The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adjourned the extraordinary session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) on Oct. 17 to consider the adoption of draft amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, including the IMO Net-Zero Framework.
The extraordinary session, which convened Oct. 14, will be reconvened in 12 months’ time. In the interim, Member states will continue to work towards consensus on the IMO Net Zero Framework.
The Net Zero Framework, or NZF, ...
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Global logistics provider GEODIS said Oct. 20 that it has launched a Labor Management System (LMS) within its Americas network to bring real-time visibility into workforce effectiveness and cost to serve.
Collaborating with Easy Metrics, the cloud-based warehouse performance management platform, GEODIS has begun implementing the LMS at 90 of its ...
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DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of DHL Group, has launched DHL Consolidated Clearance Service for U.S. Imports, a new customs solution tailored to e-commerce and retail businesses.
As U.S. tariff policies evolve and regulatory demands intensify, importers – particularly in fast-moving consumer sectors – face rising costs, ...
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C.H. Robinson harkened the arrival of its Agentic Supply Chain: an intelligent ecosystem that continuously thinks, learns, adapts and acts.
The Eden Prairie, Minnesota logistics provider said it is the most advanced form of artificial intelligence in logistics. It understands context, makes decisions in real time and self-optimizes global supply chains ...
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Container ship owners and operators are extending a pattern of low recycling activity since 2021, as BIMCO estimates a recycling overhang of at least 500 vessels and 1.8 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUS.
“So far this year, only 10 container ships have been recycled, said Niels Rasmussen, chief shipping analyst ...
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BIMCO, the Danish shipping association, has begun development of a clause specifically addressing the new fees introduced on Oct. 14 for U.S.-related ships calling at ports in China.
The Chinese Ministry of Transport said Oct. 10 that it would impose new “Special Port Fees” on ships arriving at Chinese ports if ...
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U.S. trucking activity decreased to its lowest level in three months September, pushing the level down to the lowest in three months, according to the American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index.
Truck freight tonnage declined 0.9 percent after gaining 0.9 percent in August and 1.1 percent in ...
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By Rebeca Grynspan
Following is the foreword for the Review of Maritime Transport 2025, written by Grynspan, secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Not since the Suez Canal’s closure in 1967 has the industry witnessed such sustained disruption to the arteries of global commerce. Ships that ...
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The growing market in medical aesthetic products moving from South Korea to China is proving lucrative to the U-Freight Group.
One year after the company signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Hongyu Supply Chain Management Co (HYSC) to develop logistics services for medical and healthcare manufacturing and shipping moving products ...
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By Chris Ugarte
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case that could settle conflicting court interpretations of who can be held liable in roadway-accident lawsuits against the transportation industry.
In Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II LLC, the plaintiff was injured along a highway when a Caribe tractor-trailer veered ...
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