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Daily Cargo News (DCN) is a monthly Australian shipping, trade, transport and logistics focused magazine, published by Daily Cargo News Pty Ltd. First published in 1891 as Daily Commercial News , Daily Cargo News is Australia's longest running national newspaper.
The challenges facing the shipping industry this year will be remarkably similar to those of 2019, with the U.S.-China trade war, Brexit and IMO 2020 continuing to have major impacts, according to ...
The FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations is a non-governmental organisation representing freight forwarders worldwide. According to the FIATA Annual Report 2021, FIATA counted 109 Associations Members representing the freight forwarding industry within a territory and 5959 Individual members, representing freight forwarding and logistics companies.
The British International Freight Association, also known as BIFA, is the prime United Kingdom trade association representing UK freight forwarders. [3] These are companies that forward goods internationally on behalf of importers and exporters. [4] It is a not-for-profit organisation owned by its members and managed by a small Secretariat.
In 2022, Flexport "raised $935 million in a Series E funding round that values the freight forwarding company at $8 billion". It has raised $2.3 billion since its inception. [12] In June 2022, Flexport announced that Amazon worldwide consumer chief Dave Clark would be joining Flexport as its new CEO. [13]
The Freightos International Freight Index was first launched as a weekly freight index in early 2017. [7] The Freightos Baltic Index has been in wide use since 2018. [8] It is currently the only freight rate index that is issued daily, and is also the only IOSCO-compliant freight index that is currently regulated by the EU (in particular, the European Securities and Markets Authority).
Modern freight forwarders offer an end-to-end process i.e. shipping the goods from the place of origin to the final destination and may offer additional services such as warehouse planning, cargo insurance and customs brokerage. Together with tracking, freight forwarding agents often have real time information on the freight.
It acquired C.S. Greene International in 1992 to add international freight forwarding, air freight operations, and refrigerated containers. [ citation needed ] In 1993, C.H. Robinson bought a 30% stake in Transeco, a major French motor carrier, and eventually bought the entire company. [ 20 ]