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• The Bionic Business Report: 2025 challenges for UK transport & logistics SMEs, and what’s next in 2025?
  Running a small business in 2024 wasn’t easy. Rising costs, hiring struggles, and a squeeze on consumer spending made it a tough year for business owners across the UK.From price hikes to cutting costs wherever possible, some small business owners even dipped into their own savings just to stay afloat. But what does 2025 have […]
  Logistics & Handling
• Saudia Cargo, and Worldwide Flight Services launch landmark ONE Record integration with CHAMP, accelerating digital transformation in air cargo
  Worldwide Flight Services and Saudia Cargo have launched a significant ONE Record integration, marking a pivotal advancement in the air cargo industry's move towards IATA's ONE Record initiative.
  Logistics & Handling
• Amazon’s ‘Buy for me’ button is set to revolutionise shopping and it’s likely to come to the UK, says Parcelhero
  Amazon could transform the retail landscape once again with its new ‘Buy for me’ button on its shopping app. Currently, the feature is only available as a small-scale beta trial in the USA.
  Logistics & Handling
• Retailers face £464 million loss due to lost parcels
  New data from Metapack reveals that UK and European retailers suffered an estimated £464 million in lost parcel revenue during the peak shopping season (September – December).
  Logistics & Handling
• Kontron Transportation has been awarded a GSM-R project in Spain valued at over 20 million EUR
  Kontron Transportation Spain has been selected by ADIF to implement GSM-R coverage in the Medina del Campo – Orense conventional line.
  Logistics & Handling
• Nikolay Pargov appointed to lead the Girteka Logistics Business
  Nikolay Pargov has been appointed CEO of Girteka logistics business (currently named Girteka Europe West UAB).
  Logistics & Handling

Latest Maritime News

• Contships pushes ahead with fleet renewal April 23, 2025
  Secondhand strategy accords with reality of high newbuilding prices for feeders unjustified by current charter rates, according to Clarksons Securities...      Related StoriesWhat happens next in the Baltimore bridge case?IMO carbon price not a done deal industry warnedTankers cheaper to insure than a year ago but bulker premiums rise fractionally 
  Nigel Lowry
• What happens next in the Baltimore bridge case? April 23, 2025
  Lloyd’s List law and marine insurance editor David Osler examines the next steps in the maritime casualty of the decade      Related StoriesIMO carbon price not a done deal industry warnedTankers cheaper to insure than a year ago but bulker premiums rise fractionallyUSTR port fees: Dry bulk gets reprieve, for now 
  Lloyd’s List
• Revised US port fee plan leaves important questions unanswered, lawyers argue April 23, 2025
  Watson Farley & Williams team analyse latest rules      Related StoriesEXCLUSIVE: How an LPG tanker’s maiden voyage ended with the US sanctioning a sprawling Iranian gas networkThe week in newbuildings: Ordering picks up across most vessel sectorsThe week in charts: February slump raises red flag for container demand | New IMO framework gets cautious welcome | […]
  David Osler
• Container line operators now more cautious about chartering tonnage April 23, 2025
  The boxship charter market has been relatively inactive, as US tariffs weigh on liner services      Related StoriesContships pushes ahead with fleet renewalWhat happens next in the Baltimore bridge case?IMO carbon price not a done deal industry warned 
  Rob Willmington
• Elderly boxships and sanctioned aframax tanker consigned to shipbreakers April 22, 2025
  Eleven vessels were reported sold for recycling in the past two weeks with activity dominated by 1990s-built cargoships      Related StoriesContships pushes ahead with fleet renewalWhat happens next in the Baltimore bridge case?IMO carbon price not a done deal industry warned 
  Rob Willmington
• The week in newbuildings: Ordering picks up across most vessel sectors April 22, 2025
  Orders for one offshore vessel, five gas carriers, six bulkers, six boxships, 11 ro-paxes and 17 tankers recorded in past...      Related StoriesRevised US port fee plan leaves important questions unanswered, lawyers argueEXCLUSIVE: How an LPG tanker’s maiden voyage ended with the US sanctioning a sprawling Iranian gas networkThe week in charts: February slump raises red […]
  Rob Willmington

Department of Transport News

• Transport Secretary acts to make thousands of extra driving tests available each month April 23, 2025
  Further action to reduce waiting times will see thousands of additional tests made available every month.
  HM Government
• Guidance: Government fleet commitment April 17, 2025
  Outlines the scope, reporting requirements and exemptions for the government fleet commitment
  HM Government
• Guidance: TAG data book April 17, 2025
  Historical and reference information on all the appraisal and modelling values referred to in the transport analysis guidance (TAG).
  HM Government
• Guidance: TAG unit M5-3 supplementary economic modelling April 17, 2025
  Transport analysis guidance (TAG) on applying supplementary economic models in transport appraisals.
  HM Government
• Guidance: TAG unit A2-2 induced investment April 17, 2025
  Transport analysis guidance (TAG) on the analysis of induced investment impacts in transport appraisals.
  HM Government
• Guidance: TAG unit A1-3 user and provider impacts April 17, 2025
  Transport analysis guidance (TAG) on the analysis of user and provider impacts in transport appraisals.
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