PAIMA (Pan American International Movers Association) has cancelled its 2020 convention scheduled for October this year in San Diego, California.

Long-term contracted ocean freights fell for the second consecutive month and are now 1.3% down year-on-year, as the ramifications of coronavirus continue to shake the foundations of the global economy.

The International Association of Movers is to run its annual conference in October completely online due to COVID-19 public health and safety concerns.

FIDI is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a new video featuring members of the FIDI community.

On 2 July The Mover received a copy of a letter, addressed to the President and General Manager of FIDI, from an anonymous group simply calling itself a ‘Group of concerned FIDI Members’. The letter complained that, during the COVID-19 crisis FIDI had not provided adequate support to its members.

As the global economy reels from the ongoing impact of coronavirus, hard work and strategic thinking from the carrier community appears to have mitigated immediate damage to long-term contracted ocean freight rates according to Xeneta, the market intelligence organisation.

HMM (Hyundai Merchant Marine) has named the world’s largest containership HMM Algeciras. The vessel is the first of 12, 24,000 TEU-class vessels scheduled to be sequentially delivered between now and September 2020.

As the COVID-19 lockdown continues in the UK, the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency, issued operational guidance on 28 April for removals companies wishing to return to work on the islands.

Asia-based logistics company Dimerco Express Group has supported a donation of 80,000 (PPE) masks from China to help combat the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. The company collected the masks from across China and successfully coordinated their delivery to Italy.