December 2014
The Port of Gothenburg has opened a new transloading terminal for timber products to serve exporters in the Nordic region, run by family-owned company Sören Thyr. Although paper, pulp and timber products account for a large proportion of exports through tGothenburg, up to now, the port has lacked a dedicated terminal for transloading sawn timber products. The new forest terminal is adjacent to the port's ro-ro and container terminals and ...
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French-owned forwarder SDV has set up its own subsidiary in Spain. The new structure compromises 110 staff headquartered in Valencia, and will incorporate the Bolloré group teams already present in Spain, including Isamar, specializing in shipping. There will be 18 people dedicated to industrial projects, most of them coming from ...
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Hong Kong airfreight forwarders BEL International Logistics Limited and Rhenus Logistics have completed a successful trial to produce electronic air waybills using local handler Hactl’s COSAC-AWB web-based e-AWB generation module.
They can now generate IATA-standard e-AWBs for any carrier handled by Hactl that accepts electronic bookings, having demonstrated their ability ...
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The UK's largest container port, Felixstowe, is developing 1.45 million sq ft of warehousing on a 68-acre site, tailored to the needs of its customers. The port's CEO, Clemence Cheng, said it would have “the key advantage of being located within the port’s perimeter” - less than 100 metres from ...
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Mohamed Yahya Ould Sidi Haiba will visit Stanford-Le-Hope forwarder Claridon Group on 10 December as part of the first-ever visit by a Mauritanian ambassador to Essex. The Ambassador will be meeting Claridon’s managing director Christopher Scott in his capacity of a member of the Governments International Advisory Council and International ...
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Following its experiments with pilotless flying drones, DHL has published a new report on their land-based counterparts, Self-Driving Vehicles in Logistics.
DHL considers that it is in a prime position to innovate in this area. Self-driving forklift trucks and the like are nothing new in warehouses, but vehicles of the future ...
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Two partners aim to bring a container-style feeder concept to the heavylift and breakbulk cargo sectors in the North Sea and Baltic. The Baltic Cargo Shuttle (BCS) is operated by 8,000dwt heavylift ship MV Lyra J which can call all Baltic ports within a maximum of two days and has ...
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'Is price the most important factor when selecting a forwarding partner?' is the subject of this month's freight industry survey by Transport Intelligence (Ti). The survey takes less than 60 seconds to complete and as a participant, you will receive an advanced copy of the published report.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/StifelDec14
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Potter Logistics’ says its Selby rail freight terminal was able to maintain turn-round times for the daily GBRf-operated MSC container train from Felixstowe port from July to September 2014, despite engineering work on a local swing bridge reducing available time by 50 minutes.
Pictured: Jason Croft, account manager - GBRf (L) ...
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The Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) has welcomed the inclusion of international shipping emissions on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20) agenda currently taking place in Lima, Peru (1-12 December 2015). While, according to the latest third International Maritime Organisation greenhouse gas study, carbon emissions have reduced from 2.7% of emissions ...
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