For the first time, China had a larger trade surplus with Europe than with the US over the period of the last 12 months, posing serious questions over the future of European industry.
Suez Canal return beckons for ocean shipping lines, and with it, significant challenges.
Dubai-based DP World has in just over a decade transformed the site of a former oil refinery into the UK’s fastest-growing deep-sea container terminal, located on the River Thames less than 30 miles from central London.
Comments by the US ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, have led to a fresh spat with China over the control of major ports.
The twists and turns in the Trump administration’s trade policy and the saga of tariffs on and tariffs off, has created a climate of uncertainty in the global economy throughout 2025.
China’s trade surplus with Europe has overtaken its surplus with the U.S. for the first time, exposing European industry to mounting competitive pressure from an increasingly dominant Chinese manufacturing and export powerhouse.
No plans to merge DHL Forwarding and Supply Chain units but greater collaboration in the cards...
The twists and turns in the Trump administration’s trade policy and the saga of tariffs on and tariffs off have created a climate of uncertainty in the global economy throughout 2025, exacerbating what was already a period of low growth, and in some cases, one of stagnation.
The CEOs of Lufthansa and Air France-KLM argue that the EU’s open skies policy gives Gulf and other non-European carriers an uneven advantage, undermining European airlines, employment, and long-term competitiveness.
Rico Luman, Senior Sector Economist, at Dutch bank ING specializing in transport, logistics and the automotive industry in a Q&A with American Journal of Transportation, expects the impacts from the US tariffs hasn’t yet been felt. But he expects over the coming months and beyond, the impacts of US tariffs and trade policies will begin to show.
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