The German container gateway of Hamburg won’t see a drop in throughput after the shipping alliance network reshuffles scheduled for 1 April, it was claimed today.
While the recently published east-west schedule for the Ocean Alliance was largely unchanged, a …

Container volumes at Thailand’s Laem Chabang port remained flat last year, despite a big uptick in US-bound cargo.
According to Alphaliner, Thailand recorded a 17.8% increase in export volumes to the US in 2019, reaching 620,000 teu. This increase was …

CH Robinson has begun to spend its $1bn tech investment, with the launch of an innovation incubator, CH Robinson Labs.
With teams in Minneapolis, Chicago, Silicon Valley and Warsaw, Poland, it will create, test and scale “the next big ideas …

automotiveIT writes:

As OEMs and automotive parts suppliers see their margins decline, cost pressures are going to increase on logistics operations and service providers further down the supply chain

As the automotive industry continues to see vehicle volumes contract and …

SEEKING ALPHA writes:
– Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP) plans to run its railroad with nearly 3K fewer workers this year, CEO Lance Fritz tells WSJ, as it pushes ahead with a new operating plan that runs fewer, longer trains.
– The …

“The freight forwarding sector had a tough end to 2019 after US seaborne imports fell by 7.1% year over year in Q4. Among the majors, only DB Schenker and DP-DHL saw growth with expansions of 8.7% and 1.8%, respectively, due …

Uwe Brinks, CEO of DHL Freight, writes:
What will the year 2020 bring for logistics? What challenges are we facing? Logistics is a good reflection of our society and economy.
What we are concerned about socially and/or economically usually also …