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Maersk has lost both its partners on Asia–East Coast South America in three months, and what looks like a local reshuffle is the alliance map redrawing on a trade the alliances never formally covered. In September, Zim quit Maersk's ASAS loop to launch the AS3/ZFS with Hapag-Lloyd; yesterday, Maersk and CMA CGM said t…
The beginning of China’s Golden Week national holiday yesterday appears to have coincided with a plateauing of the strong pricing peak that persisted on the transpacific trades throughout September. “Spot rates from Far East to the US ticked up again on 1 October, but we can say with a level of confidence that the mar…
Flydubai has had an interesting week – but the drama on the Tel Aviv flight rather overshadowed its launch of a freighter service in a bid to catch growing demand for ecommerce, specialised shipments and regional trade ill-served by narrowbody belly capacity. Yesterday, the airline introduced three B737-800 freighters…
In a move that could be a blow to air cargo booking platforms, WiseTech Global expects more forwarders to book airfreight directly within CargoWise, as it expands its airline connections and opens the platform to general sales and service agents. ATC Aviation Services, part of World Freight Company (WFC), has become t…
I have talked to quite a few investors and trade sources in recent weeks, looking for consensus about DSV's existential crisis as well as Kuehne + Nagel's temporary rebound on the stock market and leadership, or lack thereof in the post-KMK world. Reality With that in mind. "Am I going to pay 25x forward earnings for …
US consumers will spend 6.7% more online this shopping season than last year, as the mix of goods shifts and the share of internet purchases increases – partly thanks to AI. However, one industry expert does not expect a significant increase in parcel volume, nor serious delivery bottlenecks. Despite inflation, US con…
Airfreight is becoming an increasingly important contingency option for shippers, but new rules on direct air waybills could cause complexity, according to Global Shippers Forum director James Hookham. At Aviation Connect in Athens this week, Mr Hookham said air had traditionally been regarded as “Plan B”, but since C…
CH Robinson has strongly refuted allegations in a racketeering lawsuit brought by six US trucking companies, and confirmed that carriers within the Super Ego network are no longer part of its freight network. The company told The Loadstar that the complaint mischaracterised its carrier relationships and inaccurately d…
Look here: A fuel bill explains much of SF Holding's weak second quarter at its latest update, but it does not by itself explain the stock's valuation. SF trades between FedEx and UPS on 2026 earnings, but at less than half their EV/Ebitda multiple. KLN trades more cheaply still, but SF's 51.52% holding is worth only …
Look here: A fuel bill explains much of SF Holding's weak second quarter at its latest update, but it does not by itself explain the stock's valuation. SF trades between FedEx and UPS on 2026 earnings, but at less than half their EV/Ebitda multiple. KLN trades more cheaply still, but SF's 51.52% holding is worth only …
Data-centre investment is reshaping trade flows and putting new pressure on the industry’s capacity balance, with hi-tech now the main engine of air cargo growth, according to consultancy Aevean. Aevean data shows hi-tech air trade reached 3m tonnes in the first seven months of 2026, compared with 2.8m tonnes for Chin…
  A profitable quote does not always become a profitable shipment. In this episode of The Loadstar Podcast, host Charlotte Goldstone asks where freight forwarders lose money between booking and delivery, and what they can do to protect their margins. Emma Crumpton, enterprise solutions director at Portcast, expla…
On September 17, 2025, CH Robinson published its Carrier of the Year winners. In the category for fleets of more than 1,000 trucks, the list read “Super Ego, Chicago, IL.” It was the kind of announcement a company posts, a few people like, and everyone forgets. A year later, six family-owned trucking companies put it …
India needs to boost domestic oil and gas exploration to enhance its energy security amid supply disruptions that drive energy prices higher, according to a senior official at state-owned exploration and production company Oil India Limited (OIL). “Disruptions to global supply chains and major energy corridors can hav…
In a nutshell: The 66-page complaint six carriers filed in East Texas pleads every theory RICO offers, plus a false advertising claim for good measure. Read closely, it is weakest exactly where RICO cases usually die, and strongest where the brokerage industry is most exposed. On 17 September 2025, CH Robinson publish…
