February 2017
More than 63% of British small and medium sized enterprises are exporting, taking advantage of declines in the value of the Pound, according to the latest FedEx SMEs Export Report.
It also reveals that the digital economy proves to be an essential enabler allowing SMEs to take advantage of international opportunities, with many increasingly embracing new technology and processes. More than eight in ten (81%) of UK exporting SMEs generate revenue ...
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Stena Line has signed a long-term partnership to raise and promote volunteering and charitable giving for the Mercy Ships charity.
Mercy Ships operates the largest civilian hospital-ship in the world to deliver free, world-class health care services to the world’s poorest people along with helping to create health facilities in the ...
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Even with the current shortage and premium prices of green veg, there's little sign that Britain's husbands are offering the Missus a bunch of broccoli as an alternative to the usual Valentine’s Day bunch of red roses. Heathrow airport says that its latest figures show a spike (or should that ...
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The Clecat European forwarders’ alliance has hit out against proposals by nine European transport ministers that would ‘encourage’ operators to allow drivers to return to their home base at weekends. It says that the proposals would reduce the competitiveness of European transport and would frustrate ambitions to reduce carbon emissions.
Ministers ...
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French Customs, the HAROPA ports group, port community system SOGET and ISEL University of Le Havre Normandy, have joined forces to create TRAFIS LAB, an applied research laboratory on trade facilitation, digital customs and logistics.
They have initiated a Scientific Interest Group to host a public-private partnership which will welcome researchers ...
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FedEx Express’s new Southern Europe gateway at Milan-Malpensa airport is now fully operational. The 35,000sq m facility features advanced technology that will boost package sorting capacity by 25% in Italy where the number of people making online purchases has doubled over the last five years and purchases for 2016 are ...
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The GreenBridge Multimodal joint venture has introduced a fourth intermodal rail and sea service between Turkey and Europe. The joint venture organisation between Samskip Multimodal and Intercombi Transport - a subsidiary of the Turkey Netlog Logistics Group - is now operating an additional roundtrip train to connect the Duisburg rail ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has issued a ‘Brexit manifesto’ on behalf of the UK logistics industry, collated from responses from the FTA’s 16,000 members.
FTA deputy chief executive James Hookham, said: “We believe that the logistics industry has a key role to play in ensuring that Britain’s new trading relationships ...
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EKOL Greece received a Gold Award in the Freight Transportation & Freight Forwarding at the recent Transport & Logistics Awards in Athens. Country manager Dimitris Batakis said it was in recognition of initiatives including as a new block train connection linking Greece with Scandinavia.
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The IRU has published new international guidelines to reduce the number of people injured and to minimise transport disruptions resulting from load related incidents in the workplace and on the road. “Safe and Efficient Goods Reception for Road Freight” sets out standards on safe loading and unloading practices, the guidelines ...
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