Freight forwarders News

Freight Organisation welcomes investment

The British International Freight Association, which represents freight forwarders in the UK, has welcomed the Chancellor's plans to fund road widening sch...
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Posted on January 24, 2012

Freight Project Mars

Last week a project freight forwarder was responsible for shipping to Cape Canaveral major parts needed for a rover mission to Mars. NASA' s most ambiti...
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Posted on December 16, 2011

Freight Service Awards Ceremony

The 23rd awards ceremony organised by the British International Freight Association will be held on Thursday 19 January in London. Industry members have be...
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Posted on December 8, 2011

International Freight Forwarders day

This annual international forum for professionals in the transport, freight forwarding an logistics industry will be held in Odessa.  The day commemorates...
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Posted on December 7, 2011

Japanese Freight Forwarders fined

The US department of Justice has succeeded in its prosecution of six Japanese freight forwarders, all of whom pleaded guilty to price fixing.  This means ...
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Posted on November 23, 2011

Freight Organisation supports Fair Fuel

The British International Freight Association, which repesents most freight forwarders in the UK, is putting its support behind the Fair Fuel campaign, as ...
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Posted on November 8, 2011

Freight Conference in Hamburg

Intermodal Europe, featuring a free to attend conference and exhibition, is returning to Hamburg on 29 November – 2 December 2011.  It is expected to a...
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Posted on November 2, 2011

Freight Transport Congress Bremen

Starting tomorrow, the Breakbulk Africa Transport Congress covers a variety of topics. How China is investing in Africa, infrastructure and port developmen...
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Posted on November 1, 2011

Project Forwarding course for Freight Forwarders

The Breakbulk Americas freight event in New Orleans this month offered a two day training course for Project Cargo Management.  The course which is accred...
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Posted on October 28, 2011

International Freight Conference in Pakistan

An International Conference and Exhibition on Logistics and Supply Chain Management is planned for 1 November at Hotel Lahore.  It is being jointly organi...
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Posted on October 24, 2011

Freight Forwarders admit price-fixing

The USA Government, which is carrying out a major investigation into anti-trust trading in the freight forwarding industry, said last week that six Japanes...
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Posted on October 5, 2011

Autumn Freight Prospects

Danske Bank regularly publishes a Freight Forwarding Index, which reports the results of a survey of freight forwarders.  Volumes of freight seems to be c...
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Posted on September 18, 2011

Logistics Event

Totally Logistics North will take place at Doncaster Racecourse on 28 and 29 September.  As well as an exhibition hall, featuring stands with handling com...
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Posted on September 9, 2011

Container shipping rates tumble

Having announced last week that they would impose a freight increase on the Asia Europe route in August, shipping lines have revealed that spot rates have ...
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Posted on July 29, 2011

Shipping lines reduce services

Low utilisation rates have forced shipping lines to reduce capacity on the Asia to Europe routes in an effort to cut costs.  Freight rates have been stead...
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Posted on June 22, 2011

Shipping lines ignore small importers

A shipping industry analyst recently carried out an experiment, to find out how interested shipping lines are in providing a service to small importers.  ...
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Posted on June 14, 2011
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