DSV Panalpina today reported its first full quarterly results since the Danish forwarder acquired its Swiss rival last August, and reported a year-on-year fourth-quarter ebit surge of 33%.
The company posted an ebit of Dkr1.784bn (US$261.7m), which was around 2% …

If there was one thing to learn from The Delivery Conference in London this week, it is how very fast the e-commerce delivery industry changes – and the companies within it.
Compared with more traditional freight forwarding, where very little …

The moveable feast that is Chinese new year always makes it difficult to interpret the first statistics, in January and February,.
This year it is harder than ever, with the new year holiday extended, factories shut or under-staffed and capacity …

Haropa, the union of the French ports of Paris, Rouen and Le Havre, has announced commercial rebates and tariff discounts for container lines calling at Le Havre in the face of continued social unrest.
Strikes and disruptions at French ports, …

North American road freight operator Echo Global Logistics was unable to mitigate against a weak market in 2019 and suffered double-digit decreases in revenues and profits.
Yesterday it reported a full-year decline in revenues of 10.4% to $2.19bn, while ebitda …

The news this week that Flexport has laid off some 50 staff has, predictably, caused a flurry of comment about the digital forwarder and its future.
It should, however, be seen in context – it is hardly the only forwarder …

Remember the US’s 2009 swine flu pandemic, the one that infected 59m Americans, with 265,000 hospitalised and some 18,500 dead in just one year? Do you remember US borders being closed, whole cities in quarantine, travel bans imposed by foreign …