The “stratospheric” freight rates and shipping lines’ huge Q2 profits have been slammed by cargo owners, and a new report claims the carrier alliances are “suppressing” cargo.
According to a market review by MDS Transmodal and the Global Shippers Forum …

European shippers are facing more chaos on the tracks, with German train drivers’ union GDL launching its third strike in less than a month, amid an ongoing pay dispute with Deutsche Bahn (DB).
Sources told The Loadstar that up to …

To frustrated US shippers, going intermodal is proving a shaky alternative to the maxed-out trucking market.
Rail giant CSX provided the latest setback last Thursday with the announcement it would restrict the number of domestic containers it accepts from Chicago.…

Israeli ocean carrier Zim has exercised its option for a further five newbuild 7,000 teu LNG dual-fuelled vessels, on 12-year charters, from containership owner Seaspan Corp.
The option was part of Zim’s July agreement to charter 10 vessels of the …

Sometimes less is more.
This is especially true when partaking in a peculiar English delicacy called The Gentleman’s Relish, a spiced anchovy paste that is delicious on toast.

It has been in production for almost 200 years and only one …

At 8pm Seoul time, seafarers working for HMM began a picket protest from two of the Korean flagship carrier’s ships in Busan port, even as their union leaders continued negotiations with management.
On 22 August, some 450 of HMM’s 600 …

Forwarders are predicting ‘big chaos’ and very high rates in the coming air peak season, as a host of issues combine, leading to demand significantly outstripping supply out of Asia.
The problems in Shanghai, where an outbreak of Covid has …