Rades, Tunisia — September 9, 2025 At Rades, the country’s busiest container port, the scene has become alarming. Yard space is overflowing. Containers pile up, some left waiting for almost three weeks, and vessels struggle to unload. Port officials now admit that more than 11,000 containers remain stuck inside the terminal. “It’s...
Beijing, China — September 9, 2025 It came quietly, but the numbers tell a warning story. In August, Chinese exports to Russia tumbled — the sharpest drop since March. Factories are slowing, shipments sit longer in ports, and the rumble of unease is growing. “I’ve seen demand dry up,” sighed a Shanghai-based...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 MEXICO CITY — September 4, 2025. The news broke quietly last night, but its impact is already echoing across the freight community. Radiant Logistics has picked up a majority stake — 80% — in Weport, a forwarder well known along the U.S.–Mexico border for...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 RIYADH — September 4, 2025. Freight forwarders across the Gulf woke up today with a new option on their radar. FedEx has cut the ribbon on a regional hub in Riyadh, a project valued at $1.5 billion, supported by Boeing 777 freighters flying six...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 LAREDO — September 4, 2025. Long queues of trucks stretched for kilometers outside the Laredo crossing early this morning, as cross-border freight surged in the run-up to Mexico’s Independence Day celebrations. For forwarders and shippers, the bottlenecks are hitting just as demand for automotive...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 4, 2025 HONG KONG — September 4, 2025. The emails started landing late Tuesday night. By dawn on Wednesday, forwarders from Shenzhen to Hamburg were already forwarding the same subject lines to their teams: “blank sailing,” “rotation removed,” “schedule change.” Golden Week doesn’t begin until next week,...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 AUSTIN, TEXAS — September 2, 2025. The new McLane tech hub doesn’t look like a traditional logistics site. No trucks outside, no pallets waiting for pickup. Instead, you walk into an open space filled with long tables, laptops, and walls covered in freight maps...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 BONN — September 2, 2025. In the glass headquarters of DHL Supply Chain, executives gathered around a polished oak table to announce a change that could ripple far beyond boardrooms: the appointment of Andries Retief as the company’s new Chief Development Officer. The move...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 NEW YORK — September 2, 2025. At dawn, conveyor belts at JFK’s parcel hub rattled back to life, but the backlog was already there — pallets of delayed parcels stacked three rows deep, stretching toward the loading bays. The long holiday pause had turned...
By Maria Kalamatas — September 2, 2025 SINGAPORE — September 2, 2025. The future of warehousing doesn’t smell of diesel or cardboard. It hums with servers, glows with dashboard screens, and is run by algorithms that never sleep. A new forecast released this week shows the global AI-in-warehousing market climbing from...
