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The post-Covid US trade slowdown is impacting household goods demand far more seriously than industrial freight demand, according to analysts appearing on the latest episode of The Freight Buyers’ Club podcast, produced with the support of the Dimerco Express Group. This explains why since the second half of 2022, the trans-Pacific container trade...

India is poised to become a major global manufacturer and exporter as multi-nationals seek alternatives to China and investment transforms trade processes and logistics infrastructure, according to senior trade experts and practitioners. Speaking on the latest episode of The Freight Buyers’ Club podcast, produced with the support of Dimerco...

Heavy investment at the height of the pandemic has created excess capacity across freight markets and modes of transport, both in the US and globally, according to Paul Bingham, Director of Supply Chain Transportation Consulting, S&P Global Market Intelligence. Now demand is softening, this is exposing the financial vulnerability...

Logistics investments have locked in some trade to eastern terminals, says RILA’s Jessica Dankert The expansion of the Panama Canal locks and ambitious port investments have helped shift the logistics watershed of the US eastwards, claims Alphaliner’s Jan Tiedemann   The “tentative” end of the impasse between US West...

Jan Tiedemann, Head Analyst at Alphaliner, says “for the first time in history” the latest fleet additions are replacement vessels rather than designed to boost global capacity and increase the penetration of containerisation.   With record deliveries of container ships expected this year and next, most analysts have predicted...

Analyst: Looming US economic recession might not kill the peak season  Freight markets and economic growth have decoupled in the past and may do so again, according to Lee Klaskow, Senior Freight and Transportation Logistics Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence.  “Even if we do go into a recession, I don’t necessarily...