June 2017
Maersk Line and beverage forwarder JF Hillebrand jointly signed a Carbon Pact at the Vinexpo Trade Fair in Bordeaux. Both companies aspire to reduce CO2 emissions per container moved by 20% until 2025, promote transparency and benchmarking in container shipping and make other efforts to further promote sustainable transportation solutions.
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Evergreen Line is offering Alibaba.com members sea freight services online with guaranteed space and prices. The shipping line allows shippers to search for freight rates and reserve cargo space on the Alibaba.com platform directly, a service that is primarily to suppliers in China. Once a booking is confirmed, the selected ...
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Following the delayed Queen’s Speech on 21 May, Robert Keen said it was no surprise that it was dominated by bills related to Brexit, nor that many of the items in the Conservative election manifesto did not make an appearance.
However, he added: “But it is very disappointing that the Conservatives’ ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed David Geer as managing director, succeeding John Lloyd following his decision to leave the airline after 30 years. David Geer joined Virgin Atlantic in April 2012 and has spent the last five years with Virgin Holidays, most recently as commercial, product and business development director, ...
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Hamburg Süd said it would meet Good Distribution Practice (GDP) standards for the transport of pharma goods from July. GDP rules stipulate that the temperature-regulating sensors of the reefer machinery not only monitor each other automatically, but also that calibration has to take place, and be documented, at regular intervals.
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Network Airline Management is to operate a weekly MD11 freighter service from Nairobi to Doncaster Sheffield Airport to carry flowers and vegetables for some of the country’s largest retailers.
It will be the airport’s first scheduled flight handling perishable goods after it gained Border Inspection Post status last year.
Airport cargo manager ...
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Grangemouth, Scotland’s largest container port, has ordered a new multimillion pound ship to shore container crane from Liebherr.
Able to handle vessels of 14 containers across, the crane will be designed and built in Liebherr’s facility in Killarney, south west Ireland, and shipped into Grangemouth for onsite construction and entry into ...
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The world’s largest container ship, the 21,413teu OOCL Hong Kong, made its maiden call in Felixstowe on 22 June.
Trumping the call by the 20,568teu Madrid Maersk, operated on the 2M NEU2 Asia to Europe service, a few days earlier, the call also marked the return of OOCL to the UK’s ...
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PD Ports contract manager, Tracy Ward took the Above and Beyond Freight Award – sponsored by Eddie Stobart – at the 2017 FTA everywoman in Transport and Logistics Awards in London on 21 June.
Ward joined PD Ports in 2015 as an administration manager but just 12 months later, was promoted ...
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The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) says that companies are increasingly being asked if they are Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs) when bidding to become preferred suppliers. CILT says it now urging Government and the profession to wake up to the advantage of being an AEO.
The Institute is now ...
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