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Freight & Logistics Industry News – March 2025

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What has caught our eye

In this section, we bring you the latest updates and insights to help you stay ahead—covering breaking news, emerging trends, and critical developments within logistics, shipping & freight, and recruitment.

This included mergers & acquisitions, awards, big contract wins, new technology and anything else that we felt was newsworthy, and feel you may too.

shipping and freight recruitment

Europe’s largest cranes for DP World Southampton

The new cranes will be the largest quay cranes in Europe and can perform quad lifts, moving two 40ft containers together from ship to yard in a single move, reducing the time taken to load and unload large container vessels.

First ship arrives in Southampton under Gemini Cooperation agreement

On 3 February 2025, the MV Leonidio became the first ship to dock at DP World Southampton under the Gemini Cooperation agreement – a collaboration between shipping giants Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd.

Starmer and Trump discuss UK-US trade deal, as 25% EU tariff threatened

During UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s first visit to the White House since the inauguration of US president Donald Trump, the two leaders discussed – amongst other things – a trade deal that may see the UK avoid tariffs from the US, unlike, it seems, the European Union.