The global logistics sector continues to be plagued by a wide range of disrupting factors, including continued geopolitical and macroeconomic instability, fiscal policy reversals topped off by infrastructural bottlenecks. These factors, previously seen as exceptional, have now become everyday topics – and as we say, “the new normal”.

Yokohama and Odesa are sister cities and take that fact very seriously. With Odesa fighting to stay at a functional level for its citizens, Yokohama has come to their aid.

On 1 September, only seven months after opening its first wholly owned operation in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the global logistics provider Scan Global Logistics (SGL) opened its second office in Abu Dhabi. Setting up business in the UAE capital, the fastest-growing international trade hub in the Middle East, is also a step towards enhancing SGL's presence in the economically flourishing region while expanding its global foothold.

Our engineers are put to the test when moving a +150-ton heavy transformer to the remote regions of Mozambique calls for a never tried before solution. While the monsoon is closing in, threatening to delay delivery, 40 dedicated people work relentlessly to solve the unique challenge in a close cross-country collaboration.

The M/V Africa Mercy hospital ship was stuck in Las Palmas due to generator problems and thus had no power on the entire ship. Everllence (formerly MAN Energy Solutions) in Frederikshavn, Denmark, donated all spare parts to this ship and booked our Airfreight department in Billund, Denmark, to handle the urgent delivery.