By Gavin van Marle 24/06/2026 AP Moller-Maersk has promoted Scott Elliott (above) to the position of regional president for Asia Pacific, after serving in the role on an interim basis …
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By Alex Lennane 24/06/2026 Significant growth in Vietnam’s tech sector is seeing logistics operators boost capacity in the country to take advantage of potentially high yields. Ceva Logistics has launched …
By The Loadstar team 24/06/2026 US logistics property giant Prologis has launched a £12.6bn takeover bid for Segro of a near-25% premium on the UK warehouse and industrial property specialist’s …
By Gavin van Marle 24/06/2026 Gemini Cooperation partners Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd hit their 90% on-time schedule reliability target across all trades in April/May. Across the main deepsea trades, the carrier …
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By Alexander Whiteman 24/06/2026 Continuing yesterday’s story on the implications for returns processes post-de minimis, today’s post considers how retailers and their supply chain partners can ensure they are best …
By Bangladesh correspondent 24/06/2026 Five months after taking over Bangladesh’s underused Pangaon Inland Container Terminal, MSC’s Medlog has attracted a growing roster of exporters and importers. It did it by …
By Ian Putzger Americas correspondent 24/06/2026 The going is about to get tougher for those importing goods into the US and their customs brokers as Washington prepares to tighten regulations …
By Alison Koo 24/06/2026 Taiwanese forwarder and ship manager TVL Marine is re-entering container shipping after a seven-year absence, launching a Hong Kong-Taiwan shuttle service this month. The company owns …
By Alessandro Pasetti 24/06/2026 Just less than a month away from the release of Q2 26 numbers on 22 July, and with a challenging second quarter for most forwarders about …
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By Gavin van Marle 23/06/2026 A few days into peace talks being held in Switzerland between the US and Iran, there are tentative signs that shipping is gradually moving again …
By Alex Lennane 23/06/2026 Global air cargo markets are showing increasing signs of stability, with Gulf carriers rapidly rebuilding networks disrupted by the US-Iran conflict and capacity returning across key …
By Alessandro Pasetti 23/06/2026 Container shipping executives hate to talk about rivalry – what rivalry? – in a sector where the Top Four control nearly 60% of market share. No …
By Alexander Whiteman 23/06/2026 EU customs changes on 1 July present a “real margin issue” when it comes to returns and tariff refunds for those selling into the bloc. There …
By Alison Koo 23/06/2026 Congestion in European and Asian ports has kept 3.4m teu of box ship capacity queued, supporting long-haul freight rates as liner operators prepare to hike rates …
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By Gavin van Marle 22/06/2026 French pure-play contract logistics operator (PPCLO) FM Logistic is set to enter the German market after it today announced that it agreed to acquire “a …
By Alex Lennane 22/06/2026 A growing gap between executive enthusiasm and frontline confidence is emerging as one of the biggest obstacles to AI adoption across the supply chain industry, according …
By Alexander Whiteman 22/06/2026 Looming EU de minimis changes will “reset” the business landscape, but forwarders should cool their fears of any immediate impact, suggestions are that the changes will …
By Gavin van Marle 22/06/2026 One defining feature of the history of containerisation has been the way it has led to the death of many inner-city working ports. The latest …
By Ruben Huber 22/06/2026 At time of writing, negotiations between US and Iran, mediated by Qatar and Pakistan continue in Switzerland. Rewind for a moment. On Thursday 18 June, the …
By Angelo Mathais India correspondent 22/06/2026 Indian air cargo stakeholders faced with a capacity crunch out of Delhi Airport now have an alternative gateway in the region, as trade volumes …
By Ian Putzger Americas correspondent 22/06/2026 The combination of tight ocean capacity and an early peak season is causing transpacific shippers to consider shifting traffic to air cargo, but space …
By Alessandro Pasetti 22/06/2026 ’The ladder is burning’, wrote our Adam Clermont a week ago. Bad timing, if you are looking for a job? Yes. But. Happy Mondays The flip …
By Alison Koo 22/06/2026 Yang Ming said on Friday that slots on its ships on the transpacific and Asia-North Europe lanes were fully booked into July and expects the peak …
If the past few years have taught the logistics industry anything, it’s that certainty is often in short supply. Air cargo businesses are making commercial decisions against a backdrop of …
By Charlotte Goldstone 21/06/2026 This week on News in Brief, host Charlotte Goldstone is joined by The Loadstar’s managing editor Gavin van Marle and publisher Alex Lennane for a wide-ranging …
By Alexander Whiteman 19/06/2026 Deal or no deal, logistics operators are expanding their Gulf land bridge offerings with DHL, GWC, and Oman Air Cargo all pumping further capacity into the …
By Gavin van Marle 19/06/2026 A series of container freight spot rate hikes and general rate increases implemented on 15 June prompted another week of double-digit price rises on the …
By Alessandro Pasetti 19/06/2026 The forward-looking view on Danish forwarder DSV is always fascinating. That’s simply explained. The company – often promising to be better and more profitable than at …
By Charlotte Goldstone 19/06/2026 The gradual regionalisation of global supply chains is becoming one of the most important trends shaping container shipping, according to Braemar, as new trade agreements and …
By Alex Lennane 19/06/2026 As global freight markets begin to show signs of stabilisation after months of disruption, the industry’s largest forwarders have shown that recovering markets are not automatically …
By Bangladesh correspondent 19/06/2026 In a move designed to tackle chronic congestion and delays in airfreight exports, Bangladesh will permit private cargo operator stations to be established near its international …
By Alison Koo 19/06/2026 Feeder ships continue to dominate the boxship construction scene, including Chinese owners choosing to convert bulk carriers to container ships to beat the long wait for …
By Starboard 19/06/2026 Freight forwarding has plenty of AI demos. The harder test is whether the technology can handle the daily mess of the quote desk: emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, carrier …
By Charlotte Goldstone 18/06/2026 Container lines are increasingly deploying larger vessels on intra-Europe routes, with the number of ships above 8,000 teu operating in the Mediterranean rising by 78% year …
By Alexander Whiteman 18/06/2026 Forwarders may be short of confidence following confirmation that the US and Iran have signed a deal to end the war, but there have been green …
By Alison Koo 18/06/2026 Intra-Asia rates continue to rise year-on-year, as major ports are congested amid the early peak season, and there is a slow return of empty containers. On …
By Adam Clermont 18/06/2026 Key takeaway: The Postal Service’s push to bring operations in-house has cost more than 3,000 jobs across its contractor base in six months, and the companies …
By Alex Lennane 18/06/2026 WiseTech Global has attributed Tuesday’s CargoWise outage to a faulty data update, but the incident has reopened the wider debate among customers over software quality, support …
By Ian Putzger Americas correspondent 18/06/2026 Vacancy rates in the cold storage sector are at historically high rates. The development pipeline for new facilities is at a record low, which …
By Alessandro Pasetti 18/06/2026 Another event organised by a prominent sell-side house, another opportunity for Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena to make very clear how, in his personal view, the …
By SCS Australia 18/06/2026 When economists want to take the temperature of global trade, they increasingly look not at GDP revisions or purchasing manager indices, but at a number that …
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By Alexander Whiteman 17/06/2026 Opportunities are in the offing for forwarders and logistics operators, as the EU and the UK appear to be in sync when it comes to signing …
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By Gavin van Marle 17/06/2026 DP World looks set to finally break into the US market after entering into an “exclusive negotiation agreement” for a long-term lease to develop and …
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