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‘What’s the spread on that?’ Cheers as BIFA Freight Awards go live again

After the madness of the past couple of years, there was an air of euphoria at yesterday’s BIFA Freight Service Awards ceremony in London, when around 500 forwarders were let off the leash to go on the lash.
Routinely held on the third Thursday of January, during what would normally be the beginning of the slack season, the annual BIFA Awards, are often rumbustious affairs, but this year there was a …

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Yantian limits intake of export containers amid new year holiday rush

Hutchison Ports says Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) in southern China lowered the cut-off time for receiving outbound containers since Wednesday, claiming delayed ship arrivals have caused containers to pile up in its yard.
YICT is one of three sub-ports that make up Shenzhen port, the others being Nanshan and Dachan Bay.
Shenzhen is China’s third-busiest container port, after Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan, and the fourth-busiest in the world. In 2020, Shenzhen handled …

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Freight tech provider shifl shifts into fintech market

Logitech provider shifl (Yiddish for ship) unveiled its latest offering today when it launched shifl capital, a free instant freight payment system.
It derives from the US-based company’s banking experience and was developed to incorporate shifl’s supply chain visibility functionality.
This means a shipper, BCO or freight forwarder using the system can see when the box passes particular stages of its supply train journey which require payments to be made. The user …

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DP World launches premium barge service between Upper Rhine and Rotterdam

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New barge product to provide sustainable and reliable transport between the Upper Rhine region and Rotterdam
Upper Rhine corridor to launch in February 2022

 
20 January 2022 – London, UK – DP World customers are set to benefit from a new premium barge service between the Upper Rhine region and Rotterdam World Gateway starting on 1 February 2022.
The strength of this new service is that by bundling containers in the hinterland, it …

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The Loadstar Podcast | Episode 1: Freight mini-spike or multimodal crunch as CNY factory closures loom?

2022 is already shaping up to be a year of daunting challenges for freight and shipping. Carriers by sea, air, ocean and rail can expect healthy profits. But for buyers, managing procurement and inventories has never been more important.
The lead-in to all-important Chinese New Year factory closures at the start of February is the focus of this episode. Are we seeing the traditional mini-peak or is there a looming multimodal …

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Clash of IT systems brings delays as new border controls are plugged in

European shippers moving imports of animal origin have faced repeated struggles at the UK border.
There have been interaction difficulties between the Import of Products, Animals, Food and Feed (IPAFFS) and the Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) digital customs systems.
A source told The Loadstar that, while most import operations into the UK following Brexit had so far “proceeded without major problems”, there were continuing issues with the movement …

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The next three years a challenging journey to a same-day delivery nirvana

Retailers have a mountain to climb: they see a burning need to add same-day delivery to their online shopping game, but lack the capability.
For its 2022 Bringg Barometer, The State of Retail Delivery and Fulfilment, published last week, delivery and fulfilment cloud platform provider Bringg interviewed retailers in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany and Italy about their goals and challenges.
Virtually all respondents, 99%, said they intended to add …

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Against the odds: US banana importer joins trucker’s FMC action against Hapag-Lloyd

In response to this week’s Loadstar story on South Korean antitrust regulators fining 23 container lines for price-fixing on the intra-Asia trades between 2003 and 2018, one source sent a WhatsApp message to our editorial team that said simply: “And so it begins…”
This is one of the several transport executives who have been engaged over the last few months as expert witnesses by law firms that are beginning to prepare …

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Bangladesh fears ‘inadequate’ feeder services could result in a cotton crisis

Bangladeshi textile millers fear a massive shortage of cotton in the coming months, as shipping lines seem ‘unwilling’ to carry Chittagong-bound cargo owing to a shortage of feeder vessels.
“Mother vessels wait in transhipment ports, but feeder services are inadequate and fail to reach them in time,” said Mohammad Ali Khokon, president of the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA).
With no deepsea port, Bangladeshi textile exports and imports are dependent on feeder …

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No sign of promised improved wait times for European barge operators

Congestion along northern Europe’s inland waterways is proving erratic as we enter the third week of 2022, with bright spots possibly a “mirage”.
Contargo has recorded two successive weeks of declining wait times – a December high of 75 hours now down to 56 hours – but one source told The Loadstar they had seen no change in load and unload times.
“We are in a fixed contract with a top-five carrier, …

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