With the small, under the-radar sale of its container haulage and vehicle repairs businesses, LSE-listed Wincanton (£360m market cap) recently reduced its business lines to contract logistics (CL) focused on only four (operating) verticals.
In doing so, it has inadvertently …
US forwarder CH Robinson had a mixed bag of results in 2020, with Q4 and full-year financials out last week.
The core North American Surface Transportation unit limped to little more than a flat year.
But in Forwarding, Robinson went …
Global container service scheduled reliability has declined to its lowest levels since records began, according to new data from SeaIntelligence Consulting.
The analyst’s latest schedule reliability data for December shows just 44.6% of vessels arriving on time, “which means that …
More ships are being held at departure ports in Asia for a week or more, as carriers wrestle with the recovery of their shattered schedules.
They have drawn a blank in their attempts to secure additional capacity to mitigate the …
Qatar Airways chief cargo officer Guillaume Halleux talks to The Loadstar about the first days of the pandemic, profiteering and “appalling” unethical behaviour in the market
“The biggest challenge was sleep deprivation.”
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world last …
Federal Maritime Commissioners Carl Bentzel (pictured above) and Daniel Maffei have written to US president Joe Biden urging his new administration to classify the country’s dockers and maritime workforce as essential workers, and expedite a vaccination programme across the workforce.…
As competition for Mediterranean container traffic heats up, CMA CGM is set to operate a new container terminal at Egypt’s port of Alexandria.
The French shipping group will manage the multipurpose, 1.5m teu capacity facility, Pier 55, with operations commencing …
