The Loadstar

VV: Container trade accelerates as rates continue to climb

Here’s the latest from VesselsValue:
Time charter rates
The Container market has seen an unprecedented increase in rates since the end of 2020. Container 1 year TC rates have surged to extraordinarily new highs with 8,500 TEU values rising to …


CH Robinson quarterly dividend unchanged @ $0.51

CH Robinson says its board “today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 51 cents ($0.51) per share, payable on July 1, 2021, to shareholders of record on June 4, 2021”.

The group added it has distributed regular dividends for …






M&A radar: Expeditors, the ‘Agility’ nobody could get (yet)

If you sift through Expeditors’ mesmerising unaudited financials for Q1 21, two factors immediately catch your eye given the latest M&A events in logistics.
Neither indicates that M&A-hungry DSV Panalpina (DSV PAN) went for the wrong target, Agility GIL, although …