. Swedish operator Green Cargo posted an operating profit of 73 million Swedish crowns (€6.6 mi…
PKP Cargo’s rolling-stock maintenance subsidiary, PKP Cargotabor, has secured a legally binding deal to repay its debts, ending two years of restructuring and bringing some stability to a key part of the Polish freight operator’s business. Its parent company, however, remains locked in a dispute with creditors over it…
The Austrian rail freight operator Rail Cargo Group is considering scaling back single wagonload services between Sachsenburg in Carinthia and Sillian in East Tyrol. The service is too labour- and cost-intensive, the ÖBB subsidiary said. Local politicians warn that the move could put 50 to 60 extra trucks on the road …
Danish freight forwarder Scan Global Logistics (SGL) is set to undertake its largest takeover, agreeing to acquire its US counterpart, OIA Global, in a deal expected to propel SGL into the ranks of the world’s 20 largest freight forwarders. “The acquisition of OIA Global marks a significant milestone for Scan Global L…
For the second time this month, the president directed cabinet officials to negotiate over imports deemed a threat to U.S. commerce and security by a Section 232 probe.
John Fredriksen-backed SFL Corporation has agreed to acquire three newbuildings for around $365m, securing long-term employment that will add at least $333m to its charter backlog. The New York-listed shipowner said the latest investment covers two 8,800 teu containerships scheduled for delivery in 2027 and a 93,000 c…
CH Robinson grew trucking volume, profit per load and its divisions’ operating margins again, yet its shares fell 11% to a 52-week low as investors weighed a small trucking miss, a jump in claims costs, a 2027 insurance renewal still under negotiation and – most notably – a $5.8bn bet on RXO. Forwarding, once seen by …
Intra-Asia and Middle East short-haul trades are seen to be the most sought-after launch pad or entry point for aspiring container shipping entrepreneurs, as the industry becomes more competitive and challenging in an environment of ever-growing trade volatility. The ‘newest kid on the block’ is Jade Pacific Line (JPL…
South Korea’s Namsung Shipping has been linked to another containership order in China, with brokers reporting a deal for two firm 7,100 teu vessels at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (DSIC), plus options for another pair. Shipbroking sources said the CSSC-owned yard had secured the contract, with deliveries …