US west coast ports are looking to cultivate partnerships with inland facilities, which they hope will relieve their congested docks.
The port of Long Beach has signed a four-year partnership agreement with the Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA).
This involves …

Hauliers are calling for a major shake-up of the way the shipping sector operates, claiming they are being “held hostage” by carriers and ports.
Fearing that access to ports could be revoked if they spoke openly, some haulage companies told …

DP World today announced it has agreed to acquire US-headquartered contract logistics operator syncreon for $1.2bn.
The deal, which is subject to customary completion conditions and is expected to close before the year-end, will see the Dubai-headquartered terminal operator continue …

“They are bankers with a forwarding arm.”
Timely
Those remarks were made in our marketplace with regard to a Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) rival yesterday (guess who?), but is also an apt description of the Swiss forwarder in the wake …

It almost passed unnoticed in our circles, but The Korea Development Bank has (quietly) doubled its stake in the country’s leading container line, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM).
That came after the bank had outlined plans to convert SKW300bn ($263.7m) of …

Partners Group joins majority shareholder Kuehne+Nagel on the Apex Board
Apex stands to benefit from the rise of cross-border e-commerce, a key transformative trend

Kuehne+Nagel has agreed to sell to Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, a 24.9% …

July 1: GEODIS continues to develop its logistics activities in Morocco and today inaugurated a new warehouse located north of Casablanca.  This will serve one of the leaders in household appliances and telephony.
With a well-established presence in Casablanca, GEODIS …