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Despite hopes for a normalisation of container shipping from Asia, UK and European importers continue to struggle with excess inventory, continuing port disruption, blanked sailings and fewer direct...
Metro has been shipping freight to, from and across Europe since 1981, using road, rail and short-sea services to create country and product-specific transport solutions. Our new Head of European...
Ask people in the Automotive industry what leads to success and you’ll hear product quality, more frequently than any other factor, but innovation, reliability, performance and value are also...
With the pound sterling at it’s lowest level for decades, UK exports are incredibly good value to overseas buyers, we review the post-Brexit trade deals, to channel the UK’s competitive export...
Dock worker strikes at Felixstowe and Liverpool, which overlapped for seven days, ended this week still without agreement and the likelihood of further disruption appears inevitable, with Liverpool...
While we continue to drive forward our ‘green’ initiatives, by selecting environmentally focused partners and further developing our MVT ECO platform in managing, measuring and offsetting carbon...
An initiative by members of the logistics sector, trade associations and the Department for Transport (DfT), Generation Logistics launched this summer aims to build on the sector’s pandemic-linked...
The weakening pound creates winners and losers in international trade, with UK exporters, manufacturers and popular brands looking cheap to overseas buyers, while importers face higher input costs,...
For much of the last two years, container shipping lines have struggled to maintain sufficient capacity to meet demand, but in recent months demand has fallen away, which means...
For over 40 years, spanning five decades, Metro has been managing and transforming outsourced supply chains for leading manufacturers and distributors globally, supported by the...
Strikes at the key container ports of Felixstowe and Liverpool commenced at the latter on the 19th September and will continue to the beginning of October, with dates overlapping for maximum...
With very few route exceptions, the air freight market from India and Asia to Europe has generally been softening for a couple of months, reflected also in the US market, with...