February 2026

Partners offer proactive freight info

Shipping information firm Fluent Cargo has partnered with ocean freight risk intelligence platform Sea Sentinel AI to provide live information to shippers, forwarders, and visibility providers. Sea Sentinel processes around 500,000 news articles daily, alongside data from more than 12 national weather services, AIS vessel tracking, government sources, and social media to identify risks affecting ocean freight. Unlike traditional visibility tools that only track vessel locations and calculate ETAs based on ... [+]

Qargo adds electronic consignment notes

Logistics tech specialist TransFollow is to integrate its electronic consignment note (eCMR) into Qargo’s transport management system. It allows shippers and transport operators to create, issue, and sign eCMRs within a single platform, removing manual document handovers and the need to switch between systems. [+]

Fire halts Channel Islands ferry

A fire has broken out on a DFDS freight ro ro vessel operating between Portsmouth and Jersey. The blaze on the Caesarea Trader was reported at 15.45 on Monday 9 February when the vessel was off the Isle of Wight. The vessel is due to be towed to Portsmouth for ... [+]

Belfast trade heads for record

Trade through Belfast Harbour pushed up towards record levels in 2025, with across the board increases in goods transported by all shipping modes. In its annual trade figures published on 10 February, Belfast Harbour reported 24.3 million tonnes of goods passing through the Trust Port in 2025, up from 24.1 million ... [+]

Kuehne+Nagel signs deal for more Frankfurt space

Kuehne+Nagel has signed a lease agreement with Fraport AG for a new 7,600sq m air cargo facility in CargoCity South at Frankfurt Airport. Completion and handover are set for the end of 2028. The layout features 16 gates and truck docks and has been awarded a German Sustainable Building Council gold ... [+]

Freight ‘lacks protection’ in new plan for rail, says CILT

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport has warned that around 30% of Britain’s rail services, including freight, risk being left without clear protections or long-term certainty unless the legislation is strengthened. In its submission to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee, CILT supported the creation of Great British Railways ... [+]

On the move by land and sea in UAE

Deugro and Dteq Transport Engineering Solutions have moved six deaerator vessels from Ras Al Khaimah to Mirfa, Abu Dhabi for the Wave C1 Project using multimodal transportation. Each vessel weighed 158 tonnes and measured 36.6 x 6.4 x 7.0 meters.   Deugro collected the units from the supplier’s facility in Ras Al ... [+]

Shipping reliability suffers in 2025

There was a sharp deterioration in shipping schedule reliability in 2025, according to the latest data from the Beacon online platform. New analysis of 27,613 ocean freight shipments in 2024 and 2025 showed that arrivals within 12 hours of the estimated time of arrival fell year-on-year from 36% to 13.9%. ... [+]

BIFA adds Bitesize training courses

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has added five new modules to its Bitesize eLearning programme. The new modules cover ATA Carnets, Representation, Rules of Origin, Sustainability, and Valuation. The existing Classification module has been fully updated for 2026. All modules can be taken individually, alongside the mandatory CDS Compliance ... [+]

Plane cockpit heads for a new life in New Zealand with B&H

Aerospace logistics specialist B&H Worldwide has completed a complex transportation of a decommissioned Airbus A330 cockpit from the UK to New Zealand. The intricate move, managed in collaboration with Christchurch-based Pacific involved a comprehensive, end-to-end logistics operation, designed by B&H Worldwide to meet the customer’s specific requirements. The cockpit, which will ... [+]

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