Following the high-profile departure of Maersk chief operating officer Soren Toft to MSC, the Maersk has promoted Vincent Clerc (pictured above) as its new chief executive of Ocean and Logistics.
And Damco veteran Henriette Hallberg Thygesen has joined Maersk’s executive …

It’s been a great run for Switzerland’s Kuehne + Nagel (K+N), thanks to strong financial and stock market performances lately.
However, as it prepares to fight DSV Panalpina in what promises to be a stellar 2020 head-to-head challenge for these …

Unifeeder is preparing to charge its customers a fee for lashing and unlashing containers on its vessels from 1 January.
In compliance with the new “Dockers Clause”, which comes into force on the same date, Unifeeder and its peers operating …

Shippers of lithium batteries will face a new hurdle from 1 January, thanks to new transport regulations.
The United Nations’ Committee of Experts, which creates the framework for dangerous goods regulations,  has introduced a requirement which obliges manufacturers, and distributors …

There has been some movement on the China-US trade agreement, although there are still many questions, according to CNBC. This week’s planned tariff implementations have been delayed, and a new ‘phase-one’ deal will depend on the US rolling back previous …

In what must surely be one of the last deals of 2019, Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC has acquired 28 distribution facilities from Apollo Global Management.
The Maximus portfolio, costing some €950m, covers more than a million sq metres of …

Chief commercial officer Steven Harvey is the latest high-profile executive to leave the Cargologic management group, and will take up a new role as vice president cargo for East Midlands Airport (EMA) in the new year.
Struggles at the group, …