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Rate Expectations: Detours and Duties Distorting the Market
The freight market since mid-2025 has been marked by flat trade volumes, tariff-driven demand surges, and carrier-led rate increases amid…
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Publication
How Enforceable Are Freight Contracts? Get the Legal Perspective
Freight contracts only hold up if they’re legally robust. Discover how you can ensure no one walks away and leaves you, and your goods, stranded…
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Briefing
Closing the Legal Gap: What the Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents Means for Multimodal Logistics
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has approved the draft Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents (the Convention)..
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Briefing
Sea Freight – Weathering the Storm of Uncertainty
The past six months in the containerised sea freight market have been marked by significant uncertainty. The unpredictable geopolitical landscape…
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Briefing
Navigating the Trump Effect: Container Shipping in Troubled Waters?
This article provides a high-level analysis of the possible range of outcomes carriers and shippers alike might expect over the coming months …
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Briefing
Re-Evaluating Force Majeure in Container Contracts
Shippers and carriers both have an interest in re-evaluating their force majeure provisions to consider how their carriage contracts respond to extern
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Briefing
Sea Freight – Smoother Waters or Choppy Sailing Ahead?
As we concluded in our last briefing on this topic in June 2024, ongoing geopolitical situations in the Red Sea and elsewhere …
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Market Insight
European Logistics & Supply Chain Sustainability Report
Building upon the success of our first two reports in 2022 and 2023, HFW, Panattoni and Pledge, in conjunction with Analytiqa …
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Briefing
Ports concessions: To renew or retender, that is the question
We saw a wave of port privatisation in the nineties and noughties. Governments were looking for funds to develop …
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Briefing
SOLAS convention amendments
Amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS Convention) – mandatory reporting for containers lost at sea …
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Briefing
UK’s Automated Vehicles Act 2024
Self-driving vehicles could be on British roads as early as 2026 after the UK’s Automated Vehicles Act (the Act) was enacted on 20 May 2024…
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Briefing
Sea freight – Six months is a long time
In this article, we look back at the last six months in the containerised sea freight market and also ahead to the next six.
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