Large fashion brands are turning their backs on Asia.
Italian fashion firm Benetton has moved more than 10% of its output from Bangladesh, Vietnam, China and India to European production locations this year, and more will follow.
By the end …

Air freight is straining under the twin pressures of high demand and disruption from lower capacity and labour shortages, as well as various Covid restrictions.
Air cargo executives have cited problems across major hubs in Europe, including Amsterdam, London, Brussels, …

In the aftermath of the fire and cargo loss from the Zim Kingston, Canadian authorities are expected to use a barge crane to remove debris from damaged container cells, according to local sources.
The ship itself is said to be …

Bangladeshi feeder operator HR Lines has confirmed to The Loadstar it is negotiating with a Chinese shipbuilder to order a number of containerships.
In October, several shipbroking reports mentioned that a Bangladeshi customer had ordered four 2,900 teu ships from …

UK ports fear being left at a competitive disadvantage following the introduction of full border checks for goods entering the UK from the EU next year.
The reason is that government has yet to reveal its charges for customers using …

UK freight management group and 3PL Xpediator has appointed Penny Gradwell (pictured) as director of the fashion and lifestyle vertical of its Delamode freight forwarding division.
She joins from Nippon Express, where she held a range of senior management positions …

There are few companies that are better defined by their interim financial performance than Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL in the third quarter (Q3 21) of this year.
The necessary – perhaps redundant? – premise being that while pre-Covid the integrated …