Governments across the GCC deployed an estimated USD 110 billion in investment expenditure in 2024, with significant allocations directed toward infrastructure, special economic zones and logistics-linked connectivity. The UAE and Saudi Arabia have emerged as the region’s primary engines of transport and trade transformation, with combined logistics investments exceeding USD 110 billion and accelerating demand for project cargo and heavy-lift logistics. These dynamics will be

Global freight giant JAS Worldwide has signed a Share Purchase Agreement to acquire UK-based Pentagon Freight Services, a long-established leader in freight forwarding, project logistics, and ships agency services. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, is expected to close in the latter half of 2025. With this move, JAS Worldwide aims to significantly deepen its footprint in key sectors like oil and gas, energy, marine, and construction. Pentagon Freight Services, fou

Shippers and forwarders have faced challenges moving project cargo over the past year. For shipments that fit in containers, they have...

Pandemic-related furloughs have caused the skill pool to shrink further, bringing into sharp focus the need to ensure future industry...

The breakbulk industry has not always been the quickest to embrace the shift from manual to digital. Mohammed Jaber, COO at DSV Abu Dhabi...

Rafic Mecattaf, CEO of DSV Middle East & North Africa, took time to sit down with Breakbulk’s Leslie Meredith on the first day of...

How does the shortage in vessel space for containers effect the transport of breakbulk cargoes and project cargo? Do you opt for a liner...

Janardan Dalmia, founder and chief executive of Trukkin, said the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are three potential growth markets for...

Randy Giveans, head of the energy maritime shipping equity research group at Jefferies, discusses the main factors behind the spike in...

King Abdullah Port has announced details of its exceptional performance during the first half of 2021. The port handled a total of...

Contractor’s results buffeted by Covid-19 and issues at North Sea wind project Saipem reported on Friday second quarter earnings that...

Russian freighter operator Volga-Dnepr Airlines, in partnership with logistics provider Geodis, has transported a large custom-built...

Petrofac will use Landmark Digital Well Program® to deliver safe, cost effective and productive wells Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL)...

Oilfield service firm Petrofac has secured a new three-year contract with ONEgas, an integrated cross-border asset between Shell UK and...

Aramco has started bunkering operations at the King Fahad Industrial Port at the Red Sea coast with the Saudi Energy Ministry, as well as...

The development when completed, will have the capacity to process approximately 230,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Mammoet, a global...

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has awarded a $510m contract to Saipem to upgrade the Shah Gas plant in the UAE. The engineering,...

Saipem wins contract to expand capacity by 13% to 1.45 bcf/d Expansion project expected to be completed by 2023 ADNOC is working to reach...

Petrofac's Chief Financial Officer Alastair Cochran has informed the Board of Directors of his intention to resign and take up a new job...