The Yara Birkeland will be the world’s first fully electric and autonomous container ship, with zero emissions. Unmanned voyages are planned for 2020. “This is happening. It’s not if, it’s when. The technologies needed to make remote and autonomous ships a reality exist.” So said Oskar Levander, vice president of innovation for Rolls Royce, at...
Every five days a logistics startup is born. Or at least so it seems given the numbers. In a recent study, we identified more than 400 of these disruptors worldwide that have sprung up particularly over the last couple of years working on every aspect of logistics – from freight forwarding, brokerage, and long-distance transportation,...
PILOTS are taught that a too-hard landing is better than a too-soft one. A plane can absorb more shocks than one might think, but a runway is only so long. When it comes to Brexit, airlines think the opposite it is true. As the deadline for Britain’s secession from the European Union approaches, the spectre...
Air freight expectations have taken the Ti Logistics Confidence Index higher in June, but growth has been tempered by results in sea freight. According to World ACD’s latest note, growing cross-border e-commerce demand is one reason why air freight growth is on the up, though interestingly, it appears not have stimulated large increases in express air cargo. It is...
Stockland has secured a major blue chip tenant for part of its 11-hectare industrial business park in Warwick Farm, with the remainder of the property set to be speculatively developed to meet leasing demand for opportunities in close proximity to the M5 and M7 orbital. Daikin Australia has signed a 10 year lease 33,278sqm of Gross...