Hazardous materials are goods and products that need special management to be packaged, palletized, and loaded. In some cases, they require special machines, equipment, and containers to be shipped safely. In brief, Hazardous materials are products that can present a threat to living creatures. Hazardous materials are different in form, nature, and size. They can be anything […]

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Container ship operators that canceled more than half their sailings to China, as coronavirus-driven restrictions froze work at its ports last month, are bracing for a second wave of disruption. Now that China has resumed exporting, shipping companies expect thousands of shipments to be stranded at seaports as the pandemic engulfs the U.S. and Europe.

An environmental rule hitting the maritime world at the turn of the New Year will open a steep divide in operating costs across shipping markets. A large share of vessel operators have chosen to limit their sulfur emissions with exhaust systems called scrubbers that trap sulfur created by fuel-burning engines. The systems cost several million

Members of THE Alliance, Ocean Network Express (ONE), Hapag-Lloyd, and Yang Ming announced a fourth member, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), a South Korean container liner shipping company to join THE Alliance as a full member. Through this, the members of THE Alliance have also decided to establish a new cooperation with four members and a

B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B (business-to-business) have currently been kept separate when discussing logistics. With the growth of e-commerce, consumers (in B2C operations) have been used to being continuously informed about the movement of goods, even with the possibility of changing the destination while the product is moving. These experiences – amplified by the influx of

GLA Family Global Logistics Alliance(GLA) is a network for over 5,000 logistics companies from 128 countries in the world. GLA provides a platform for helping our memberships find business, reliable overseas agent with integrity and expand their global business network as they can post agent request, inquiry and competitive rate etc in GLA home page. GLA aims

1. The Truck Driver Shortage Will Expand With No End In Sight Over the past year, the U.S. has experienced a shortage in truckers as a result of exploding demand and an aging workforce. As of now, it appears unlikely that this truck driver shortage will end soon. World Bank data shows that U.S. import and

Rachel Humphrey established the Universal Freight Organisation (UFO) in January 2000 (Registered in the UK. Company No 3966794) to provide independent freight forwarders access to a trusted, worldwide network of agents who could handle their shipments, whilst working professionally and safely under a strict Code of Conduct. Today, UFO is an ISO 9001 (Quality Management)

FedEx Ground U.S. expanded operations to six days per week in response to the growing e-commerce demand and record influx of volume expected this holiday season, and beyond. FedEx anticipated early on that the growth of e-commerce would significantly increase demand throughout our network, and we underwent a transformation by opening new facilities and investing

The accomplishment marked the first time a ship has surpassed the once-mythical 19,000 TEU mark. The Mumbai Maersk, one of Maersk’s second generation Triple-E’s, set the record this past weekend at the Tanjung Pelepas Port in Malaysia. The ship is now sailing for Rotterdam, where it is expected to arrive September 5th. Mumbai Maersk has

The OECD aims is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. We measure