China United Lines (CU Lines) has entered the transpacific tradelane, becoming yet another new entrant on the Pacific with a service out of Shanghai.
CU Lines will launch the Trans-Pacific Express (TPX) service from Shanghai to Los Angeles on 18 …

Capacity problems have become a fact of life for shippers, but few had as little time to deal with a shortfall as those companies that were informed by FedEx Freight on Friday, 11 June that the LTL firm would stop …

The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has launched a fresh round of industrial action, this time against Maersk-owned tugboat operator Svitzer.
The union conducted three work stoppages in Melbourne and Westernpoint on Friday, totalling 12 hours.
In a notice to …

The UK government’s solution to the driver shortage crisis – last week it relaxed driving hours rules by one hour per day – was widely criticised by the road transport and logistics sector. And rightly so, as it’s moronic – …

An interesting geopolitical story in CargoForwarder. Volga-Dnepr Group has apparently been avoiding Belarusian airspace, as per the EU sanctions on the country. That hasn’t gone down well with some politicians in Russia, who say that Volga-Dnepr and AirBridgeCargo should not …

“Today we (…) IPO’d a SPAC called X Acquisition Corp [full name undisclosed here for privacy purposes]. If you have any interesting M&A ideas in emerging markets, please let me know.”
That message hit my inbox from a rather tiny, …

Peer Gjoew Rasmussen (pictured above) has become managing director of Kuehne + Nagel Singapore & Malaysia
Based in Singapore, he will be responsible for overseeing the company’s operations in Singapore and Malaysia.
Mr Gjoew Rasmussen, who has been at K+N …