An interesting interview with Maersk, which notes the downward pressure on rates and says that they will be “fragile” next year. The article adds that Drewry believes that the freight growth rate will drop to less than 10% in 2018 …

Unless transpacific container carriers introduce some capacity discipline to the trade, such as that once imposed by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA), rate levels are likely to fall to unprecedented lows, according to new analysis from Alphaliner,
Since the beginning …

Air freight forwarders have accused some airlines of exploiting the spot market by cancelling scheduled flights and not providing sufficient capacity.
As rates have risen over past months, shippers have struggled to secure space, which they claim airlines have strictly …

As anyone still waiting for their cross-border e-commerce order has come to understand, there is a lot more that goes on behind the scenes in organising shipments from one country to another than meets the eye. International trade facilitation has …

The US National Transportation Safety Board yesterday released its report into the sinking of Tote’s El Faro containership in October 2015 en route from Jacksonville to San Juan in Puerto Rico. All 33 crewmembers and passengers drowned, and the report …

So now we know what is going to happen in the aviation sector once the UK departs the EU in 2019: it will, overnight, be considered a ‘third country’ and none of its airlines will be allowed to operate into, …

“Quite literally, this is now the perfect storm.”
Continued strong air freight demand and the resulting lack of capacity has been exacerbated by severe weather across Europe.
This morning, Air France-KLM Cargo sent a note to customers warning of “serious …