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Premium / Your tracking system is now a weapon

Comment: How GPS spoofing became cargo theft’s killer app

AI courting judgment Flexport Freightmate.ai

Tech / Flexport-Freightmate case tests ownership of AI freight data and workflows

The legal battle between Flexport and freight-tech start-up Freightmate is increasingly becoming a test case ...

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News / Cargo contract conundrum: annual agreements, or go for shorter-term deals?

Despite another turbulent contract season, most major US shippers continue to favour annual ocean freight ...

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News / Europe’s auto sector faces ‘perfect storm’ as exports slump and imports surge

European automakers and their logistics services providers are navigating a period of upheaval and structural ...

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News / CMA CGM expands 6,000-teu box fleet with new orders and charters

Containership newbuilding orders this week have been dominated by 6,000 teu-plus ships, but interest in ...

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Gemini carriers set for market share grab on Asia-Mediterranean

MSC becomes first carrier to break 20% global market share barrier

The spotlight turns (again) on targeted job cuts at Expeditors

Near-record transpac spot rate surge a 'harbinger of instability', says Sea-Intelligence

Booked out until 2028: the AI boom is now air cargo’s growth engine

Rising freight costs reflect impact of Gulf crisis and early peak

Hormuz 'definitely shut', landbridges under pressure – TIR to the rescue?

News / Hormuz 'definitely shut', landbridges under pressure – TIR to the rescue?

With tentative hopes of a reopening of the Hormuz Strait dashed by the wave of ...

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News / US shippers warn revived China ship fees could ‘eliminate’ ag exports

US agriculture exporters are gearing up for another fight over Washington’s plans for penalties on ...

Alpega Group and Wakeo Formalise Strategic Alliance to Deliver Unified Transport Intelligence to Shippers Worldwide

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Hive Connect Summer Buzz Celebrates The Supply Chain

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.

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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

Premium / African demand + capacity = import explosion feeding container growth

Comment: Terminals and more terminals

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News / Forwarders face margin squeeze as growth cools and disruption persists

The global freight forwarding market is still growing, but the industry’s easy gains appear to ...

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News / DHL restores Gulf network, but airlines stay wary after latest strikes

The recovery of air cargo operations in the Gulf has been thrown into fresh uncertainty ...

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Premium / Norfolk Southern's COO quit mid-merger – nobody's asking the right question

Comment: Leadership bench optimized for integration, but if the deal falls apart…

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News / Importers race to beat the deadline for looming EU ecommerce fee

The EU’s planned introduction of a €3 fee for low-value ecommerce shipments from 1 July ...

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Tech / Humanoid robots in logistics – 'huge opportunities', but not in warehouses yet

Since May, travellers through Tokyo’s Haneda Airport may have seen a new type of worker ...

People / Geodis taps supply chain veteran Eric Gerbi to lead forwarding business

Geodis has drafted in long-serving executive Eric Gerbi to head its Global Freight Forwarding division, ...

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News / MSC becomes first carrier to break 20% global market share barrier

MSC has become the first container shipping line to command a global liner market share ...

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News / Airfreight must prepare for a new wave of pharma – 'current processes won't work'

The air cargo industry risks being unprepared for the next wave of time- and temperature-sensitive ...

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Premium / Expeditors finally used the 'L-word' – the best thing it has done in years

Comment: Making good progress

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News / HMM eyes hub-and spoke model as it expands feeder fleet

South Korean flagship carrier HMM wants to rebuild its intra-Asia shipping business, and is expanding ...

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Tech / Why Europe has the dream, but struggles to build freight-tech giants

Europe may have produced some of freight tech’s most ambitious start-ups, but building them into ...

Comment / Container shipping lines today – are they too big to fail?

Have container shipping lines simply become too big to fail? The news today that the 10 ...

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News / JNPA grants ground rent relief as truck shortages clog box flows

Indian shippers using container terminals at Nhava Port (JNPA) have won some respite from penalties ...