In early August, Georgia Angell from Trellis Vine Consulting in Florida, Maarten van Zutphen from Cani Consulting in the Netherlands and Mark Oakeshott from Mark Oakeshott Consulting based in Chicago, launched The Movers Consulting Group, with a mission to bring high-quality, industry-specific consulting to everyone in the industry, at an affordable price.

At this year’s EUROMOVERS conference in Catania, Sicily, member companies were acknowledged for their tonnage contribution to the network, service quality, administration and financial responsibility.

During the 2023 LACMA Convention held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Arpin International Group employee Ronnie Blanchard and his colleagues from the Latin and Caribbean Movers Association (LACMA) participated in a volunteer project with Techo.

Just over 80 years ago, on the afternoon of 15 August, 1943, an air battle took place in the skies over the towns and villages around Le Folgoët in France where three Royal Air Force pilots and two Luftwaffe pilots lost their lives.

AltoVita, the online corporate property company, will hold its Smart, Safe, Sustainable Summit in Asia for the first time.

At a ceremony at the IMO headquarters in London, H E Suhail Al Mazrouei, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, and Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO DNV Maritime, representing the Foundation Det Norske Veritas, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on establishing a new UAE Decarbonization Centre.

Grace in Australia has announced the conclusion of its Trees for Containers initiative that started in 2021.

Maersk has ordered six mid-sized container vessels fitted with dual-fuel engines able to operate on green methanol. Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Group will build the six 9,000 TEU ships which will be delivered in 2026 and 2027.

AltoVita, the corporate accommodation platform specialising in large enterprises, has announced its partnership with Noah Mobility, a global mobility management company that supports companies and individuals during the entire process of relocation. Both companies are taking strides to redefine the global mobility sector with their technology.

The main panel discussion at the OMNI conference in DaNang was on the topic of leadership. Leadership is a hot topic in the industry right now.

A joint UK-EU project to develop retrofit carbon capture solutions and other technologies for ships to reduce their emissions and fuel consumption has got underway.

Drought in the Panama region has created a shortage of water in the Panama canal that has forced the authorities to reduce the volume of shipping traffic through this vital waterway.

Deepki, a major ESG (Environmental, Social Governance) platform for real estate, announced in May that it had acquired Nooco, the French SaaS company created by VINCI Energies that measures and optimises the carbon footprint of building construction and renovation projects.

Vialto Partners, a leading provider to the global mobility sector, has announced a strategic relationship with Velocity Global, a specialist in remote workforce management.

TIP Group, a leading truck and trailer service provider, is launching a brand new academy to educate trailer mechanics.

Bangkok-based United Relocations is celebrating its 15th anniversary, marking a decade and a half of delivering relocation services to clients worldwide.

The supply chain industry is hopeful of a better peak season this year and expects freight demand recovery in the Q2 of 2023, according to the recently published monthly container market forecaster for April by the online logistics platform, Container xChange.

Maybe Da Nang wouldn’t be an obvious choice for a conference, but then OMNI rarely does anything that might be considered conventional.

Relosmart in Hong Kong and with offices in mainland China, has recently joined the British Association of Removers (BAR).

Patricia Jade Ooi, the founder of the International Mobility Alliance (IMA), and José Pose from K2 Corporate Mobility, married in a simple ceremony at the Register Office in Bracknell, Berkshire, in England on 3 May, 2023.