The Maersk Pricing Pivot
During the worst of the container boom, Maersk did the opposite of every other carrier. While rivals pushed emergency surcharges and spot rates climbed toward record highs, the Danish line held its average freight rates…
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The Black Sea’s Quiet Stranglehold
The narrowest point of the Bosphorus is 700 metres wide. Seven football pitches, end to end. Every ship that enters or leaves the Black Sea must pass through that gap, past the skyline of Istanbul,…
The Drone on DHL’s Runway
At Leipzig/Halle Airport, the drone was not supposed to be there. It was found on the runway area, carrying explosives, at one of Europe’s busiest cargo airports. This is not a battlefield. This is the…
The AI Logistics Gold Rush
The phone on a mid-size carrier’s desk rings forty times a day, and forty times a day it is one of four questions. Where is my shipment? When will it arrive? Why is it late?…
The Last Mile Goes to Court
A drone the size of a breadbox lifted off from a Florida parking lot, carrying a bag of groceries over a suburban neighborhood. The video made the rounds on social media. At the same moment,…
From the Rhine to the Arctic: The New Geography of Supply Chain Risk
A container ship just sailed from South Korea to Rotterdam through the Arctic. On the same day, barge traffic on the Rhine River, Europe’s busiest inland waterway, ground to a near halt because there was…
Liners Refuse to Yield
The Numbers Say Stay Away. The Ships Say Otherwise. July 28, 2026. A 16,592 TEU container vessel named Ane Maersk enters the Red Sea from the Mediterranean. It calls at Jeddah. Then, instead of retreating…
Red Sea, Canal Droughts, and Sanctions: The Triple Squeeze on Global Shipping
In early July, a senior logistics manager at a Rotterdam-based freight forwarder opened her morning dashboard and found three red alerts. A Saudi tanker had been struck by a Houthi drone in the Red Sea….
Amazon Is Coming for Your Parcel
Amazon Is Coming for Your Parcel: Why FedEx and UPS Should Be Worried: Amazon is aggressively expanding its own delivery network to absorb the parcel volumes FedEx and UPS are shedding at a moment when fuel surcharges are hammering shippers.