July 2016

Shippers hit out at ‘exorbitant charges’

Shipping lines and service providers, mainly in Asia and Africa,are imposing exorbitant charges for questionable “administration fees” and other “services” in connection with the new verified gross mass (VGM) rules, says the Global Shippers Forum. The UK-headquartered GSF is calling for those charges to be withdrawn immediately and is currently a number of examples provided by its members and says it will be taking them up with the service providers These include ... [+]

Business on the move at Quality Freight

Quality Freight UK has launched a mobile crane service after investing £300,000 in a second Fuchs loading machine. Both cranes can be moved at short notice to locations across North West England, for example to load bulk ships in Runcorn or to discharge trains at rail terminals. Managing director, Sebastian Gardiner, ... [+]

Wings to West Africa

Volga-Dnepr Airlines moved two power generators to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with the help of a new ‘wing lift’ system that reduces loading time for large containers to under 30 minutes. The ‘wing lift’ system reduces the usual four-hour loading time for containers using wheels attached to each corner ofthe  containers ... [+]

All change at Cargolux

Cargolux president and chief executive Dirk Reich is to leave the all-cargo for personal reasons and has asked to terminate his contract early at the end of July. His successor will be current executive vice-president and chief financial officer. Richard Forson; the latter’s replacement is Maxim Strauss. [+]

Manchester to London in four hours flat

The Lufthansa-owned time:matters sameday internataional logistics network has added a number of UK cities to its network, follwing the integration of Flybe into its network. The move adds a further 14 direct connections between the English industrial powerhouses of Manchester and Birmingham and European centres such as Amsterdam, Berlin and ... [+]

Biggest ever ship for Great Yarmouth

The biggest vessel ever to berth at Great Yarmouth in June also marked the start of a diversirfication process for the port, acquired by Peel Ports six months ago. The 64,000-tonne Glovis Spendor was carrying a cargo of 3,300 Hyundai cars for UK car dealerships. They were offloaded to dedicated ... [+]