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Logistics Briefing offers up-to-date news and in-depth analysis of significant happenings in the logistics sector. Our briefings are crafted by analysts with extensive industry experience, delivering insights that you won't find anywhere else. Each briefing provides a thorough examination of current events in logistics, express services, forwarding, and road transportation. We contextualize industry events, offering not just the news but also interpretations, background information, and data sourced from Ti's comprehensive knowledge base.

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‘Trade openness’ spells trouble for Middle East supply chains

1 week ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

One of the biggest threats facing the world’s economy is the resurgence of inflation, due, not least, to the imposition of President Trump’s tariffs and the potential for a global trade war. This could have profound implications for the economies in the Middle East due to the trade measures’ impact on international flows of goods as well as their effect on domestic demand.
Transpac demand surge, but rates remain muted

1 week ago | ti-insight.com | Gavin van Marle

Container spot freight rates on the transpacific continued to trend upwards this week, albeit at a far gentler pace than last week’s GRI-induced double-digit growth, as carriers rushed to return capacity in anticipation of at least a short-term demand bounce. There are only rough estimates as to how much ready-to-load cargo has built up in China, waiting to ship to the US, since President Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariff announcement.
Evri gets 'Premium' boost from merger with DHL

3 weeks ago | ti-insight.com | Alex Lennane

UK customers of courier Evri are breathing a sigh of relief today, following the news that DHL’s UK ecommerce division will merge with the poorly rated company. DHL will take a “significant minority stake” in Evri, which according to analysis by Loadstar Premium, “serves the interests of buyer and seller alike”.
‘No country wants to be flattened’ as globalisation rejected

1 month ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

In a recent address to the Seafocus International Leadership in Maritime & Logistics Conference in Helsinki, Finland, Ti Insight’s CEO, Professor John Manners-Bell, talked about the challenges faced by the global supply chain industry, not least the tariffs introduced on imports to the USA by President Trump. He opened his remarks by saying that whilst the industry had been thrown into crisis by recent events, the problems had been decades in the making.
US Customs chaos means "more downside risk" for air cargo

1 month ago | ti-insight.com | Alex Lennane

Air cargo growth rate forecasts have been slashed, owing to the weaker economic outlook and the impact of tariffs and de minimis ban. As the 2 May deadline for the end of the de minimis exemption for China approaches, the outlook is bleak. In January, Trade Data Service’s forecast was for growth of between 3.5% and 7.4% in air cargo; that has been cut to between –0.1% and 0.7%.
FedEx and UPS add 'China fee' ahead of the end of de minimis

1 month ago | ti-insight.com | Ian Putzger

In the final weeks before US de minimis exemption for parcels from China ends, UPS and FedEx have implemented an extra charge for this traffic. And recent action by Amazon points to a different future pace for ecommerce. UPS was the first out of the starting blocks with a surcharge of $0.29 per pound on all US-bound parcels from China, Hong Kong, and Macau from 13 April. The integrator’s ‘surge fee’ is applied on the billable weight of a shipment and is subject to its fuel surcharge.
Trump’s tariffs usher in a new supply chain era

2 months ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

The shock which has convulsed global financial markets, the media, politicians and the business community would suggest that President Trump’s tariffs came, as the saying goes, like a bolt from the blue. In fact, the crisis has been decades in the making and can be traced back through the Great Recession of 2008 to China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation – and even beyond.
Trump’s plans throws global trading system into chaos

2 months ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

An attempt to re-build the global trading system was always going to result in unprecedented levels of disruption. Unravelling decades of deeply integrated global supply chains cannot be accomplished overnight, but that is exactly what President Trump is trying to achieve. On April 2, he announced his plans for the additional tariffs which will be imposed on imports to the USA sending shockwaves through global stock markets and prompting an outcry from foreign politicians.
Unpacking the consequences of ‘Liberation Day’

2 months ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

Today is so-called ‘Liberation Day’, when President Trump looks set to impose 25% tariffs on imports from a range of countries. In response, some commentators have predicted an economic catastrophe, whilst others believe that tariffs will create nothing more than economic headwinds. In this article I try to differentiate between those countries and sectors most at risk and those which will be less affected.
Tighter EU import requirements proving 'a challenge' for forwarders

2 months ago | ti-insight.com | Charlotte Goldstone

“Stricter Customs regulations” from the EU’s ICS2 will see “stricter enforcement”, Hapag-Lloyd has warned, and European forwarders “have encountered significant challenges”. From tomorrow, 1 April, the EU is ramping-up its Import Control System 2 (ICS2) – an advance cargo information system designed to improve supply chain security – on requirements for all non-EU imports.