AD Ports Group and Ghassan Aboud Group to develop 3.3 sq km Regional Food Trading and Logistics Hub
Covering a land area of 3.3 sq. km in KIZAD, the new regional hub will bring together wholesale buyers, sellers, logistics players,...
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Raymond STERN
Feb 10, 2022
France Rungis signs agreement to create agro-logistics hub in Abu Dhabi
Semmaris, the company managing the International Market of Rungis, has signed a partnership agreement with the GAG Ghassan Aboud Group...
Raymond STERN
Jan 26, 2022
The top 5 supply chain and logistics trends for 2022
The challenges of the pandemic have brought the concept of digital transformation to the fore in the past 2 years. Manufacturers have...
Raymond STERN
Jan 21, 2022
Einride x GE Appliances | First autonomous electric shipping installation in the U.S.
Einride and GE Appliances, a Haier company, unveil the first autonomous and electric freight installation on U.S. soil. The partnership...
Raymond STERN
Jan 4, 2022
K+N targets Africa with network expansion
Freight forwarding giant Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) has expanded its presence in Africa through the addition of several new offices across the...
Raymond STERN
Jan 4, 2022
British Freight Lobby Slams ‘Profiteering’ in Container Shipping
BIFA cites ‘huge market consolidation’ needing investigation Rates for air and ocean freight have more than tripled The British...
Raymond STERN
Oct 3, 2021
Kuwaiti logistics group Agility and France’s Orange has won a fraud claim against a Lebanese bank
A joint venture between Kuwaiti logistics group Agility and France’s Orange has won a fraud claim against a Lebanese bank concerning an...
Raymond STERN
Sep 30, 2021
Rising holiday toy demand faces supply chain hurdles as costs and shipping delays threaten shopping
Nathan Resnick, Sourcify Founder joins Yahoo Finance’s Aarthi Swaminathan with the latest from Sourcify as holiday toy demand faces...
Raymond STERN
Sep 30, 2021
CMA CGM Group orders two Boeing 777 freighters
Boeing and shipping and logistics company CMA CGM Group, have announced the purchase of two new Boeing 777 Freighters to grow the Group’s...
Raymond STERN
Sep 29, 2021
Port of L.A. Director Says More Federal Funding Needed for West Coast
Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka talks about easing the bottleneck at his port and others along the west coast. He says...
Raymond STERN
Sep 23, 2021
Container ships now piling up at anchorages off China’s ports
More signs that trans-Pacific liner capacity has overwhelmed port capacity. There are over 60 container ships full of import cargo stuck...
Raymond STERN
Sep 20, 2021
A tsunami of change for ocean freight
Ocean freight challenges are expected to last well into 2022, CSCMP panelists say. It’s been a rough ride for ocean freight of late....
Raymond STERN
Sep 19, 2021
Agility Chairperson Henadi Al-Saleh speaks about digital transformation at Agility (AR)
Agility Chairperson Henadi Al-Saleh spoke at a panel during the launch of the Sahel application. The Sahel application, launched by the...
Raymond STERN
Sep 15, 2021
‘Just Get Me a Box’: Inside the Brutal Realities of Supply Chain Hell
Logistics managers are battling the pandemic, a labor shortage, and huge demand to get goods to your front door. It’s mid-August, and...
Raymond STERN
Sep 15, 2021
AGILITY invests in Volta Trucks : €37 million of Series B funding
Tarek Sultan, Agility CEO: ''Volta Trucks and Agility share a vision of a zero-emissions future and a determination to make it happen...
Raymond STERN
Sep 14, 2021
Startup HUUB acquired by Maersk
Today A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk) announces the acquisition of HUUB, a Portuguese cloud-based logistics start-up, specialised in...
Raymond STERN
Sep 12, 2021
Cargo rate freeze won't solve shipping strains
Wider range of Chinese exports to US face delays, including Christmas gifts Recent moves made by international shipping companies' to...
Raymond STERN
Sep 12, 2021
Aramex Kuwait Expands Its Facility In Agility Logistics Park In Sulaibiya
Aramex has selected the Agility Logistics Park (ALP) in Sulaibiya as the location for its new 16,000 SQM e-fulfillment center in Kuwait....
Raymond STERN
Sep 12, 2021
Raymond STERN
Sep 12, 2021
Kout Food Group Opens Distribution Center at Agility Logistics Park in Sulaibiya
Agility & Kout Food Group (KFG) inaugurated KFG’s new distribution center. The distribution center is located at the new Agility...
Raymond STERN
Sep 9, 2021
Carriers 'moving in' on landside services could push forwarders out of business
Shipping lines tightening their grip on the container supply chain could result in many independent forwarders “disappearing”, it was...
Raymond STERN
Sep 3, 2021
Amazon Is Quietly Shipping Non-Amazon Orders To Compete With FedEx, UPS
Amazon is on a spending spree to grow its fleet of planes, vans, semitrucks and drivers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS....
Raymond STERN
Aug 31, 2021
Amazon relaunches souq.com as amazon.eg
Amazon announced Wednesday re-launching Souq.com as Amazon.eg, a dedicated online store for customers in Egypt. It clarified that the...
Raymond STERN
Aug 31, 2021
First GEODIS Aircraft is Taking Off
GEODIS upgrades its AirDirect services between Europe, the United States and Asia with its own leased A330-300 full freighter aircraft....
Raymond STERN
Aug 31, 2021
Freight turmoil hitting red meat exports
In an increasingly competitive world, Australia has some innate advantages in delivering high quality red meat protein to global markets:...
