August 2017

Early Christmas for Southampton

CMA CGM’s seasonal SEANE (South East Asia Northern Europe) service made its first UK port of call on 11 August at DP World Southampton. The new service caters to the ‘Christmas peak’ and provides the only direct call from Jakarta, Indonesia to UK and northern Europe. Southampton is the first port of call in North Europe. [+]

New London Gateway/South America service

MSC and Hapag Lloyd are introducing a new service between South America’s east coast and Northern Europe, improving port coverage and transit times. The new NWC/SAEC service will call at London Gateway and ports in North-West Europe, Rio Sepetiba, Santos, Navegantes, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Navegantes, Paranagua and returning ... [+]

Flying horses take off from Budapest

Fourteen racehorses bred in Hungary were flown to China last week, on board a Cargolux Boeing 747. The Friesian and Shagya Arabian mounts  took off from Budapest Airport in special freight containers, accompanied by a team of carers and vets, on their way to a new owner, via Luxembourg. Horse ... [+]

Pentalver starts work on London Gateway upgrade

Pentalver Transport has started work on phase two of its container facility at DP World London Gateway Berth Seven, the first phase of which opened in 2015. The second phase will add 40% more capacity. It follows yesterday's announcement by logistics company Wincanton that is to build a 2.5-acre container haulage ... [+]

DFDS upgrades sideport and container services

DFDS has enhanced its container and sideport services between Immingham UK, Norway, Germany and Belgium in response to increased demand. From mid-August DFDS direct and loop sailings will connect Immingham with Hamburg, Zeebrugge, Fredrikstad and Oslo, whilst UK-Norway capacity will be doubled. The Norway port has also been switched from Moss ... [+]

Emirates offers all-weather protection

Emirates SkyCargo is offering a new white cover solution for temperature-controlled shipments in collaboration with DuPont. It uses Tyvek Xtreme W50 material, an enhaced version of DuPont’s existing Tyvek high density polyethylene material already used in Emirates SkyCargo’s White Cover and White Cover Advanced services to offer more robust protection ... [+]

Wincanton to open London Gateway container base

Largest UK logistics company Wincanton is to build a 2.5-acre container haulage base at DP World London Gateway. It will be operational from early 2018. The site will provide truck parking and office facilities housing an on-site operations team. Wincanton managing director for industrial and transport, Chris Fenton, said: “We’ve been moving ... [+]

Updated-2: UK ‘could stay in EU Common Transit Convention’ to speed intra-Ireland freight

The UK government has suggested that the UK could remain part of the EU Common Transit Convention to help smooth the flow of freight between Ulster and the Republic of Ireland, the BBC reports. In its second paper published in three days on suggested post-Brexit customs arrangements, this time on the ... [+]

Canada test-bed for new airfreight programme

The new IATA-FIATA Air Cargo Program (IFACP), which aims to modernised relations between airlines and forwarders, has been pilot-launched in Canada It will be rolled out globally following the Canadian pilot, replacing the existing Cargo Agency Program, and will be jointly managed by forwarders and airlines as equal partners in the ... [+]

BA to go down home

IAG Cargo/British Airways is to launch a London Heathrow to Nashville service in May 2018. It will operate five times a week with a Boeing 787-8, bringing the total number of IAG Cargo-operated US gateways to 24. The aircraft will offer a cargo payload of up to 15 tonnes per flight. IAG ... [+]

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