July 2017

Europa on the acuisition trail

Groupage operator Europa Worldwide Group says it wants to acquire more companies, According to the company, in the last two years it has been focused upon building daily services from Dartford to around 30 European hubs and now that that project is nearing completion, it is planning to start developing additional lines to the continent directly from its ten regional depots. Acquiring a local operator, with existing direct lines would ... [+]

Ethiopian expansion for Aramex

Aramex has signed a master franchise agreement with Ethiopia’s Logix Express, its 23rd African country. Aramex Ethiopia will open five more outlets in Addis Ababa by August 2017, increasing its total in the city to ten. Outside the capital, where the company currently operates in Dire Dawa and Hawassa it ... [+]

Ekol plans Greek spending scheme

Turkey’s Ekol Logistics says it plans to invest over €2 million to improve facilities in the port of Lavrio and a further €1m to create its own national distribution fleet in the country. It is also planning to offer a rail connection to Europe via Lavrio, Thessaloniki and Aspropyrgos. [+]

Brexit – the real work starts now

Comment s by EU negotiator Michel Barnier in which he predicted that there would be full inspection of all loads from the UK entering Europe after Brexit should act as a wake-up call, said Freight Transport Association (FTA) deputy chief executive of the James Hookham. Commenting ahead of a meeting between ... [+]

Staffs rail freight scheme under scrutiny

Developer Four Ashes is holding a public consultation on its planned rail freight interchange in South Staffordshire. The strategic West Midlands Interchange is being proposed for a 297-hectare site at Four Ashes, near to Junction 12 of the M6 and adjacent to the West Coast Main Line. It runs until ... [+]

Record first half for P&O Ferries

P&O FERRIES carried more freight across the English Channel in the first six months of 2017 than in any first half of the year in its modern history. The six ships on the Dover-Calais route transported 710,813 lorries between January and June, up 10.4% on the first half of 2016, ... [+]

Scotland’s Scott McCutcheon wins UKWA award

Bullet Express’ Scott McCutcheon won the Young Employee of the Year title at the UK Warehousing Association Awards 2017. He joined the Glasgow-based firm from school at the age of 17 as a telesales executive but when Bullet moved to a new 200,000 sq ft site, he was given the ... [+]

Peel brings Scots site to market

Real estate firm JLL has been appointed to market a new multimodal centre at Hunterston Port and Resource Centre (PARC) on the west coast of Scotland. PARC comprisess the Hunterston Bulk Terminal, a functioning port facility currently handling coal and other resources; the Hunterston Marine Yard with one of the ... [+]

Logistics firms test the waters with wine shipment

Drinks logistics specialist JF Hillebrand and Groupe InterRail have moved a test shipment of French wine by rail from Duisburg in Germany) to Yiwu (China), a distance of 11 400km, crossing six countries. Data from the trial, unveiled the Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017 show, confirmed how exposed containers shipped by rail compared ... [+]

EU to sign Japan free trade pact

In an apparent rebuke to anti-globalisation politicians such as Donald Trump and pro-Brexit factions in the UK, EU and Japan said on 6 July that they were poised to sign an historic free trade agreement. The deal, endorsed by Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe and EU leaders should open up ... [+]

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