For the second time in three years Noatum Logistics has won the Air Cargo Services category, at the British International Freight Association’s (BIFA) Freight Service Awards. With over 1,600 trading members, BIFA represents and promotes the freight forwarding sector and their annual Freight Service awards…
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Last Sunday, the 22nd January, marked the start of the Lunar New Year holidays, with factories and most other parts of Chinese society closing down for at least a week and typically two, causing a pause in exports leaving the country, which traditionally prompts container…
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All importers are required to comply with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which came into effect on the 21st June 2022, with the requirement to submit China postal codes, to prove that goods have not come from the Uyghur region, mandatory from the 18th…
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Ocean container rates were particularly high during 2022, but towards the latter half of the year started to fall, as the market experience a significant oversupply of capacity, while airfreight volumes dipped for a ninth consecutive month in December. (more…)
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It is inevitable that we will see some supply-chain disruption this year, but it likely to be far less than the global turmoil experienced over the last two years, as consumer demand is likely to be muted through the first half of the year, at…
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Having seen record queues of over 100 vessels disappear entirely and long dwell containers fall by 92% over the last 14 months, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are going to scrap a container dwell fee programme that has never been implemented. (more…)
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As capacity tightens ahead of Chinese New Year, we expect the normal slack period of freight demand after the holiday, which falls on the 22nd January, to last until May, which means that the risk of even more blanked sailings may increase after the holidays.…
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The deadline for importers to enrol in the CDS was extended in October and now HMRC has extended the deadline for exporters to move across to the UK’s new digital customs platform from April to November 2023. (more…)
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The air freight market benefited from massive modal-shift volumes over the last two years, as ocean carriers struggled to maintain schedule integrity in the face of endemic disruption, but those shippers are moving back to ocean as congestion eases and reliability improves. With two good…
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