“Shippers continue to rely on Robinson’s global supply chain expertise (…) to ensure critical goods are moved as quickly and as inexpensively as possible.” – CH Robinson CEO Bob Biesterfeld, 26 January 2020.
There is a silver lining for CH …
Transport Intelligence writes:
The global transportation and logistics industry continues to be shaped by mergers and acquisition activity as companies seek to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions.
Whilst already growing at a rapid pace, the e-retailing logistics sector received …
CNBC reports:
U.S. stocks jumped on Thursday, roaring back from a sharp sell-off on Wall Street that saw the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffer their worst drop in three months.
The S&P 500 rose 1.9%,while the …
Channel ports chaos looks set to worsen next week with French strike action expected from on an ongoing stand-off between government and labour.
Logistics UK tweeted it had been made aware of a “threat of a French national strike” that …
Forwarders have had to “rewrite the book on air freight” with an ever-increasing number of long-term charters, changing processes for both forwarders and airlines.
“The second quarter led to a rethink of everything we were doing,” said Björn Eckbauer, global …
Containership owners have seen the value of their assets soar in the past few weeks, and they are said to be “raking in the money”.
This week, shipbroker Braemar ACM reported the sale of the 6,350 teu post-panamax APL Norway …
US-based JAS Worldwide has announced an all-share purchase agreement with France’s Geopost to acquire its Tigers freight forwarding subsidiary.
Rumours had been circulating among transport and logistics M&A folk for a number of months that the Atlanta-headquartered forwarder was on …
