Container spot rates from Asia to the US, including space guarantees and equipment priority fees, have topped $4,000 per 40ft to the US west coast and $5,000 to the east coast.
Despite “guidance” by the Chinese Ministry of Transport and …

UK forwarders and shippers who route cargo through the port of Felixstowe will be unable to return empty containers to the port until at least 23 September.
The UK’s largest container port continues to grapple with crippling congestion.
Maersk told …

This week has been a tale of two companies, both under the cosh, facing severe congestion, unhappy customers, unreleased cargo and carrier switches.
But Menzies Aviation and Felixtowe port operator Hutchison have reacted in entirely different ways.
The Loadstar broke …

Remember just two weeks ago, when eight UK logistics organisations, concerned over what will happen in January when the UK goes it alone, appealed to Brexit political boss Michael Gove for an urgent meeting?
Well, they’ve had it. And it …

Container terminal industry veteran Iain Rawlinson (pictured above) has been appointed chief commercial officer at APM Terminals Poti.
The move brought him back to the Maersk group after more than six years with UAE-headquartered Gulftainer, where he was global commercial …

GB Railfreight has appointed David Golding as its new asset director.
The rail freight provider has gone outside the rail industry with this appointment – Mr Golding is a former British Army engineering officer who served 23 years before, in …

Uber Freight’s European foray came to an end this week after its US parent company came to an agreement to sell it to German rival sennder – a company whose name is causing havoc with the autocorrect function of this …