Raymond STERN
Aug 27, 2021
Menap logistics sector to keep on ‘trucking’
Janardan Dalmia, founder and chief executive of Trukkin, said the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are three potential growth markets for...
Raymond STERN
Aug 22, 2021
Geodis Launches US D2C Fulfilment for E-commerce Brands
Geodis eLogistics is a new service offer emerging D2C brands flexible and affordable inventory storage and e-commerce fulfilment Geodis...
Raymond STERN
Aug 22, 2021
The shipping crisis is getting worse. Here's what that means for holiday shopping
The vast network of ports, container vessels and trucking companies that moves goods around the world is badly tangled, and the cost of...
Raymond STERN
Aug 21, 2021
Gartner Summer Webinar Series: The Increased Role of Visibility in Supply Chain.
Without end-to-end visibility into products, processes and data, global supply chains can’t monitor and mitigate costly disruptions. So...
Raymond STERN
Aug 20, 2021
Container Shipping Earnings Now Rival Apple. It’s Not a Good Look
Container lines are making oodles of money from their customers’ misery. If the profiteering label sticks, they risk a policy backlash in...
Raymond STERN
Aug 17, 2021
No plans to sell DB Schenker as DSV rumours resurface
DB Schenker has said there are no current plans to sell the company as rumours of DSV Panalpina’s interest in the Deutsche Bahn-owned...
Raymond STERN
Aug 16, 2021
DHL to stick with an opportunistic approach to acquisitions
Deutsche Post (DP) DHL will maintain an opportunistic approach to freight forwarding acquisitions despite the spate of takeovers recently...
Raymond STERN
Aug 15, 2021
أجيليتي" الكويتية تبيع الخدمات اللوجستية العالمية "GIL" إلى شركة "DSV Panalpina" الدنماركية
أعلنت شركة أجيليتي للمخازن العمومية، المُدرجة ببورصتي الكويت ودبي، عن إتمام صفقة بيع نشاط شركة الخدمات اللوجستية العالمية المتكاملة...
Raymond STERN
Aug 15, 2021
DSV Panalpina targets growth after completing Agility GIL deal
DSV Panalpina has completed the takeover of the logistics arm of Agility – Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) — in a deal with an...
Raymond STERN
Aug 12, 2021
Rates for container ships will be strong until next Chinese New Year at least: Jefferies
Randy Giveans, head of the energy maritime shipping equity research group at Jefferies, discusses the main factors behind the spike in...
Raymond STERN
Aug 12, 2021
Raymond STERN
Aug 12, 2021
The impact of sea freight rates on commodity prices
Recently, ocean freight has risen sharply. I chatted with some friends and mentioned that the port congestion in the United States is...
Raymond STERN
Aug 12, 2021
DHL to stick with an opportunistic approach to acquisitions
Deutsche Post (DP) DHL will maintain an opportunistic approach to freight forwarding acquisitions despite the spate of takeovers recently...
Raymond STERN
Aug 12, 2021
Supply-chain delays and skyrocketing shipping costs hit Cort furniture leasing company hard
Cort is experiencing delays and costly inflation at every stage in its supply chain. Its shipments have been months behind schedule amid...
Raymond STERN
Aug 11, 2021
Automated e-commerce distribution center for DSV
The overall solution not only allowed for the existing operation to continue, it also enabled the e-commerce capacity growth that DSV...
Raymond STERN
Aug 11, 2021
Etihad Cargo revenues offset “dip” in passenger in H1 2021
Etihad Airways’s half-year cargo revenues offset a “dip” in passenger operations, as it continues to make a “progressive recovery” in the...
Raymond STERN
Aug 10, 2021
Amazon Air opens $1.5bn US cargo hub
Amazon Air has opened its huge new $1.5bn air hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) that will serve as the...
Raymond STERN
Aug 4, 2021
Exporters’ demand measures to address logistics issues in India
Textile and garment exporters have sought measures by the Union government to address the issue of container shortage. In an interaction...
Raymond STERN
Aug 4, 2021
Preighters unlikely to offset rising air cargo demand
The use of passenger aircraft in an all-cargo configuration is unlikely to offset rising air cargo demand for the peak season. Writing in...
Raymond STERN
Aug 1, 2021
Air cargo from China to North America hectic, facing capacity shortages and delay
Shortage of transport capacity, delays may loom soon. Demand for air freight capacity from China to North America is rising as the global...
Raymond STERN
Jul 30, 2021
Saipem falls to first-half loss but eyes pick-up in sales
Contractor’s results buffeted by Covid-19 and issues at North Sea wind project Saipem reported on Friday second quarter earnings that...
Raymond STERN
Jul 29, 2021
DSV Panalpina aims for more market share as it looks to integrate Agility
Freight forwarders serve shippers much better than shipping lines – and large forwarders are best of all, claimed DSV Panalpina in its...
Raymond STERN
Jul 28, 2021
Shipping prices may be heading higher but are ‘not super yet,’ analysts say
Shipping rates are at multi-year highs, but have not reached the bull cycle peaks of the past, said Rashpal Bhatti, vice president of...
Raymond STERN
Jul 28, 2021
China-Europe rail gets Vietnam connection, but huge mode shift brings delays
Booming China-Europe rail freight has expanded to Vietnam, but high demand and bad weather means lengthy delays. Due to overstretched...
Raymond STERN
Jul 26, 2021
Freightify announces $2.5 million funding from Tradeworks VC, Venture Catalysts.
The company's platform handles more than $400 milion in freight revenue for customers and a corresponding GMV of $2 billion. Freightify,...
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