With almost all sea containers being manufactured in China, recent disruption caused by Covid, and other market forces, have led to volatility in the supply of new units.

Africa Mobility Services will be attending the IAM (International Association of Movers) convention in November and will be campaigning to collect pens to help with children’s education in Africa.

MOBILITAS has opened new facilities in Yaou, Côte d’Ivoire, in the presence of Vice-Chairman Paul Massardier and the town’s First Deputy Mayor, Sylvestre Toppé.

According to Xeneta, the ocean and air freight rate benchmarking and market intelligence platform, May saw the highest ever monthly increase in long-term contracted ocean freight rates, as the cost of locking in container shipments soared by 30.1%.

OMNI (Overseas Moving Network International) has delivered its second online sustainability workshop which, as this is an issue that affects the whole industry, was also open to and attended by FIDI affiliates and staff.

FIDI has announced the publishing of the approved FAIM 2022 Standard that will be subject to third-party audits from January 2023. The new Standard replaces the current FAIM 3.2 Standard.

Allen Lu from AMR in Shanghai has advised that, after two months of almost complete lockdown, the key port of Shanghai in China is beginning to open up again.

On 13 May, volunteers from Grace Group took part in a tree planting day at Kinglake West in the Yarra Ranges National Park, Victoria, with its charity partner Greenfleet; a not-for-profit environmental organisation with a mission to protect the climate by restoring Australia’s forests.

Aires has been named Relocation Management Company of the Year by the Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM) at the Americas Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards (EMMAs).

Atlas Canada, a subsidiary of Atlas World Group Inc, has announced that it has signed a 25-year renewal agreement with​AMJ Campbell effective May 1, 2022.

OMNI (Overseas Moving Network International) has announced a full programme of workshops for 2022 focussing on sustainability within the moving and relocation industry.

Goetz Moving and Storage in the Philippines has recently hosted a major event with the Australian government and UNICEF to help the vaccination programme in the country.

BMW has extended the Household Goods Removal Contract that was awarded to the Harmony Relocation Network in June 2019 for a further two years until 2024.

The latest container logistics report issued by Container xChange, a marketplace and technology infrastructure provider for container logistics companies, indicates a decline in average prices for second-hand containers.

OMNI (Overseas Moving Network International) presented its annual tonnage awards at a specially arranged ceremony in Cannes immediately prior to the FIDI conference.

The latest analysis from Oslo-based Xeneta shows marked fluctuations in air freight rates between Western Europe and the US, as an increased passenger travel drives cargo capacity to new heights for 2022.

Chris Mackley, General manager of OMNI (Overseas Moving Network International), talks to Paul Barnes of Inspire Global Mobility Consulting about the ways in which OMNI is pushing forward sustainability within its members.

OMNI member Mudanzas Mundiales in Costa Rica has reported that, due to an alleged hacking, the platforms Administración Tributaria Virtual (ATV) and Tecnología de Información para el Control Aduanero (TICA) of the Costa Rican Ministry of Finance are temporarily out of service.

TSG Consumer Partners (TSG), a private equity firm, announced on 7 April that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Cadogan Tate Group Holdings. The transaction is expected to close in May following regulatory clearance.

MY Moving in Malaysia, run by Steve Lewis, has signed with ecolegIT, an all-new sustainability programme for the moving and global mobility industry that not only compensates the CO2 emission of individual moves, but that structurally changes how these moves are performed (see story in The Mover, March 2022, page 35).