The Airforwarders Association (AfA) has appointed former Airlink president and chief executive Steve Smith as its new chief executive. He succeeds Brandon Fried, who has led the association for 21 years and will stay on during the transition. Mr Smith spent 13 years leading humanitarian logistics organisation Airlink,…
Airfreight markets are facing constant disruption, from shifting ecommerce flows and changing rates to tight capacity and growing uncertainty across major trade lanes. Tristan Koch, chief commercial officer at Awery Aviation Software, joins host Charlotte Goldstone to discuss the latest China-Europe ecommerce trends, …
With the last sailings before China’s Golden Week begins on 1 October, container spot rates on the transpacific trades finally began to tail off. Spot rates from Asia to the US west and east coasts have been consistently rising since the end of August in a late peak season pricing rally – last week they breached $10,0…
Saudi Arabia has sold almost 100 million barrels of crude to Asian buyers via the Strait of Hormuz since the middle of last week, when it pivoted to the chokepoint it wanted to avoid with the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea. With the pipeline out of service, the Kingdom has sold 100 million barrels of crude, which i…
Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen is understood to have arrived in Israel this week for a series of crucial meetings to convince the government to give the greenlight for its takeover of Zim. “The CEO of the German company Hapag-Lloyd, Rolf Haven Janssen, will arrive in Israel tomorrow, Calcalist has learned. The pur…
When is good news bad news? So: (Keeping in mind surging bond yields) "Business growth surges to fastest for over five years and job gains accelerate, but price pressures also intensify amid spike in costs." For more, click here. The post S&P Global US Flash PMI appeared first on The Loadstar .
Uber Freight is stepping up investment in its European 4PL business, despite acknowledging that shippers increasingly care less about whether their logistics provider is labelled a 3PL or 4PL. The company yesterday announced plans to expand its European fourth-party logistics operation, investing in technology, operat…
Pacific International Lines is preparing for a potentially significant leadership transition, after announcing that chief executive Lars Kastrup (above, right) is to step down and be replaced by Wan Chee Foong (above, left), currently MD, corporate strategy, at Temasek International, PIL’s owner. The Singapore-headqua…
… the full statement can be found here. In a nutshell: "The Offeror [a consortium led by FedEx and Advent International] and InPost are pleased to jointly announce that, given all Offer Conditions have been satisfied, the Offeror declares the Offer unconditional (doet gestand). Settlement will take place on 30 S…
Four in five of the AI-built quotes on cargo.one go out without a person touching them. Every team running at that number started at zero, with a person reading every quote, trusting none of them. What happened in between was not a leap of faith, and it was not simply time. Trust is a process, and like any process in …
This succession series began with a simple observation: plenty of European logistics entrepreneurs are getting older, while rather fewer sons and daughters seem interested in taking over the family forwarder. The second column looked at who might buy these businesses. The third ventured into the more delicate territor…
PRESS RELEASE PIL Announces Planned Leadership Succession: Wan Chee Foong Appointed Deputy CEO, to Succeed Lars Kastrup as CEO in April 2027 22 September, 2026 The appointment follows a Board-led succession process. Mr Kastrup will continue as CEO during a six-month handover before taking on an advisory role to the Bo…
DSV forwarding rival Kuehne + Nagel made the headlines today. Why? Here's what our Lawrence had to say about its tie-up with Amazon. Elsewhere, it was broadly a good day for T&L stock, as you read on DeskOne here. Even battered DSV seemed to benefit from its competitor's announcement. And then – suddenly. Down -1%…
In a nutshell: Amazon’s call option on Kuehne + Nagel shares – as disclosed today here – fits a broader pattern of using milestone-linked economics to align key commercial relationships. What is different here is the counterparty: Kuehne + Nagel is not only a supplier, but also a major logistics provider operating in …
There are not many opportunities in life to start again with a completely blank sheet of paper – particularly when the people holding the pen have decades of experience behind them. But that is precisely what the founders of newly launched Cherry’s Logistics are attempting to do. The Hamburg-headquartered forwarder be…