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IKEA’s sustainable leadership story: cutting emissions by 70% per shipment

Any freight and logistics company that thinks it can put environmental concerns on the backburner needs to think again. Because customers are putting the environment at the top of their lists. Smart Freight Centre is showcasing the strategies of some major shippers, leading the way on how to work towards carbon neutrality. It’s IKEA this time. “Our long term ambition is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70% per shipment …

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Vaccines: a shot in the arm for economies – and retail forwarders

The UK is among those countries looking forward to an economic rebound when lockdown finally comes to an end – alongside expected newfound consumer confidence following a (literal) jab in the arm. With an extra £125bn holed up in bank accounts, as consumers have been unable to consume much, the Bank of England is expecting a nice fillip for the economy. And forwarders are gearing up for an influx of …

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Serious industrial action at port of Melbourne on the way, VICT warns

Industrial action looks set to return to the port of Melbourne after the Maritime Union of Australia notified the terminal that its members would strike next week in a dispute over wages at the port’s Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT). The facility is Australia’s first box terminal to deploy automation and has long been a particular source of ire for the MUA. Liner body Shipping Australia has published an analysis of the dispute, concluding that the new wage demands could …

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Gove: Northern Ireland post-Brexit trade disruption not ‘teething problems’

Crisis in the cabinet? As UK prime minister Boris Johnson continues to push the notion that troubles at the Northern Irish border are little more than “teething problems”, minster Michael Gove has admitted these are significant problems that will not fall away unless addressed by the EU and UK. Mr Gove’s comments may temper the concerns of some: the RHA and a number of forwarders have told The Loadstar over …

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KDB eyes sale of stake in box line HMM to steel giant POSCO

Interesting news from South Korea this morning: BusinessKorea reports that the state-owned Korea Development Bank, which became the largest shareholder in container shipping line HMM after its restructure in 2017, intends to sell its 12.6% stake to South Korean steel manufacturing giant POSCO. Which would possibly make for a fascinating example of vertical integration, given POSCO’s enormous logistics spend. “If POSCO directly jumps into the shipping industry, it is expected …

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Carriers reject US agricultural exports for empty boxes to China

The argument over the apparent refusal of many container lines to accept US agricultural export bookings in preference to returning empty containers back to China in recent months shows no sign of going away. This exhaustive analysis by industry analyst Lori Ann LaRocco, published by CNBC, has established that container shipping lines rejected some 177,938 teu of US export shipments in October and November, which is likely to lead to …

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Calls to vaccinate California port workers to prevent shutdown

If things weren’t difficult enough at the Los Angeles/Long Beach container hub gateway, what with soaring levels of congestion and some 30-plus box ships at any given time waiting at anchor to berth, rampant Covid-19 infection rates in California threaten to deplete the number of dockers available to work, LA port director Gene Seroka estimates that up to 1,800 dockers may already be on coronavirus-related sick leave, according to Maritime …

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Amazon isn’t going into the 3PL business; it’s already there

Fascinating op-ed from Freightwaves detailing Amazon’s push into freight forwarding and other logistics services. The author argues that the development of the e-commerce giant’s Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is its supply chain equivalent to Amazon Web Services, which comprises over 85 different services for running applications, storing data and managing networking, computing and developing.
A similarly holistic end-to-end approach can be seen at work in FBA: “Amazon has the ability and …

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Scottish shellfish lorries in Brexit protest park-up at Downing Street

Traffic is plaguing Whitehall after “dozens” of (mostly) Scottish shellfish lorries parked up outside Downing Street in protest at the post-Brexit challenges faced by UK fishing, The Scotsman reports. Last week, numerous fisheries announced they would be suspending services to the EU, as they struggled to get to grips with new customs formalities – a problem not being helped by weak guidance from UK authorities. Signs plastered over the lorries …

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