The 2M partners Maersk and MSC have signed an agreement with Israel’s Zim Lines to combine their Asia-US east coast container shipping services.
The seven Asia-US east coast loops deployed by the carriers – five from the 2M and two …

Kuehne + Nagel has continued its strong start to 2018, announcing significant increases in revenue and volumes in its first-half figures.
Revenue and profit growth both hit double-digits, year on year, with net turnover for the six months to June …

As the transpacific trade war officially gets under way, US retailers are rushing to fill inventories before additional tariffs are put on Chinese goods.
However, longer term, escalating tariffs could mean increased sourcing in South and South-east Asia.
According to …

It’s a week of big announcements for Volga-Dnepr Group (VDG). Today’s instalment is that it plans, with sister carrier CargoLogicAir (CLA), to establish a new regional hub at Liege in Belgium.
Liege helped out Volga-Dnepr subsidiary AirBridgeCargo (ABC) in October …

Unmanned aircraft could represent “an opportunity to get into Africa’s vast and untapped air cargo markets”.
Speaking at the Farnborough Airshow, founder and chief executive of Astral Aviation Sanjeev Gadhia said the untapped Kenya market alone was valued by the …

Container shipping lines on the transpacific trade this week continued to announce capacity cuts in response to the US-China trade war.
Following last week’s news that both the 2M and The Alliance groupings would suspend a service each this summer, …

While many investors and financial analysts have their eyes on Kuehne Nagel’s (K+N) interim results, due to be published tomorrow, I’m still digesting the remarks of Klaus-Michael Kuehne, K+N’s honorary chairman and majority shareholder, following the recent rumours that CMA …