Expansion into North American market

DHL signs ten-billion-dollar last-mile deal with USPS

DHL eCommerce has signed a multi-year exclusive contract with the United States Postal Service (USPS) for last-mile parcel delivery across the US, with a value of more than ten billion US dollars — the largest agreement in the two companies' 25-year…

Traffic jams on Brenner Pass

Night freight proposal targets Tyrol bottlenecks

Dettendorfer has teamed up with truckmaker MAN and companies across industry, energy, retail and logistics to try to relieve congestion on the Brenner corridor. The initiative, dubbed “Green Brenner”, aims to shift part of the traffic into the night…

Q1 figures compared

European carriers bear the brunt of a bruising first quarter

The first quarter of 2026 exposed a sharp divide in container shipping, with European carriers posting the weakest results among the industry's major players while Asian lines continued to benefit from resilient intra-Asian trade. Maersk recorded the…

Geopolitics ans supply chains

Aden ranked world's riskiest port in new global safety index

The Port of Aden in Yemen has been rated the world's riskiest hub in a new port safety ranking launched by analytics firm Narrows. Ports in Central America — including Cuba and Nicaragua — and parts of the Middle East also feature at the lower end of…

Chinese surplus

Asian export surge floods western trade lanes

Container export volumes from Asia have surged across all major western trade lanes, according to tracking provider Vizion. Weekly volumes on the transpacific route to the United States climbed 51.7 per cent within a fortnight to 175,000 TEU. Volumes…

Shift of balance

Freight forwarding finds calmer waters, but Europe is falling behind

The global market for international transportation management is forecast to grow 5.5 per cent this year to 347.1 billion US dollars, according to a new analysis by US consultancy Armstrong & Associates. Growth is expected to moderate to 4.2 per cent…

Annual Report

Qatar Cargo hit by Middle East conflict as volumes slide

The carrier reported weaker results in the year to March 2026, with tonnage falling 6.6 per cent to approximately 1.4 million tonnes and revenue declining 9.6 per cent to just under 4.5 billion US dollars. The annual report makes explicit reference…

Change of leadership at Businesseurope

Polish employer chief tapped to lead European industry lobby

Maciej Witucki has been elected president of BusinessEurope, the European industry association, succeeding Sweden's Fredrik Persson with effect from 1 July. The council of presidents voted unanimously at a meeting in Dublin. Witucki's term runs for…

Workplace automatisation

Robots fill the labour gap — but logistics jobs keep growing

Robotics and digital systems are being rolled out rapidly across logistics operations worldwide, yet employment in the sector is proving resilient, a spokesperson from DHL's supply chain division told DVZ International. As deployment broadens and…

Rail maintenance

Switzerland counts the cost of Germany's endless rail works

Construction works and reliability failures on Germany's rail network are eroding the competitiveness of the alpine transit corridor, with rail's market share in Swiss transalpine freight falling from 74 per cent in 2022 to 69 per cent, according to…

Professional driver qualification

Germany eases rules to attract more foreign lorry drivers

Germany's federal cabinet has approved a package of regulatory changes aimed at easing the country's severe shortage of professional lorry drivers by lowering barriers for candidates from abroad. The accelerated basic qualification examination may…

Restructuring

DSV to slash European road freight network after Schenker deal

Danish logistics group DSV plans to cut the number of depots and consolidation hubs in its European less-than-truckload network by more than a quarter, from 400 at the time of the Schenker acquisition in early May 2025 to 280 by year-end. Helmut…

Costs

German logistics firms lift prices amid geopolitical tensions

Nearly four in five German transport and logistics companies have raised prices or introduced surcharges in recent months, citing higher energy, insurance and transport costs alongside longer and more uncertain supply routes. The figure comes from a…

Management

Fraport board member Pierre Dominique Prümm is leaving the company

Pierre Dominique Prümm will leave Fraport on 30 June 2026, the Frankfurt airport operator announced. The departure comes shortly after a board restructuring. On 1 May, Fraport appointed Dietmar Focke to the board. The former head of Lufthansa…

Due diligence

Freight forwarders put on notice over carrier liability

European logistics companies offering door-to-door services to the United States could find themselves liable for accidents caused by carriers they hire. A US Supreme Court ruling has now made that risk impossible to ignore, allowing a negligence…