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Rotterdam’s Growing Oil Storage Fraud Problem Is Costing Traders Millions

The port of Rotterdam has seen, in recent years, increasingly sophisticated attempts by fraudsters to scam millions of dollars out of traders by paper fraud, offering non-existent oil storage at one of the world’s biggest oil hubs. The frauds, using fake documents and fraudulent websites, lure traders to pay for oil storage that simply doesn’t […]

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Hormuz ‘definitely shut’, landbridges under pressure – TIR to the rescue?

Photo: © Typhoonsk | Dreamstime.com 11/06/2026 With tentative hopes of a reopening of the Hormuz Strait dashed by the wave of air strikes Iran and the US traded last night, Gulf importers trying to get goods into their markets may have to turn to all-road routes and the TIR system, as Middle East landbridges struggle

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Geodis taps supply chain veteran Eric Gerbi to lead forwarding business

Eric Gerbi, Geodis 11/06/2026 Geodis has drafted in long-serving executive Eric Gerbi to head its Global Freight Forwarding division, handing the role to a finance chief who spent more than a decade helping build the group’s contract logistics and supply chain operations. Mr Gerbi joins the Geodis executive board as EVP of global freight forwarding

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US shippers warn revived China ship fees could ‘eliminate’ ag exports

11/06/2026 US agriculture exporters are gearing up for another fight over Washington’s plans for penalties on Chinese-built ships, warning the measures could add as much as $900 per container to transport costs and wipe out export sales across a swathe of commodities. The Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) sounded the alarm yesterday, after Senators Elizabeth Warren

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Deep-sea mining and the critical minerals paradox

Following the celebration of World Oceans Day, focus is increasing on deep-sea mining to deliver critical minerals for the green transition. How can this be balanced with protecting the oceans? This year’s World Ocean Day on 8 June was celebrated against a backdrop of accelerating interest in deep-sea mining. This progress is driving significant debate.

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Forwarders face margin squeeze as growth cools and disruption persists

Photo: © Vadym Medvediev | 11/06/2026 The global freight forwarding market is still growing, but the industry’s easy gains appear to be over as slowing trade growth, geopolitical disruption, and persistent overcapacity squeeze margins. According to Transport Intelligence’s latest Global Freight Forwarding Market Size & Forecast report, the market grew 4.4% in real terms in

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Importers race to beat the deadline for looming EU ecommerce fee

Photo: © Nitsuki 11/06/2026 The EU’s planned introduction of a €3 fee for low-value ecommerce shipments from 1 July is expected to create fresh volatility in Asia-Europe air cargo markets. Forwarders are warning of a pre-deadline surge in volumes and uncertainty over how quickly demand will normalise afterwards.  During a market update, Arno Hausch, head

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Humanoid robots in logistics – ‘huge opportunities’, but not in warehouses yet

Source: Unitree 11/06/2026 Since May, travellers through Tokyo’s Haneda Airport may have seen a new type of worker on the ramp: Japan Airlines (JAL) is running a trial using humanoid robots to handle freight and luggage. The experiment, slated to run until 2028, is using robots produced in China to load and unload containers and

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African demand + capacity = import explosion feeding container growth

ID 138855230 © Michael Turner | Dreamstime.co 11/06/2026 The key growth figures first. Look The Far East-Sub Saharan Africa container trade is clearly the most dynamic corridor covered by CTS currently, with last year’s box numbers up 26.5% on 2024 to hit 4.79m teu. (Click to expand the screen grabs below.) That growth has continued

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