The air freight industry appears to be dividing into narrowbody e-commerce express operators and widebody freight players.
Some, like Atlas Air, known for its ability to diversify, currently have a foot in both camps; others are looking squarely at the …

More ships, bigger volumes and higher freight rates: what more could a container line possibly hope for?
A rocketing share price, perhaps.
That’s how things look at Germany’s biggest container line, Hapag-Lloyd, which in early August reported confident half-year results …

Alliance partners Maersk and MSC are to “temporarily suspend” their AE2/Swan Asia-North Europe loop from the end of the month until mid-November, removing up to 20,000 teu a week from the trade.
Weakening demand and plummeting freight rates have so …

Freeports (otherwise known as free-trade zones, or FTZs) are “not a magic wand for reviving struggling regions”, despite claims made by the UK’s international trade secretary Liz Truss.
Shortly following her appointment, Ms Truss claimed FTZs would transform towns and …

German 3PL Rhenus Logistics has continued on its acquisition trail, announcing today that it had bought UK-based PSL Group for an undisclosed sum.
PSL is a road freight specialist that also undertakes air and sea freight forwarding, and Rhenus said …

FedEx has raised eyebrows with its announcement that had signed an agreement to take over a Latin American forwarder.
Acquiring a player in Colombia’s perishables market seems a strange step in the wake of the integrator’s decision to wave good-bye …

The number of employees in truck transportation increased 2% from June to July, and is up more than 2% year on year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And as the number of employees grows, so do volumes.  …