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CULines India India-Middle East Maersk Rates: the eternal tango

News / India-Gulf container rates plunge as capacity returns and cargo backlogs ease

Container shipping rates from India to the Persian Gulf have significantly softened from the peaks ...

Amazon Premium Legal Insight Teamsters

Premium / Amazon vs Teamsters – the legal war will shift to new fronts

Comment: Yet the immediate lesson is clear

Arise surcharges Global Shippers Association Surcharges Arise Tiaca's Executive Summit 2026

News / Now it's forwarders 'behaving badly' as well as carriers

Recent disruption across global supply chains has exposed uncomfortable questions about how freight forwarders and ...

Comment / New faces, new ideas, and no shortage of grins in Warsaw as TIACA's refresh takes hold

TIACA’s executive summit in Warsaw was fun; but better still, it was different – not ...

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Feeder operators Feeder ships Newbuildings Round-Up Newbuilds

News / Asian operators and shipowners spearhead more feeder ordering

Feeder ships continue to dominate newbuilding orders for containerships, driven by Asian players. During the Posidonia ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ceva Logistics brings in outsider as new CEO

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MSC says Iran attack on its box ship was 'completely unjustified'

Carriers back to 'price-gouging' on ocean trades – 'they can't help themselves'

EXCLUSIVE: Big shake-up under way at Ceva Logistics – heads roll

US tariffs will support ocean demand and keep rates high, says Wan Hai

Chinese shippers 'fogged down' by worsening port congestion

Maersk fined $1.9m for unfair D&D fees, with more carriers in the firing line

European Cargo: grounded by financial pressure and an unforgiving market

Tech / Air Canada Cargo's four-year journey to a new management system

Air Canada Cargo’s decision to replace its cargo management system may have been announced this ...

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On the merry-go-round Port of Antwerp-Bruges

People / Rob Smeets steps up as new port of Antwerp-Bruges CEO

The port of Antwerp-Bruges has appointed Rob Smeets (above) as its new chief executive, for ...

Hive Connect Summer Buzz Celebrates The Supply Chain

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Yusen Logistics partners with cargo.one to deploy its AI-powered operating system for global air freight sales and procurement

Supply Chain Optimisation is Broken. The arrival of SimPath aims to fix it

Freight Forwarders Are Running on Fragmented Systems, and the Industry Is Paying the Price, Says New Report by Softlink Global

New VesselBot Data Analysis Shows the True Emissions Gap Across Container Shipping

30+ Freight Forwarders Across 10+ Countries Choose a Single Digital Backbone in April.

Where Business Assets Wait Between Expansion Phases

87% of ecommerce businesses likely to change manufacturing locations

Fr. Meyer’s Sohn FMS acquires Front Shipping AS in Norway

Air Cargo Netherlands fully commits to new innovation strategy

Crane Worldwide Logistics deploys cargo.one to power its quoting and procurement globally with speed and accuracy

Fr. Meyer’s Sohn FMS Acquires Canadian Logistics Specialist CFT Corporation

Charter Link Logistics Group Opens First UK Office, Expanding Global LCL Network

Kale Logistics Solutions Launches New Cross-Border E-commerce Parcel Visibility Platform for Airlines

QCargo Launches: Instant Partner Verification for Global Freight

NeX eCommerce Launches NeX Academy to Bridge the Global Logistics Talent Gap

How Chinese holidays affect the supply chain lifecycle

James Kemball becomes Felixstowe’s largest off-dock container storage provider

JAS Appoints Francois Xavier (“FX”) Mollet as Executive Vice President, EMEA Region

JAS Appoints Manuele Mazzacurati as Chief Commercial Officer

News / US rejects EU objections to proposed forced labour tariffs on imports

US trade representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer has pushed back on EU criticism that proposed tariffs ...

Trump Tariff wars Trump's Tariff Trade Wars US Trade Representative (USTR)

Bollore Logistics Ceva Logistics CMA CGM Exclusive On the merry-go-round Vertical consolidation

Premium / EXCLUSIVE: Ceva Logistics brings in outsider as new CEO

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Rates: the eternal tango Transpacific Trade

Premium / Freight rate boomerang? 'I absolutely despise the carriers and their behaviour'

Comment: BANG! Opportunistic carriers are ‘gonna get some treatment’ when the dust settles

Bankruptcy Blues European Cargo

News / European Cargo: grounded by financial pressure and an unforgiving market

European Cargo’s collapse appears to have been driven by a combination of rising operating costs, ...

Asia-Europe Asia-Middle East/India Asia-West Africa Calculating Capacity Intra-Asia Transatlantic Transpacific

News / Asia and Africa soak up new shipping capacity as US trades tread water

More than half of the new containership capacity added to global markets in the past ...

COSCO Shipping Lines (COSCON) Drewry Intra-Asia Container Index Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI)

Tradelanes / Intra-Asia lanes gain capacity and rates soar as Middle East loses out

Intra-Asia rates are now more than 80% higher than before the US/Israel conflict against Iran, ...

Cosco The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Wan Hai Lines

News / Maersk fined $1.9m for unfair D&D fees, with more carriers in the firing line

It has been a busy fortnight for the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), having slapped ...

CHI Cargo Group Ground handling Hactl Swissport TIACA Tiaca's Executive Summit 2026

News / Airport community systems: can they put all the pieces together?

Ground handlers have warned that airport community systems risk adding complexity, rather than removing it. Airport ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association (BAFFA) Bangladesh Fruits Vegetables & Allied Products Exporter Association

News / Rising aircargo rates take a bite out of Bangladesh's perishable exports

Vegetables and seasonal fruit exports from Bangladesh are a facing severe downturn, after a near ...

IEEPA Tariffs US Trade Representative (USTR) USTR Section 301

News / US plans new tariffs for EU, UK and others for lack of action on forced labour

Australia, the EU, and the UK are not doing enough to end the use of ...

DP World MSC port of Yuzhny Takeover Talk Transinvestservice Ukraine

News / MSC buys controlling stake in Ukraine's Yuzhny box terminal

MSC is reported to have expanded its European port network this week, acquiring a majority ...

CH Robinson Keep on trucking M&A radar On the road again

Premium / 'Compelling' CH Robinson – for God's sake!

Comment: So many components = a lot of moving parts

IATA Latin America-North America Tradelanes

Tradelanes / LatAm-North America: Washington's badly timed own goals

Until last week, airlines moving between Latin America and North America were looking forward to ...

AP Moller - Maersk Customer-carrier relations Ferrero Vado Ligure

Premium / Mærsk-Ferrero supply chain partnership - hard questions remain unanswered

Comment: The key lesson here

CMA CGM India's Ministry of Shipping The Cabotage Question

News / India reviews controversial relaxed costal shipping cabotage rules

India’s policymakers are revisiting key fundamentals surrounding cabotage relaxations for foreign-flag vessels in coastal runs, ...