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Starboard bets AI can give smaller forwarders a fighting chance
19/06/2026 Freight forwarding has plenty of AI demos. The harder test is whether the technology can handle the daily mess of the quote desk: emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, carrier portals, agent replies and rates that change before anyone has time to clean the data. That is where Sumeet Trehan, founder of Starboard, believes the market is…
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Hormuz traffic rises as US-Iran MoU sparks cautious optimism
Photo: © Ginettigino | Dreamstime.com 18/06/2026 Forwarders may be short of confidence following confirmation that the US and Iran have signed a deal to end the war, but there have been green shoots of hope with ocean transits on the up. Both President Trump and President Masoud Pezeshkian confirmed that they had put pen to…
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Network restructuring cascading larger vessels onto Intra-Europe trades
ID 33174837 © Typhoonski | Dreamstime.com 18/06/2026 Container lines are increasingly deploying larger vessels on intra-Europe routes, with the number of ships above 8,000 teu operating in the Mediterranean rising by 78% year on year, according to Alphaliner. The analyst said the fleet of vessels above 8,000 teu trading in the region had increased from…