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After CountEmissionsEU: What the IMO Shipping Carbon Price Vote Means for Multimodal Freight Buyers
On a Thursday afternoon in early October, a procurement manager at an industrial components maker near Lyon is closing next year’s freight budget. The ocean leg from Asia carries a base rate, a fuel surcharge and an emissions line linked to European carbon rules. Her finance director has one question:
Inside a Freight Control Tower: How Time Critical Shipments Are Managed from Booking to Delivery
At 10:15 on a Tuesday morning, a production planner learns that a critical component will not arrive on the truck booked for the afternoon. The vehicle is held up, the delivery window has not moved, and the line is still scheduled to run at six. The problem is no longer
Air Freight in the Pharma Cold Chain: What Premium Logistics Really Guarantees
A biologic shipment lands, rolls off the aircraft, and waits. Forty minutes on an open tarmac while ground handlers clear a queue of other cargo, the temperature display on its active container ticking past the 8°C ceiling nobody in the chain is watching in real time. By the time the
Schengen’s 90 Day Rule: What the Balkan Trucker Protests Mean for European Freight
Schengen 90 Day Rule Explained: Trucker Protests 2026 On the morning of 31 August 2026, drivers parked more than twenty trucks outside the European Union Delegation in Skopje. The same scene played out in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Podgorica, where hauliers gathered between midday and two in the afternoon under one
Q4 Air Freight Capacity: What Rising Fuel Costs and Tight Belly Space Mean for Shippers
In the last week of August, a freight forwarder in Frankfurt watched a quote for wide body space to Chicago change twice in five days. The first increase came from a fuel surcharge adjustment. The second came because the flight had simply sold out of pallet positions. Six weeks before
Scope 3 Freight Emissions: What CountEmissionsEU Changes for Shippers
For most industrial companies, the largest share of their carbon footprint never passes through their own gates. It travels in trucks, aircraft and ships operated by others, and until very recently there was no common rule for counting it. That changed on June 1, 2026, when the European Union put
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