The fallout from last year’s air freight capacity crunch is still playing out, with shippers and forwarders on the hunt for charter flights and alternative shipping strategies.
According to ECS Group chief executive Adrien Thominet, shippers are putting “huge pressure” …

Shipper hopes that carriers will not impose fuel surcharges have been shot down as Maersk and CMA CGM became the latest to implement a bunker surcharge.
Drewry’s Simon Heaney, senior manager supply chain research, told The Loadstar the emergency fuel …

Carriers on the key Asia-Europe trades saw container shipping spot freight rates lift this week in advance of introducing new FAK levels on 1 June next week.
According to this morning’s Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI), spot rates between Shanghai …

“The future is here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
As the supply chain ponders the possible uses of blockchain in logistics, Paul Brody, global blockchain leader for EY, dismissed suggestions that it is still “early days” for the technology.…

Blockchain is not a “silver bullet” that will rid logistics of all that ails it, but it is more than just a buzzword and can offer tangible benefits to supply chains.
Transport Intelligence’s (Ti) latest report, Why is Blockchain a …

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors of the best-selling book, Freakonomics, would have smiled at the recent Trends publication letter of WorldACD, an air cargo data provider.
Why? Because part of its analysis is right up their alley.
In the …

The rise in e-commerce volumes is posing operational challenges for air cargo carriers.
At the Air Cargo China event in Shanghai last week, airline executives told The Loadstar the benefits from increased e-commerce shipments had not come without added risks.…