LONDON, August 20, 2025 — Ships are still sailing, containers are still moving, but the patterns are broken. New trade tariffs imposed this summer have forced freight companies to redraw their maps almost overnight. In the U.S., cargo that used to head straight to Los Angeles is now landing in Mexico...
DUBAI, August 20, 2025 — Cranes keep swinging, ships keep docking, and the numbers show it. DP World has posted a 20 percent surge in revenue for the first six months of 2025, taking the port operator’s income to more than $11.2 billion. Executives point to steady growth in container volumes,...
BONN, August 20, 2025 — When a typhoon ripped across the Philippines in 2005, the first planes to land were filled with aid. What most people didn’t see were the yellow-vested DHL volunteers clearing cargo bottlenecks at the airport, working shoulder to shoulder with the military to get supplies moving....
DUBAI, August 20, 2025 — The doors slid open this week on a 10,000-square-meter warehouse in Jebel Ali. Inside, robots hum along the aisles, and workers in red vests sort packages bound for Riyadh, Cairo, and beyond. This is JD.com’s latest play to grab a bigger share of the Middle...
Lagos, Aug. 15, 2025 — Light’s barely up, but the yard’s already alive. New trucks, paint still smelling fresh, sit in a neat line. Not diesel — compressed natural gas. Four thousand of them, ready to move. Engines murmur instead of growl. Drivers check mirrors, tap the glass over their fuel...
Odessa, Aug. 15, 2025 — Dawn barely touches the cranes when the crew starts moving. Deck plates are slick, ropes coiled in heaps near the rail. The ship’s name is half-hidden under salt spray, but the hold is full — wheat bound for Egypt. A deal signed last week opened this...
Dubai, Aug. 15, 2025 — Warm air even before sunrise. The ramp lights cut narrow cones across the tarmac. A freighter rolls to a standstill and the ground crew is already moving—hands up, palms flat, a small choreography under the engines’ fading whine. Reefer pallets first. You can smell the cold...
ABU DHABI, August 15, 2025 — Freight volumes through Abu Dhabi’s airports have hit a new high, with 344,795 tonnes moved in the first half of the year. It’s not just a number—it’s a sign of where trade winds are blowing in the Middle East and beyond. The growth didn’t happen...
Nairobi, Aug. 15, 2025 — Cold air rolls out when the doors lift. The kind that smells faintly of damp cardboard and cut stems. Workers pull on gloves, move fast — crates of roses, boxes of beans. This morning the space feels bigger. It is. Storage doubled this week. No ribbon-cutting,...
Chicago, Aug. 14, 2025 — The factory floor is loud with the metallic clatter of conveyor belts, but upstairs in the control room, it’s the screens that demand attention. Three of them, lined up in a row. On the first, tariff rates flash in and out of red like warning...
