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SPOTLIGHT ON...Ove Dokk, International Business Development Manager for GLS

Cross-border logistics is often described in terms of infrastructure, capacity, and technology. For Ove Dokk, International Business Development Manager at GLS, the differentiator is more human: proximity to customers, entrepreneurial...

June 30, 2026

The Red Sea is closed and shipping prices are skyrocketing in Europe

The Red Sea is currently closed to international maritime traffic, and its consequences for world trade are unpredictable. Houthi attacks on merchant ships blocked this vital shipping route between Asia...

January 15, 2024

Google will display expanded shipping and returns information

Google will display expanded shipping and returns information in search text results for commercial sites. This is done by aggregating content using structured data markup, like how you have marked up...

April 20, 2023

H&M to limit free shipping because of sustainability

H&M, a clothing retailer with shops present in over 70 countries globally, decided that free shipping is unsustainable for profitability. In sixteen of the countries that the retailer operates in,...

April 17, 2019

Global shipping volumes: $279 billion revenue in 2017

The Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index revealed that parcel shipping generates 279 billion dollars revenue in 2017. Turnover increased with 11% over 2016, while parcel volumes grew 17%, to 74.4...

August 30, 2018