Shipping & Freight Resource

If you are managing freight today, you would have already felt it.. Capacity tightening without much warning, rates moving faster than your contracts can keep up, and routing decisions needing …

~20,000 Seafarers are paying for a war they didn’t want or choose.. We should all be ashamed..!! Twenty thousand human beings.. Civilian workers.. People with families waiting for them at …

Transnet SOC Ltd has announced the appointment of Mohammed Abdool as Chief Executive of Transnet National Ports Authority, effective 01 May 2025.. Mohammed Abdool brings over 29 years of professional …

I was fortunate enough to attend Bryan Adams’ “Rolling with the Punches” concert over the weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa.. My word, what a performance and performer..!! Somewhere between the …

Ten years ago, I wrote a little birthday tribute to the container.. It was a moment to pause and appreciate just how far this humble steel box had come since …

Supply chain teams are under pressure they haven’t felt in a generation. Tariffs, port congestion, and the whiplash of pandemic-era disruption have forced a hard look at where fulfillment networks …

In my previous article on Document of Title not equalling Ownership of Goods, I made the point that holding a Document of Title does not automatically make you the owner …

Multi-load food shipments are a common practice, but without the right precautions, it creates the perfect conditions for cross-contamination. Just one of these incidents can cost carriers and operators between …

Containers do not lie.. They show what is moving, what is not, and where the pressure points in global trade really are.. In this edition of Executive Insights, Lori Ann …

Nobody in shipping thinks of themselves as bad at documents. Forwarders send them. Brokers file them. Suppliers produce them. But the point where most import shipments lose time and money …

There are moments in this industry when numbers stop being just numbers and begin to represent something far deeper, and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), approaching a fleet of 1,000 ships …

The term Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier was formally defined under the US Shipping Act of 1984 (46 U.S.C. § 40102).. This Act codified the NVOCC as an operator that issues …

If you are moving cargo across Asia Pacific right now, you already sense that the market is not behaving the way it normally does.. Rates are moving without a clear …

This is one of those distinctions that trips up a LOT of people in global trade, including some who have been in the business for years.. A Document of Title …