Freight is up nine percent at Port of Kapellskär
There is an upward trend in freighted goods at Port of Kapellskär, Ports of Stockholm’s largest freight port. Despite the worldwide pandemic, freight volumes in...
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Adapt, regroup, redeploy, adapt again: Air freight survives a roller coaster year
Randy Sinker thought he had seen just about everything over his more than 30 years in the airfreight and logistics business. That was until 2020....
‘It Was Like Whack-a-Mole at First’
The COVID-19 chaos of 2020 forced many manufacturers to slow production and delay shipments. It ignited a struggle by health care organizations to equip ICUs,...
$5.8 Million Fake Rolex Haul Busted at Port of Cincinnati
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 85 counterfeit Rolex Watches that displayed the brand’s protected trademark last week.Photo: cbp.govFake Rolex watches have a growing...
Djibouti’s Ambitious Growth Projects in 2021
DJIBOUTI, Djibouti, 3 February 2021, – Djibouti pursues its ambitious growth projects in spite of the particularly challenging international economic situation arising from the health...
Hope Consortium adds more forwarders to Covid-19 vaccine distribution efforts
More freight forwarders have joined the Hope Consortium, a UAE-based public-private partnership, to support the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines across the globe. The latest partners...
Global food trade has been upended by a container crisis
Global competition for the ribbed steel containers means that Thailand can’t ship its rice, Canada is stuck with peas and India can’t offload its mountain...
Ocean-based climate solutions are an important and overlooked pathway
This piece originally ran on World Resource Institute. For decades, warning signals sent by ocean ecosystems — such as increased sea surface temperature, sea-level rise...
Agri exports to Gulf states via Safaga Port up 33 percent
Sea freight traffic between the ports of Safaga on the Red Sea and Dhiba in Saudi Arabia saw an increase in volume, while the average...
How China’s growing appetite for containers is upending global food trade
Food is piling up in all the wrong places, thanks to carriers hauling empty shipping containers.
Global competition for the...