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

In its latest diversification move with the acquisition of 2 LR tankers. Transworld Group Dubai joins the liquid bulk trade with two Long...

Bahri business units to provide sustainable and efficient solutions to meet Luberef’s various logistics and transportation requirements...

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

Under the agreement, AD Ports Group will develop a dedicated quay wall and an assembly yard as well as provide the needed manpower and...

The UAE has signed up the Abu Dhabi unit of Italy's Eni to establish a marine logistics base at its Mugharraq Port near the country's...

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

DSV has opened a logistics headquarters for its Africa operations in Gauteng in South Africa. Located near OR Tambo International...

Maersk Kanoo Emirates, the provider of integrated logistics services for container transport, has signed an agreement with Jebel Ali Free...

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

Container lines are making oodles of money from their customers’ misery. If the profiteering label sticks, they risk a policy backlash in...

DB Schenker has said there are no current plans to sell the company as rumours of DSV Panalpina’s interest in the Deutsche Bahn-owned...

Jas Worldwide has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire Swedish-headquartered forwarder Greencarrier Freight Services...

Freight forwarding industry needs the government to intervene to help bring down overseas logistics rates which have escalated almost 10...

Recently, ocean freight has risen sharply. I chatted with some friends and mentioned that the port congestion in the United States is...

China has partly shuttered the world’s third-busiest port after a single worker tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday. The Meidong...

Congestion continues to rise at the US west coast container ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ahead of the peak season. According to an...

In a long-running theme since COVID-19 hit, logistics company earnings continue to outperform globally, and DSV Panalpina (OTCPK:DSDVY)...