The US Airforwarders’ Association has expressed concern over plans by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to make forwarders file electronic air-cargo manifests in advance of flights.
There has been little take-up by forwarders of a pilot project in …

As the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) environmental work group gathers in London for its annual conference this week, delegates are being urged to consider new regulations to reduce ship speeds.
The IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee’s (MPC) working group on …

People in this industry tend to associate Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport with freighters and kerosene, rather than with flowers.
But the airport authority is planning to change this perception, getting ready to plant peonies for export.
As these flowers …

I happen to know one volatility-averse currency trader whose entire strategy has been rendered useless in recent years and whose main play now essentially amounts to executing trades when he thinks it most likely that Donald Trump is sleeping.
Faced …

Singapore’s Pacific International Lines (PIL), which is privately owned, has been off the radar since May when it emerged that sovereign wealth fund Temasek had helped it out providing some vital funding to get through to 2020, keeping default risk …

BLOOMBERG reports: “Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. added Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley to the sales force of its Hong Kong listing, and invited several Chinese banks to do the same, according to people with knowledge of …

Following a 19% jump last week, the North Europe component of the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) today recorded a modest 3.1% gain, to $729 per teu.
The 1 November FAK hikes by carriers, underpinned by radical blanking programmes, saw …