February 2014
IAG is to replace three Boeing 747-400 flights on its daily London Heathrow-Singapore service with an Airbus A380 from 28 October. The new plane will offer temperature-controlled capability for the pharmaceutical industry.
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Australian carrier Qantas is moving its UK freight handling and offices to the new dnata City centre at London Heathrow under a long-term agreement to manage freight handling on its twice-daily A380 services to Heathrow.
The dnata City project comprises a 20-acre cargo complex based on five warehouses, a transport facility ...
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Saudi Airlines Cargo is to introduce a new three times a week passenger routes from Riyadh and Jeddah to Manchester with the start of the new summer timetable from 1 April. It will be operated by B777-200 aircraft offering a nine tonne cargo capacity from Saudi Arabia and 12 tonnes ...
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Shipping line OOCL says it is putting up rates from the Far East (including Japan) to North Europe, the Mediterranean and Black Sea by US$575 per teu. It says the move is needed to continue providing quality and sustainable services.
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Two MINIs being unloaded from the hold of an Emirates 777 flight in Glasgow are an unusual enough sight in themselves, but these were no ordinary cars. They are actually mini laboratories owned by Paisley-based Life Sciences Solutions. The trunks of the Minis transform at the touch of a button ...
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Chapman Freeborn and its logistics partners SPI International and Logik Logistics moved the first ever C-Worker unmanned surface vehicle from Portsmouth, UK to Lafayette, Louisina. The 20-foot long C-Worker, which is set to revolutionise oil and gas operations, was flown on a chartered British Airways Boeing 747 freighter.
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The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has warned against plans to make sprinkler systems mandatory in all facilities over 20,000 sq m. It follows a campaign launched by the Business Sprinkler Alliance for the current law to be reviewed. UKWA chief executive officer, Roger Williams (pictured), says that while the use ...
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CMA CGM has added new calls at Samsun (Turkey), Novorossiysk (Russia) and Constanta (Romania) on its FEMEX service between North Europe and the Mediterranean. Import transit time into Thessaloniki will also be improved by five days, as this will be the first port of call of the southbound rotation beyond ...
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Short term worries helped pull down the latest overall Stifel Logistics Confidence Index, said joint publishers Transport Intelligence (Ti) on 18 February.
Although the economic outlook for 2014 is expected to be bright, it igot off to a slow start with the overall Logistics Confidence Index slipping 0.6 points to 56.0, ...
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Hull-based Neill & Brown Global Logistics is investing £2.5m in a new 40,000 sq ft warehouse at Marfleet Environmental Technology Park with the help of 20% funding from the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership’s Growing the Humber fund. The money is part of the £30m allocated to the Humber LEP from ...
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