10 August 2026
“I have made my expectations clear.” ...
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10 August 2026
Nour Haydar speaks to Guardian Australia’s media correspondent Amanda Meade to unpack the opening week of the criminal trial of veteran broadcaster Alan Jones ...
10 August 2026
Over the past 25 years of Insiders covering Australian politics, the art of it has sometimes been more finger painting than masterpiece.
10 August 2026
On the one hand, starting a business is easy. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), as of June 30, 2024, there were 2. 6 million actively trading businesses acros ...
10 August 2026
Today we have an op-ed by Newton Davis, co-founder of Janus, a fintech focused on shipment-level financial clarity for ocean & air freight forwarders, and Raoul Wintjes, head of international road haulage, air freight & digitalisation at DSLV, the Association for Freight Forwarding and Logistics Germany. Somewhere inside every freight forwarder’s operation is a system that almost no one outside the industry has heard of – and that almost no one ... The post An open-source TMS: the machine room must be open appeared first on The Loadstar .
10 August 2026
Water levels along the Rhine are continuing to fall, as repeated heatwaves across Europe prolong drought, with shipping bosses now warning the river could effectively be being “split in two”, as carriers slap new surcharges on all modes. MSC announced on Friday it had introduced a wave of “traffic congestion surcharges” for rail, trucking, and rail-truck transport from/to Antwerp and Rotterdam via Andernach, Frankfurt, Germersheim Munich, Nurnberg, Neuss, Strasbourg, Trier, and ... The post Congestion fear as ‘unnavigable’ Rhine means cargo shift to road and rail appeared first on The Loadstar .
10 August 2026
Iran attacked another ADNOC vessel in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the Houthis simultaneously striking Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure. The UAE said an ADNOC-owned vessel was hit by an Iranian missile early on Saturday while transiting Hormuz. No casualties were reported and ADNOC said the situation was brought under control. The UAE …
10 August 2026
Iran aims to put pressure on Trump amid negotiations with Oman, Labor Department to release new report on inflation, new report reveals decades of abuse at arts school linked to Epstein.
