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Shippers are demanding far more from their logistics providers as disruption and supply chain complexity increase – but that does not necessarily mean they are ready to make the leap from 3PL to 4PL. The latest annual Third-Party Logistics Study paints a contradictory picture of the shipper-3PL relationship: 88% of sh…
Key takeaway: A new federal initiative to run transmission infrastructure along rail corridors promises revenue for railroads and faster grid buildout for the country. But nobody is asking what it means for the freight that actually moves on those tracks. The US Department of Transportation has a new plan for the near…
Key takeaway: American freight railroads are in the middle of their strongest sustained run since before the pandemic. The industry is too busy fighting over a merger to notice. US freight railroads just posted their 22nd consecutive week of year-over-year traffic gains, and the reaction across the logistics trade has…
The Gemini Cooperation partners Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd today announced that four more Asia-Europe services are returning to Suez transits on their headhaul westbound sailings. The Asia-North Europe AE5 string, the Asia-Mediterranean AE11 and AE12 services, and the India-Europe ME2 service will “transit via the trans-S…
Container spot freight rates on the main east-west trades continued in much the same vein as they have since the beginning of August – slight declines on Asia-Europe trades offset by slight increases on the transpacific. This week’s World Container Index (WCI) by Drewry showed rates remaining elevated on the transpaci…
The EU’s €3 fee on low-value ecommerce parcels has already triggered a major shift in how goods enter Europe, with simplified customs declarations in Belgium falling around 50% year on year, according to Belgium's customs chief, Kristian Vanderwaeren. At the EU CBEC ecommerce forum yesterday, Mr Vanderwaeren, general …
In a nutshell: Chinese manufacturers have spent more than $200bn in three years building factories abroad, and China's logistics firms have followed with ports and rail lines of their own. This summer, both governments most exposed to that shift moved to police it within weeks of each other: Beijing restricting what i…
Маловодье на Рейне возвращается, а вместе с ним и обычные последствия: баржи принимают меньше груза, повышаются тарифы и надбавки, а грузоотправители начинают спрашивать, что вместо этого можно перевозить по железной дороге или грузовиком. Все это мы уже видели. В конце концов идет дождь, уровень воды восстанавливаетс…