…and Singapore-based Pacific International Lines (PIL) – a target worth up to $4.5bn, based on my estimates – could well be the next ocean carrier moving the consolidation needle, as I recently argued.
While Israel’s ZIM Integrated Shipping flirts with …
Following two large rounds of buybacks, here’s the latest resulting number of total shares outstanding (down from over 140m in early Q418) for XPO: “As of the Record Date, there were 92,233,726 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, each …
It’s time for the liner industry to ditch the flawed fixed tender process where “someone always loses” and revisit index-linked contracts.
In a webinar yesterday to reveal results of a survey of 80 senior executives, consisting of forwarders, BCOs and …
Forwarders are deploying wildly different strategies in an air cargo market that so far this year has seen erratic and volatile rates.
Interestingly, given the soft start to the year, average air freight rates have been higher than last year, …
Japan’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) delegation is set to call for a mandatory shaft power reduction on all ships to help meet its commitment to cut shipping emissions by 40% by 2030.
A proposal, seen by The Loadstar but not …
US cargo airlines have again voiced their support for Gulf carriers in the face of a concerted effort by US legacy operators to disrupt the Open Skies agreement.
Lobbying as US Airlines for Open Skies (USAOS), Atlas Air, FedEx, Hawaiian …
Just-in-time (JIT) vessel arrivals could answer two of container shipping’s most pressing problems: surging fuel costs and poor schedule reliability.
Vessel tracking specialist MarineTraffic is working with the IMO’s Global Industry Alliance (GIA) to slash the time containerships spend idling …
