Monthly Archives for May 2018

India urges port-based 3PLs to adapt to lessen trade reform’s impact India’s trade officials this week underscored that logistics reforms are designed to speed cargo and boost trade, and that the reforms are not without dislocation for selected stakeholders. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. Government officials reiterated at a joint meeting this week the importance of direct port […]

Poor Asia-Europe rail infrastructure slows cargo, hampers growth A concluence of factors have lengthened Asia-Europe freight train travel times. (Above: A freight train travels in Belarus.) Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. Infrastructure shortcomings are affecting China-Europe rail services growth by creating longer transit times and undermining service reliability, according to a major China-based user of the services. “The transit […]

Shippers decipher differentiation in crowded TMS market Innovations in the global transportation management system space are happening around the fringes, incorporating things like in-app messaging, better user interfaces, or applying Artificial Intelligence layers to existing optimization tools. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. Shippers have long had a litany of transportation management systems (TMS) from which to choose, […]

Q&A: Transplace CEO McGuigan details ‘new normal’ for US truckload shippers Logistics executives came to the Transpac Shipper Symposium this week hungry for solutions to what seem to be intractable problems of tight capacity and rising prices. And they received more than a few from Transplace CEO Frank McGuigan. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. FRISCO, Texas — […]

MTS Logistics BIke Tour To Benefit Autism Charity NEW YORK, NY, May 7, 2018 – MTS Logistics, an award-winning New York-based freight forwarder with a global client base, has announced its 8th Annual Bike Tour with MTS for Autism, to be held on Saturday, June 9th, 2018. Building on the success of last year’s bike […]

CEVA includes anti-takeover blocking proviso in stake sale to CMA CGM CEVA is now trading on the Swiss Exchange. Photo credit: CEVA An interesting sentence was included in the initial announcement that CMA CGM was planning to acquire a 25 percent stake in CEVA Logistics, a deal that was concluded in early May with the […]

Asia-Europe air cargo shippers locked into congested hubs The number of airplanes in the worldwide freighter fleet will increase by 70 percent during the next 20 years as air cargo traffic more than doubles, Boeing has forecast. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. Shippers importing air cargo into Europe can expect to face costly peak period congestion and […]

Insurance sensor policy simplifies shipper damage claims Insurer Munich Reinsurance Co. says it has for the last year tested the policy – known as Quality Shortfall Coverage – using a service provided by eProvenance, a cargo monitoring company, that created the sensor system along with an algorithm that calculates the impact of temperature and other […]

Top Canadian cargo airports attract new services, focus on speed Air cargo is changing — no longer is tonnage the sole, ultimate metric. Air cargo companies and the airports that serve them must be enterepreneurial-minded to meet the needs of transit-time, cost-sensitive shippers with their high-value cargo. So far, three key Canadian hubs are meeting […]

Russia eyes new truck program to cut shipper costs, boost local carriers Russia hopes to jump-start its truck transport sector – and save shippers considerable time and money – with a new program of incentives and subsidizes to support Russia-owned/operated vehicle transport of cargo to European Union destinations. (Above: A truck travels on a road […]