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Russian Railways wants full control of Far East railway

Russian Railways has expressed its desire to assume complete authority over the railway network in the Far East region. The Russian company aims to optimis...
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Posted on October 8, 2024

Transport Sector in China Grows

China has experienced remarkable growth and development in its transport sector in recent years. The country has heavily invested in expanding and upgr...
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Posted on October 7, 2024

Exports of Wood-Based Products from Brazil

In August, Brazilian exports of wood-based products experienced a decline, mainly attributed to challenges in the shipping industry. Exporters faced fi...
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Posted on October 4, 2024

Global airfreight rates firm up

According to recent reports global airfreight rates are showing signs of stabilisation. Rates out of China, in particular, have been on the rise, altho...
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Posted on October 3, 2024

Container Shipping Prospects

Shippers in the container industry are currently grappling with a multitude of supply chain disruptions. As they strive to maintain control over inventory ...
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Posted on September 30, 2024

Intra-Asia rates down

The newly introduced Intra-Asia Container Index (IACI) has shown a decrease in spot container freight rates across 18 significant Intra-Asia routes, partic...
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Posted on September 18, 2024

Damage of floods to rail freight is immense

The recent floods have wreaked havoc on rail freight infrastructure and operations, resulting in immense damage and disruption. The impact on supply chains...
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Posted on September 17, 2024

Container ship malfunction

A container ship arriving in Port Tampa Bay, on September 5, became the latest vessel reported to have an engine malfunction. The Harbour pilot credited qu...
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Posted on September 7, 2024

Freight Safety award

Freight Insurer TT Club has announced the launched its Innovation in Safety Award for this year. The challenge to everyone in the global freight industr...
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Posted on September 4, 2024

EES effect on freight

New research by business group Logistics UK suggests there may be increased food prices and the potential for shortages in shops as a result of delays caus...
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Posted on September 3, 2024

Railfreight in Canada

Logistics providers are warning the historic shutdown of Canada’s two largest railroads would have a drastic effect on the cross-border supply chain with...
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Posted on August 22, 2024

Nigeria Freight forwarders

Freight forwarders in NIgeria under the umbrella of the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) have complained about the r...
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Posted on August 21, 2024

New air-freight China to UK

A new air-freight route has started between Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Bournemouth in England. The carg...
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Posted on August 20, 2024

Shipping Freight rates

Shippers should expect continued volatility in container shipping freight markets throughout 2025. Even the re-start of operations through the Suez Canal ...
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Posted on August 15, 2024

Continued pandemic effect on shipping

The global shipping industry changes all the time, and the COVID-19 pandemic began a marked shift in how container shipping operates. Disruption caused by ...
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Posted on August 13, 2024

New rail freight cranes

Two new Rail-Mounted Gantry (RMG) cranes for the London Gateway rail terminal have arrived. They will increase rail capacity at the logistics hub by 50 pe...
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Posted on August 8, 2024

Volume growth a positive sign for heavy-haul freight companies

Mining activity is on the rise, and with it, project cargo volumes seem to be increasing. Volumes of contract freight shipments are expected to grow. Co...
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Posted on August 1, 2024

Supply chain providers seek new approach to freight legislation

Unions, maritime shipping interests and other supply chain businesses have formed a new trade group in the USA to push for more domestic infrastructure inv...
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Posted on July 30, 2024

BIFA advice on maritime container safety

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) delivered some key advice in its latest webinar on the subject of safety in the container shipping en...
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Posted on July 26, 2024

China’s Shipping Container Markets

Recent volume increase and subsequent container price increases, was primarily driven by bringing forward orders, raising questions about the strength of u...
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Posted on July 24, 2024

Global ocean freight demand to grow

Worldwide ocean freight demand and supply are projected to grow by 2.5 per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively this year, according to an Ocean Freight Ship...
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Posted on July 16, 2024

Demand for Ocean Container Shipping hits all-time high

Global demand for ocean freight container shipping reached a new record in May, as freight rates and port congestion increased. A commentator said that ...
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Posted on July 15, 2024

Vietnamese shipping containers

Container leasing companies everywhere are buying international-standard containers produced in Vietnam, because of the global container shortage driving u...
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Posted on July 9, 2024

Air freight rates Singapore

Congestion at ports everywhere including Singapore, has prompted some export companies to switch from sea to air freight to get their goods to eager custom...
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Posted on July 8, 2024

Rise of Same-Day Shipping Increases Global Air Freight Emissions

Greenhouse gas emissions from air freight operators have increased by 25% since 2019, as companies have increased their capacity to attain for faster deliv...
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Posted on July 4, 2024

Climbing freight rates

Three of the world’s largest ocean carriers have improved their forecasts for the rest of the year, expecting a stronger financial performance than previ...
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Posted on July 1, 2024

