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28/05/2026 There has never been a more significant time to run a freight forwarding business. The industry has always operated on thin margins and high headcounts. But the numbers are about to move, and the direction they move depends entirely on when forwarders decide to act. The economy has been stubborn for decades. Gross margins

Vulcan Energy has announced it has achieved Financial Close as part of the €2.2bn Lionheart Project equity and debt financing arrangements.

Epiroc AB, a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has entered into a strategic partnership with SANY Group, a global leader in construction machinery and other heavy equipment.

ABB has established a strategic partnership with Point Laz, a leading developer of mine shaft monitoring technologies, in a joint effort to support and improve the safety and operational efficiency of underground mining operations.

Photo: © Eq Roy 27/05/2026 Excluding ships caught up in the fracas in the Persian Gulf, the container shipping sector’s scheme for full employment appears to be working, with virtually none of the rest of the world’s 33m teu cellular fleet idle. In its latest round-up, Alphaliner counted just 59 (representing 189,285 teu) vessels out

Photo: © Yong hian Lim 27/05/2026 Maersk is looking to capitalise on the “firm” China-Australia lane with its latest “lean service” announcement. The Danish shipping line on Friday announced a new service serving the Greater China region to/from Australia. The Qilin service will link Shanghai, Sydney and Melbourne from 24 July and complement Maersk’s existing

Photo: © Mykhailo Polenok, Dreamstime.com 27/05/2026 The Canadian government has been aggressively pursuing trade agreements with partners around the world to reduce the economy’s reliance on US trade, and is pouring money into transport infrastructure to support this. However, a new study raises questions about the nation’s ability to boost maritime traffic. With little over

© Igor Gromov, dreamstime.com 27/05/2026 The China Container Industry Association (CCIA) expects manufacturing output to drop by as much as 30% this year, because of a rebalancing of supply and demand. Chinese manufacturers produce 95% of the world’s containers and, after record output in 2021, 2024, and 2025, downward pressure on prices is expected. Last

27/05/2026 If you listened to the calls of all the major actors in transport and logistics (T&L) during the earnings season that has just ended, you’d know that the Middle East crisis barely affected their financial performances during the first quarter (Q1 26). Booking platform Freightos (CRGO) is different. Mixed For one thing, it processed

27/05/2026 The first generation of digital freight forwarders once appeared to be converging on a single idea: combine software with logistics execution, automate the workflows, and gradually become the operating system for global trade.  Increasingly, however, the sector’s players are heading in very different directions.  For the UK’s Beacon, the answer was to step away from freight forwarding altogether. CEO Fraser Robinson recently told The Loadstar the company had concluded that