April 2016

Sea-rail corridor to speed produce to market

French port Marseille Fos has launched a new sea/rail service to move Israeli produce to northern Europe under a European Union (EU) pilot project. Co-financed under the EU’s Connecting Europe facility, the Fresh Food Corridors pilot will run for two years until 2018 and also includes links from Slovenia and Italy involving the ports of Koper and Venice.  In each case, the goods are being shipped from Israel by exporter ... [+]

Dublin-Dutch partnership bears fruit

Dublin-based EFL International Distribution has signed an agency partnership with Gondrand International to offer freight forwarding and logistics services between Ireland and Benelux. There is now a twice-weekly seafreight service into Dublin from Rotterdam on Tuesdays and Fridays and a once a week service every Friday from Dublin to Rotterdam. Gondrand’s ... [+]

New recruits spearhead DB Cargo drive

DB Cargo UK – the rebranded DB Schenker Rail - has introduced three new members to its sales team to expand its offerings to growing markets. Kathryn Oldale joins as bid manager and Rob Brewster (left) and Phil McKennell (right) account managers for Intermodal. Kathryn Oldale previously worked in a ... [+]

Southampton chooses container weighing system

Strainstall, which recently unveiled a system for weighing containers in line with new SOLAS verified gross mass regulation which come into force on 1 July, has secured an order for its system from DP World Southampton, the first major commitment by a global container terminal. DP World Southampton chief executive, ... [+]

Nagel opens second Netherlands site

Food logistics specialist Nagel-Group has opened its second location in the Netherlands at Waalwijk, following an agreement with fellow food specialist, Kivits Drunen. The new partner will undertake collections, transhipment services and distribution in the southern and western regions of the country. [+]

Palletways opens Lyon hub

Palletways Group has opened a new hub in Lyon, south eastern France, allowing it to increase the frequency and cost-efficiency of services to and from the UK. The new facility is part of a major hub development programme across Europe  which has included  new facilities in Montpellier (France) and Fradley (UK) ... [+]

Handler dedicates new Heathrow building to Cathay Pacific

Middle East-owned handling firm dnata UK has opened an on-airport cargo facility at London Heathrow’s Building 521a, dedicated to Cathay Pacific. According to dnata, it ends months of industry speculation as to who would tenant the prime piece of real estate at the UK's biggest airport. It is promising a ... [+]

BT to give Panalpina new-look IT infrastructure

Panalpina is to streamline its IT systems, replacing a string of existing local and regional services with a single provider – BT. The UK based telecoms provider will overhaul the global forwarder's network infrastructure and move it to a single integrated platform. It will also provide services from its BT ... [+]

New boss for British Ports Association

The British Ports Association has elected Shoreham Port chief executive, Rodney Lunn as its new chairman. Milford Haven chief executive, Alec Don becomes deputy chairman. Mr Lunn pledged  to conclude the trust port review and develop revised good governance principles for the sector, as well as working closely with the ... [+]

Kerry raises India stake

Kerry Logistics is to increase its stake in Chennai, India-based Indev Logistics. Indev will be renamed as Kerry-Indev Logistics, reflecting Kerry Logistics’ ambition to becoming a major pan-Indian logistics company. [+]

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