Logistics News & Insights

Net profit reached $2.32 billion as revenue-per-TEU rose 30%, while the CEVA logistics division saw EBITDA fall 14.4% despite 19.2% revenue growth.

GINSI estimates more than Rp2 trillion a year in VAT currently leaks to foreign shipping agents and wants Kemenhub to mandate direct payment to terminal operators - a change that would rework invoicing flows for millions of containers.

The 13 November agreement with Capital A's cargo venture lists automated customs document processing, route optimisation and capacity planning among production-grade AI use cases for a network moving up to 1.25 million parcels a day.

US broker Fura Freight says its AI agent Donna handles 40 percent of bookings end-to-end with a 90 percent target for 2027, while delivery-management SaaS FarEye turned profitable in Q4 FY26 with revenue up 24.6 percent.

The US forwarder's MCP plugin lets customers check ocean, air and LTL rates, request quotes, prepare bookings, track shipments and retrieve documents conversationally in ChatGPT, with human confirmation on bookings.

Signed 6 November, the MoU covers port business development, Indonesia-US trade connectivity and knowledge exchange including supply-chain digitalization, green port and research cooperation, building on a partnership running since 2019.

Published 10 November, the regulation names three strategies including integration and digitalization of logistics services through SINSW; ALFI's advisory board chairman welcomed it, stressing interoperability and data standards.

The Transport Ministry says vehicle data integration for trucking enforcement is 98 percent complete and cites a pilot that logged 72,236 detections; Aptrindo counters that SRUT and KIR databases remain unlinked, leaving ETLE unable to read vehicle data.

The module syncs truck appointment slots with real-time yard state using container lifecycle data, cutting rehandles and truck turn times at terminals running the eModal Pre-Gate platform.

The food supply chain platform's Purchase Order Agent extracts data from photos, PDFs and natural language, matches products, and pushes structured POs into distributor ERP systems.

The freight arm of J&T says shippers can now request door pickup at no charge, lowering the barrier for small businesses and mid-sized shippers as competition in Indonesian cargo intensifies.

The facility near Tanjung Emas port offers 15,800 CBM and 11,300 pallet positions, targeting Central Java's manufacturing and export base as the carrier grows its Indonesian warehouse footprint past 128,000 sqm.

The port operator's handling discount requires a 60% load factor and is now measured over complete outbound-return cycles, while yard rearrangement aims to keep empty containers from dragging down turnaround metrics.

The port group is moving to capture a bigger share of Malacca Strait transshipment traffic it says is currently underserved, alongside terminal expansion in Jakarta.

The port group is moving to capture a bigger share of Malacca Strait transshipment traffic it says is currently underserved, alongside terminal expansion in Jakarta.

The visibility platform integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI so customers can query roughly one trillion shipment records in natural language and execute tasks, claiming multimillion reductions in detention and demurrage exposure.

The digital road freight forwarder raised €73 million in equity from Scania and Poste Italiane plus €155 million in debt facilities, earmarked for integrating C.H. Robinson's European surface business and selling its sennOS platform and AI agents to other forwarders.

C.H. Robinson extended its AI agents from trucking to ocean freight, air freight, and US customs brokerage. Air and ocean quote times fell from 1–3 days to 2–3 minutes, per company figures.

Freightos launched a new-generation AI-native platform for forwarders, converting unstructured customer inquiries into quotations within seconds. The company said more than 300 forwarders are already on the platform.

Indonesia's PPLI held a session on 2027 cold chain transport opportunities at SIAL Indonesia 2026, highlighting IoT temperature tracking and regulatory reform. BKPM reported Q3 2026 PMDN concentrated in transport, warehousing, and telecom.

US Foods says AI is generating more than US$75 million in annual benefits across sales, supply chain, and corporate operations, targeting US$110 million by 2027. The company has slowed sales hiring as productivity rises.

Walmart committed US$6 billion to expand Symbotic warehouse automation across 25 distribution centers, including BreakPack robotic picking modules. The move coincides with large-scale AI spending signals from food distributors.

Industry federation data shows transport operations lead at 78 percent adoption, while JD Logistics reports 99.9 percent tracking accuracy from robotic sorting arms.

The 16,556 TEU Ever Eon transited the Suez Canal on 8 November, Evergreen's first such transit since the Red Sea crisis; Xeneta separately projects lower global rates for 2027.

The 16,556-TEU Ever Eon transited the canal on Sunday, leaving Zim as the only major carrier still routing around Africa, as Xeneta projects spot rates falling 30 percent in 2027.

The Ministry of Transportation's intensified ramp checks for freight and passenger transport run from 10 November 2026 to 3 January 2027, alongside ETLE HUB trial results and a planned graduated sanctions framework.

The Coordinating Ministers for Food Affairs and Transportation reviewed readiness at the North Sumatra gateway, ordering early detection of distribution bottlenecks for the compressed holiday season.

The Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs and the Transportation Minister reviewed staple food distribution readiness at Belawan Port ahead of the closely sequenced year-end holidays and Ramadan.

The new feature automates data entry from MSDS and dangerous goods declarations into web bookings for LCL sea consolidation shipments.