China Europe Freight Train

The China-Europe freight takes about 12 days to reach Russia and about 16 days to reach Germany from Shenyang. This long-haul cargo train service has be...
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Posted on June 28, 2024

Long-haul cargo train becomes popular among exporters

Drivers of forklift trucks have recently busy loading boxes containing 400 televisions into a rail container at the assembly center of China-Europe freight...
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Posted on June 27, 2024

Vietnam Sea freight costs

The Vietnam Maritime Administration (Vinamarine) is aksing for measures to minimise impacts of skyrocketing sea freight costs on imports and exports. Vi...
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Posted on June 25, 2024

Dangerous cargo list highlights need for proper declaration

Goods as varied and seemingly innocuous as cotton, fishmeal, grain, and wood pellets appear on a list of 15 dangerous cargo types commonly carried in shipp...
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Posted on June 18, 2024

Spot freight rates on Asia-Europe

A leading container consultancy has warned shippers of the prospect of spot rates surpassing $20,000 per feu on the Asia-Europe tradelane. Rates have l...
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Posted on June 10, 2024

Air cargo market expects growth

The global air freight market is on a pathway to double-digit growth in volumes in 2024 after a +12% year-on-year jump in demand in May, according to the l...
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Posted on June 6, 2024

Rising freight rates may affect Thai exports

A group of shippers in Thailand is concerned rising freight rates coul impact exports in the second half of the year. The group plans to propose to the ...
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Posted on June 5, 2024

Plans ‘Green Shipping Corridor’ Between UK and Ireland

The UK’s second-largest port owner, and renewable energy and maritime specialists, NatPower Marine, have announced their plans to establish the first “...
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Posted on May 28, 2024

New logistics and freight yard

A new logistics and freight yard adjoining Southampton Container Terminal is expected to give a significant extra competitive edge to cargo and haulage ope...
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Posted on May 20, 2024

Two RO/RO freight ferries increase capacities

Two RO/RO freight ferries operated by Stena Line of Sweden are each to undergo conversions that will increase their capacities by 30%, not through a midbod...
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Posted on May 16, 2024

Vietnam’s pepper exports up 7 pct

Vietnam's pepper exports reached 70,248 tons, in the first four months of this year, down 21.8 percent in volume, but up 7 percent in value compared to the...
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Posted on April 25, 2024

Freight shipping carbon emissions

Conflict in the Red Sea has caused a much higher increase in carbon emissions in ocean freight container shipping, according to recent data released by a N...
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Posted on April 22, 2024

Freight transport 2022 in EU

Road freight transport represented 24.9% of all freight transport performance in 2022 in the EU; it increased by 0.4 percentage points (pp) when compared t...
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Posted on April 17, 2024

China-Europe rail freight

Freight forwarders are using rail services between China and Europe, as a freight transportation alternative because of disruption to international shippin...
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Posted on April 13, 2024

Container Shipping Rates Fall Despite Baltimore Shutdown

Many shipping analysts have been predicting that the shutdown of the Port of Baltimore would not significantly affect container rates to the U.S. East Coas...
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Posted on April 11, 2024

Sea freight rates falling but shipping lines have concerns

Earlier in the year, disruption to international sea freight caused by the Red Sea crisis pushed container rates to their highest levels in almost a year a...
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Posted on March 28, 2024

China-Europe freight train service

A new freight train route which links Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, with Tilburg in the Netherlands, has been initiated. ...
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Posted on March 15, 2024

Pallet network “simplifies the process of shipping freight to European destinations”

A UK base pallet network has announced the launch of its new streamlined service designed to significantly strengthen distribution of exports to Europe. ...
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Posted on March 6, 2024

French shipping line’s revenue declines

A French shipping Group has announced a significant decline in net income, falling by 85% to $3.64 billion for the fiscal year 2023 compared to $24.88 bill...
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Posted on February 19, 2024

British International Freight Association welcomes decision on container shipping rules

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will not recommend to the Secretary that the current Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) should ...
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Posted on February 15, 2024

China-Russia rail freight: demand increasing

Freight forwarders are reporting high demand for goods to be sent via rail freight from China through Russia to Europe mainly because of the disruption cau...
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Posted on February 1, 2024

Air freight rates from China, HK to US, Europe

Air freight rates out of China and Hong Kong to the United States and Europe have returned to levels last seen in September. This is mainly due to surgi...
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Posted on January 16, 2024

New London to Netherlands freight ferry service

A new freight ferry service will begin in March, connecting the ports of London (Tilbury 2) and Rotterdam (Europoort). According to information on the com...
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Posted on January 10, 2024

Red Sea crisis pushes freight rates

A major world shipping company has paused all transits through the region ‘for the foreseeable future’ and ocean freight shipping rates continue to inc...
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Posted on January 8, 2024

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