Hapag-Lloyd has opened a new office in Cotonou, expanding its presence in West Africa and strengthening direct customer engagement in the Benin market.
The move reflects the growing importance of Benin as a regional trade hub, with the Port of Cotonou serving as a gateway to inland markets including Niger and Burkina Faso.
Hapag-Lloyd has previously served the market through its regional network. The new office is expected to improve responsiveness and ...
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When an Arkansas museum approached GEODIS in late 2025 about transporting pieces of the Berlin Wall to the United States, the assignment quickly evolved into a carefully orchestrated multimodal project involving ocean shipping, rail transportation, trucking and extensive engineering coordination.
Over the following several months, the logistics provider developed and executed ...
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Three major ocean carriers’ latest results point to a market that is no longer being lifted by pandemic-era pricing, even as geopolitical disruption continues to complicate network planning, costs and customer service.
A.P. Moller-Maersk, Ocean Network Express and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, or “K” Line, each reported weaker profitability, but the details ...
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Container shipping and logistics trends across Latin America are becoming increasingly shaped by supply chain digitalization, infrastructure investment and mounting geopolitical uncertainty, according to Maersk’s latest regional market assessment.
In its May Latin America market outlook, Danish shipping and logistics group A.P. Moller - Maersk said companies operating in the region ...
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U.S. energy production reached another all-time high in 2025, driven by continued growth in natural gas, crude oil and renewable energy output, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Total U.S. energy production climbed 3.4 percent year over year to 107 quadrillion British thermal units, marking the fourth ...
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Hong Kong-based maritime energy and transport companies are deepening efforts to electrify inland shipping operations across the Pearl River Delta and Greater Bay Area, underscoring the region’s growing push toward lower-emission marine transport infrastructure.
Wah Kwong NatPower Holdings and Chu Kong Shipping Enterprises (CKS) signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate ...
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Awery Aviation Software has won the International Air Transport Association ONE Record Hackathon for the fifth time, developing a real-time cargo monitoring solution during the 48-hour event in Hong Kong.
The winning platform, called Voyager, was designed to integrate with the ONE Record API and provide real-time visibility into shipment milestones ...
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By James Wee
(From FBJNA's May Issue) Every fleet operation generates a massive volume of execution data every day: GPS pings, delivery timestamps, service durations, route deviations and more. This data holds significant potential to improve route planning and operational performance. In most organizations, however, much of it goes unused.
The data ...
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The Sustainable Shipping Initiative has released what it describes as the shipping industry’s first integrated mapping of crew welfare, well being and safety data, warning that fragmented reporting and inconsistent standards are undermining efforts to manage human risk at sea.
The project, funded by the Lloyd's Register Foundation, examined welfare and ...
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MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. said ownership of the business was transferred in the fourth quarter of 2025 from founder Gianluigi Aponte to his children, Diego and Alexa Aponte, marking a generational transition at the world’s largest container carrier.
Diego Aponte, group president, and Alexa Aponte, group chief financial officer, will assume ...
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