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Thursday, 23 December 2021

Financial Times

• Maersk to buy Hong Kong’s LF Logistics in $3.6bn dealDeal part of Danish shipping group’s push into land-based distribution
• Maersk/LF Logistics: deal makes giant shipper even more powerful Container freight rates are at record highs as supply chain disruptions push up demand

The Herald

• Alan Simpson: From CalMac to Scotrail, politicians need to start taking transport seriouslyIT is the role of every Government to pass laws and legislate and is pretty much the only thing that we, the electorate, expect from the politicians that we vote in.

Times Online

• Moving the deckchairs on Scotland’s ferry programme before the storm hits [Subscription]n Scottish government circles, I’m told, it is known as Project Neptune — the moniker consultants at EY have attached to their advice to ministers on what to do about the organisational clutter that is failing to deliver reliable ferry services for many of Scotland’s island communities. Neptune was the Roman god of the seas. It is also the furthest known planet from the Sun, an icy world that has been visited by mankind, or at least one of its satellites, only once — by Voyager 2, in 1989.