Maersk has seen a 30% uptick in rail freight volumes in India during the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
But some local forwarders aren’t convinced rail services can challenge road’s predominance.
India’s lockdown began 72-days ago, triggering a raft of supply chain …

Texas-based Transplace, a 3PL provider, has acquired parcel transport optmisation platform ScanData for an undisclosed sum from Craftsman Capital Partners.
Transplace has more than 1,000 clients and about $9bn under freight management and the takeover of ScanData, which handles some …

One-third of HMM’s container fleet is currently idled, by far the highest percentage of inactive ships of any of its liner peers, according to Alphaliner.
And the South Korean carrier is scheduled receive some 400,000 teu of newbuild tonnage over …

Trust is the key to ensuring a joined-up air cargo industry; an integrated supply chain that offers profitability to all, according to Tiaca chief Steven Polmans.
Recent articles by SASI have shown that airlines, airports and handlers, through technology and …

FedEx Express has appointed Karen Reddington (pictured above) as regional president of FedEx Express Europe and chief executive of TNT.
She succeeds Bert Nappier, who has served since June 2018 and will now assume the role of executive vice president, …

With 6.3m employees on furlough and 2m having joined the ranks of the unemployed, it may seem perverse to suggest that a major issue for the recovery will be recruitment and retention of staff.
Having the right level of staffing, …

In Jewish humour there’s an old joke that takes various forms but basically runs along the following lines…
Non-Jew: ‘Rabbi, I’d like to convert to Judaism.’
Rabbi: ‘Why? Don’t you have enough problems already?’
The joke sprang to mind when …