The Japanese forwarder announced an AI-OCR feature to automate data entry for LCL dangerous goods sea bookings, replacing manual input from MSDS and Dangerous Goods Declarations.

The state port operator aims to capture around 40% of Malacca Strait transshipment services, currently dominated by Singapore and Malaysia, using the Nipa STS anchorage and a planned Dumai hub.

The state port operator says Singapore and Malaysia now control roughly 60 percent of traffic on the strait, where Indonesia's share is currently minimal.

The transport ministry's checks run to 3 January 2027, as trial data from the ETLE HUB enforcement system shows 239,087 violations identified across 51 points in under three months.

A House commission working visit found Pelindo's regional control room tracking vessels and yard density in real time, while consolidation of container and conventional cargo into Tanjung Carat awaits headquarters' direction.

TPS deployed four quay cranes and 14 electric RTGs through 2026, while freight forwarders in East Java say service speed and logistics costs must keep pace with the new hardware.

Official data show document offences made up 50.25 percent of 676,000 truck violations recorded between January and October 2026, two months before no-tolerance enforcement begins.

The CMA CGM subsidiary announces increases of US$500 per 20-foot and US$1,000 per 40-foot container on Asia to Australia and New Zealand lanes, plus a Fremantle congestion surcharge.

The Berlin-based transport data platform acquired 100 percent of the freight invoice and contract audit software firm, with terms not disclosed.

The round was backed by forwarder-linked investors WALTER GROUP's WaVe-X and FIEGE's F-LOG Ventures, alongside Piton Capital and Haufe Group Ventures.

Investors include the venture arms of WALTER GROUP and FIEGE — two major forwarders choosing to buy document-verification capability rather than build it.

The government announced a fourth revision of PP 36/2023 raising export proceeds conversion to up to 100 percent, broader Article 18A relaxation, and a clearer monitoring role for DSI.

The Ministry of Transportation will inspect 2,140 ships through 132 port authority offices and run ramp checks at 223 airports ahead of the holiday travel period.

Middle East Operational Update 53 pauses UAE/Qatar ↔ Jeddah/Oman landside moves, sets emergency rates of $1,800–3,800 per container plus a $1,000 Strait of Hormuz transit fee.

The carrier's advisory covers landside booking pauses on Gulf corridors, an Emergency Freight Rate of USD 1,800-3,800 per container, and a Strait of Hormuz transit fee.

The Pertamina subsidiary takes on five fuel terminals in Kalimantan with support for up to 100 tank trucks, three additional LPG terminals, and wider aviation fuel coverage in eastern Indonesia.

The state port operator is drafting cooperation agreements with national shipping lines after the PINP head of agreement, with handling tariff discounts of at least 20 percent calculated through the ADHARA system.

The agreement expands a partnership first established in 2019 and includes knowledge exchange between PoLA's Port Optimizer and Pelindo's newly launched ADHARA platform.

The maritime analytics firm's latest assessment puts container service instability on the corridor at the highest among the major trade lanes it monitors.

Shanggang Group is developing an AI pilot base covering loading, container distribution and multimodal scenarios, with Chinese media reports citing 54 managed AI business agents.

The main road link to the Los Angeles and Long Beach port complex began a full closure on 7 November, with vessel operations unaffected but truck congestion and inland dwell time expected to rise.

The logistics group raised its full-year outlook after double-digit revenue and EBIT growth, with air freight volumes up 12 percent on Asia-driven demand.

Deployments of 53,236 TEU from 7 November mark the first large-scale return by an Ocean Alliance carrier since the Red Sea disruptions.

The end-to-end logistics and intralogistics exhibition runs 25–27 November at NICE PIK 2 Jakarta, with free exhibition passes for all three days.

The Pelindo container terminal in Banjarmasin switched to the group's standard Terminal Operating System on 1 November, backed by seven digitalised port services.

The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs said all export-hindering rules will be revised, while a new policy on export proceeds was scheduled for announcement on 6 November.

The Descartes Systems Group announced that its **Descartes MacroPoint™ Advanced Ocean Visibility** solution is now integrated with **SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration** and **SAP Business Network Global Track and Trace** via a standardized connection to the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN). Visibility data

DJBC states that CEISA 4.0 now runs **Trade AI with 8 end-to-end AI agents** in customs screening: (1) market and price analysis — real-time fair value from marketplaces; (2) HS code classification based on semantic attributes; (3) **document validation & AI matching** — consistency of trade documents

DSI is preparing a requirement for exporters to upload their commercial contracts through the **NADI (National Data Intelligence)** portal: contract documents must be uploaded **before** an exporter can proceed with the export licensing process. DSI checks the reasonableness of transactions and anomalies in those documents; the administrative relations

Pelindo has introduced the **Auto Collection System (ACS) Dashboard**: service users can monitor the status of port services payments (paid/held/released) in real time in a single view; the dashboard data is designed for matching and reconciliation between service users, banks, and Pelindo. ACS is now connect

Softlink Global (vendor of Logi-Sys, a cloud ERP for freight and logistics) is promoting the **"Digital Employees"** concept: an AI-powered worker per business role with defined responsibilities, access permissions, operating rules, and limits of authority. The initial program covers three roles: Import Freight Shipment (inte