Proactive capacity management by ocean carriers is continuing to underpin freight rates on the major east-west tradelanes.
The European components of today’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) were in positive territory, with spot rates for North Europe up by 2% …

Transatlantic shippers are set to be hit by another wave of blank sailings this month after 2M partners Maersk and MSC announced that the suspension of the TA4/NEUTAL4 would be extended.
The service, which deploys five vessels with an average …

US parcel shippers are getting hit with more price hikes, this time on the domestic front.
After a round of additional levies on international parcel shipments in April, FedEx and UPS are now implementing domestic surcharges at short notice.
The …

Rail services between China and Europe are growing fast, with the reliability, speed and cost looking increasingly attractive in the face of blanked container shipping services and very high air freight rates.
“The freight trains on the new Silk Road …

“God, I’m bored of this.”
“What are you writing?” says a colleague. “That PR on PayCargo and IBS?”
“No. Another one on the future of air cargo and how you make it work.”
“Ha! You’ve been writing that one for …

The post Covid-19 world could be a very uncomfortable place for a raft of transport and logistics players, as anecdotal and empiric evidence of a shifting pattern towards near-shoring is emerging.
If you trust the bears, headwinds of all sorts …

Amazon is to lease another 12 converted 767-300s from ATSG, bringing its fleet to 82 aircraft.
The first was delivered last month, with the remainder to start operations next year.
The e-commerce giant added that it would open a new …