March 2026
Shipping lines are rushing to divert vessels away from the Middle East following US strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks on neighbouring countries.
Following reported attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and a warning by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps that the waterway is unsafe, major container carriers including Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and CMA CGM have halted services there and diverting vessels away from the waterway and region, ...
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Airfreight platform Cargo.one has acquired ocean rate specialist Cargofive and will launch what it says is the industry's first AI-native operating system for multimodal freight.
The platform will unify air and ocean freight data into a single foundation, with autonomous AI agents handling repetitive tasks, alongside human workers.
The move is being ...
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