Bloomberg‘s Chris Hughes writes: “Apollo Global Management’s reputation for M&A savvy is suddenly under threat. The U.S. buyout firm this week encountered a potential challenge to its agreed $4.4 billion deal for U.K. packaging company RPC Group Plc. Tactics that …

The Voice Of Panalpina: Open Letter to the Ernst Göhner Foundation
“There hasn’t been a day since January 16, 2019 without press articles were published about DSV’s offer to acquire Panalpina. The obvious consequence of such an acquisition would be …

MARKETWATCH reports: “Oil futures ended higher Friday, feeding a gain for the week as U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil firm raised the risk of tighter crude supplies and a recent survey showed a considerable monthly decline in OPEC production. …

PRESS RELEASE 
31 Jan 2019
Global logistics solutions group, WiseTech Global, today announced the acquisition of Systema AS, a leading customs management solutions provider in Norway.

Headquartered in Oslo, Systema offers customs and logistics management solutions from its core software …

UK transport secretary Chris Grayling may have broken the law by awarding contracts for ro-ro services in the event of a no-deal Brexit, by not having first put them up for public tender.
The Transport Select Committee is investigating allegations …

The last Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) before the Chinese New Year holiday has recorded a modest softening of spot rates on the transpacific, while carriers were able to hold rates steady between Asia and Europe.
Spot rates between Asia …

While talk of Amazon’s growing logistics capabilities has centred on the threat to its principal logistics service providers, UPS and FedEx, a new report from Armstrong & Armstrong suggests it is the 3PL sector that should be most concerned by …