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New Features and Cutting-Edge Enhancements to Beroe Live.ai to Bring Speed, Insight, and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Capabilities to Procurement Intelligence. Scan Global Logistics expands into Ireland to strengthen Transatlantic trade network. Dachser bundles the majority of LCL sea freight shipments from Europe in Rotterdam.
Gemini warns of 'meltdown' when Suez reopens - The Loadstar
10/10/2024. Maersk has warned of an “operational meltdown” when carriers are able to use the Suez Canal again. The Danish liner, along with Hapag-Lloyd, announced their hub-and-spoke Gemini Cooperation services would go round the Cape of Good Hope instead of the still-volatile Red Sea. Maersk told customers yesterday: “After thorough ...
Box lines declare force majeure as White House defends ILA - The …
By Alex Lennane. 02/10/2024. Shipping lines are beginning to declare force majeure, as the US east and Gulf coast port strike enters its second day. Any hope from employer association USMX that the government might intervene to halt the economically damaging strike was dashed yesterday, when the White House landed firmly on the side of the union.
China tightens rules on hazardous cargo at Ningbo - The Loadstar
Oct 9, 2024 · Container lines, already squeezed by schedule pressures due to the longer transits around the Cape of Good Hope, now have another challenge to deal with: tighter regulations in China for hazardous cargo.
Red Sea crisis proving 'a boom period' for feeder operators - The …
By Charlotte Goldstone. 24/10/2024. The ‘new normal’ of ocean shipping disruption is good news for feeder operators, which have been growing their fleets rapidly over the past year. This week Alphaliner reported that Singapore-headquartered X-Press Feeders had expanded its fleet by an “impressive” 21.8% since last October, adding 35,000 ...
SASI World Total Freighter Management to ensure profitable …
By SASI World. 07/10/2024. SASI World expands its global all cargo service practises, offering focussed freighter route and network optimization and revenue management techniques to ensure profitable operations, complementing our “Smart Cargo Airports™” programs and advisory re purchase, leasing and operating freighters . October 05, 2024.
Photo Blog: Maersk names latest dual-fuel methanol vessel …
Oct 9, 2024 · Today, AP Moller-Maersk named its newest dual-fuel methanol vessel Alexandra Maersk at Felixstowe, the UK’s busiest container port.Alexandra Maersk will be deployed on an Asia-Europe service.. Alexandra Maersk is the sixth vessel in Maersk’s owned fleet able to sail on methanol in its main and auxiliary engines. It is the fifth ship in a series of 18 large dual-fuel methanol vessels ...
$102m settlement agreed in first case after MV Dali's Baltimore …
By Alex Lennane. 25/10/2024. The US has settled its civil case against the owner and operator of the MV Dali, which crashed into a Baltimore bridge in March. The Justice Department announced that Singapore firms Grace Ocean and Synergy Marine will pay nearly $102m to settle the claim for costs related to damage to the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
FedEx Freight up for grabs? But who's big enough to take it on?
Jul 5, 2024 · Mr Jindel, who had advised FedEx chief Fred Smith in 1997 to take over Caliber System (followed by subsequent acquisitions in the LTL arena to build the largest operator), urged him in 2021 to consider a spin-off of FedEx Freight. He estimated at the time that FedEx Freight could be valued at $34bn – today, its valuation should be around ...
GXO Logistics takeover talk – scent of box line interest - The …
11/10/2024. The shares of GXO Logistics shot up yesterday on the stock market as reports did the rounds that a sale of the world’s largest, listed, pure-play contract-logistics (CL) firm could be on the cards. That wasn’t part of our recent M&A landscape coverage that focused on deal-making in forwarding, when we wrote ’Nothing chunky to ...