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The world today isn’t simple and the challenges facing supply chains are complex. Those challenges need to be looked at from a different perspective, with human ingenuity, passion and experience, combined with our technology to create something more than the expected. By problem-solving in unexpected ways, we conceive new solutions to overcome challenges and realise opportunities.
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Metro CEO joins Lloyds Bank to examine the changing global trade outlook
Metro CEO Grant Liddell joined Lloyds Bank’s Markets Matter briefing to examine how geopolitical disruption, changing sourcing strategies and rising transport costs are reshaping global supply chains and why underlying trade remains surprisingly resilient. The Lloyds Bank’s Markets Matter series…
Asia–UK ocean market faces volatile October as capacity shifts
UK importers face an unusually volatile October as falling Asia–Europe freight rates collide with excess scheduled capacity, returning Suez services, short-notice blank sailings and continuing disruption across Asian ports. Ocean carriers are attempting to halt a 12-week decline in Asia–Europe…
India export surge puts pressure on inland networks
India’s export surge is tightening ocean capacity, creating equipment shortages and increasing pressure on the inland road and rail networks that supporting its container gateways. Premier carrier sailings from West India, including Nhava Sheva and Mundra, remained largely sold out…
Airfreight market strengthens as peak season nears
Global air cargo demand and rates are strengthening ahead of the traditional peak season, with rising volumes, firm pricing and higher fuel costs creating a more robust market as October begins. The latest TAC Index and WorldACD data point to…
Transpacific pressure shifts from ocean rates to inland costs
Transpacific shippers are entering October with ocean freight rates close to pandemic-era highs, continuing schedule disruption and a new cost pressure emerging after US diesel prices climbed sharply. The market may finally be approaching a turning point after five months…
Asian port congestion could disrupt supply chains well into 2027
Severe congestion across Asian container ports is tying up millions of TEU of capacity, driving schedule reliability to a four-year low and raising the prospect of disruption continuing well into 2027. Repeated typhoons, strong Asian export demand and congestion spreading…
Suez returns as Middle East shipping risks intensify
Container lines are restoring services through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, promising shorter Asia–Europe transits and more effective capacity. But the security picture around the Middle East’s critical shipping chokepoints is becoming more complicated, not less. More Asia–Europe services…
Asia air freight enters autumn with momentum intact
Air cargo’s traditional summer slowdown has failed to significantly loosen the market, with resilient demand, constrained capacity and renewed growth on key ex-Asia lanes keeping pressure on space and pricing as autumn begins. Global air cargo volumes were 6% higher…
Container trade stays strong as disruption reshapes east–west markets
Global container trade is proving remarkably resilient, but record volumes mask a more complicated picture across the major east–west trades. Congestion, blank sailings and inland constraints are increasingly determining the conditions shippers experience. July set a new monthly record for…
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