Reno, United States — September 12, 2025 Truck yards are filling up, rail ramps are stretched, and a new red flag is flashing: cargo theft. The ITS Logistics September Index released Thursday paints a stark picture of the U.S. freight market just weeks before the holiday rush. “Inland congestion is back, and...
Oslo, Norway — September 11, 2025 Ships are getting ready. The fuels are not. That’s the blunt message from DNV, one of the world’s leading classification societies, in its latest outlook on maritime decarbonization. The report notes that hundreds of vessels are now ordered with dual-fuel engines or designed for alternative fuels...
New York, United States — 9 September 2025 The numbers speak for themselves. Less than two weeks after Washington scrapped the de minimis threshold, international parcel flows handled by USPS have collapsed by around 80 percent. What was once a steady stream of small fashion items, gadgets and home accessories has...
Cherchell, Algeria — September 9, 2025 Bulldozers are back on the coast near Cherchell. After years of silence, Algeria has revived work on El-Hamdania, a deep-water port project valued at 4.7 billion dollars and backed by Chinese partners. The site, about 80 kilometers west of Algiers, had stood idle, a symbol of...
Rades, Tunisia — September 9, 2025 At Rades, the country’s busiest container port, the scene has become alarming. Yard space is overflowing. Containers pile up, some left waiting for almost three weeks, and vessels struggle to unload. Port officials now admit that more than 11,000 containers remain stuck inside the terminal. “It’s...
Beijing, China — September 9, 2025 It came quietly, but the numbers tell a warning story. In August, Chinese exports to Russia tumbled — the sharpest drop since March. Factories are slowing, shipments sit longer in ports, and the rumble of unease is growing. “I’ve seen demand dry up,” sighed a Shanghai-based...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 MEXICO CITY — September 4, 2025. The news broke quietly last night, but its impact is already echoing across the freight community. Radiant Logistics has picked up a majority stake — 80% — in Weport, a forwarder well known along the U.S.–Mexico border for...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 RIYADH — September 4, 2025. Freight forwarders across the Gulf woke up today with a new option on their radar. FedEx has cut the ribbon on a regional hub in Riyadh, a project valued at $1.5 billion, supported by Boeing 777 freighters flying six...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 LAREDO — September 4, 2025. Long queues of trucks stretched for kilometers outside the Laredo crossing early this morning, as cross-border freight surged in the run-up to Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations. For forwarders and shippers, the bottlenecks are hitting just as demand for automotive...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 HONG KONG — September 4, 2025. The emails started landing late Tuesday night. By dawn on Wednesday, forwarders from Shenzhen to Hamburg were already forwarding the same subject lines to their teams: “blank sailing,” “rotation removed,” “schedule change.” Golden Week doesn’t begin until next week,...
