August 2017
The Freight Transport Association Ireland (FTAI) is calling on the government not to increase diesel fuel duty for commercial vehicles in the October 2018 Budget and keep the country’s logistics sector competitive post-Brexit. FTAI general manager Aidan Flynn says fuel now represents a third of the total cost of the operation of an articulated lorry. Additional increases in fuel costs would need to be passed on to customers, which could mean ...
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The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has published a 'Positioning Paper' on how the supply chain sector can work with Customs (HMRC) to ensure that post-Brexit excise legislation does not place an unfair burden on legitimate logistics companies and to keep them competitive.
UKWA's chief executive officer, Peter Ward, said it was important ...
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Deutsche Post DHL’s eCommerce arm has opened an Indian distribution centre in Delhi. The new facility allows DHL eCommerce to provide online retailers services such as DHL Parcel International Direct which offers transit times of four to seven days to the UK, US and Australia.
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Airfreight and express wholesaler AMI has launched, Click2ship Express Imports, an express import version of its existing South Africa export service. It provides online quotes and bookings for imports from anywhere in the world with prices that include collection at origin, export customs entries, freight, customs clearance on arrival and ...
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Real estate firm Colliers International says that businesses will soon have to resort to building their own factories and warehouses in Scotland.
Prime industrial rents for 10-50,000 sq ft units have risen three times faster year on year than the UK average as the lack of building activity forces businesses to ...
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UK-based freighter operator CargoLogicAir (CLA) has chosen Mexico city as the destination for first scheduled cargo route on 19 August.
The twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 flights will operate from Stansted on Wednesday and Saturday to Mexico City Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the US. The full routing of the aircraft also takes ...
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SEKO Logistics is helping Peak Scientific to optimise its supply chain with visibility, reporting and cost saving solutions, and says that seafreight can give quicker response than airfreight. Peak Scientific, designs, manufactures and supports gas generators for laboratories, is now using in-territory stock in China and the US, sending products ...
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Wheeled cargo and project freight specialist WWL ALS has taken over WSS Nordic’s logistics office in Bergen, Norway, a company with which it has worked for many years. The new combined company will offer chartering, project logistics and freight forwarding solutions by: air, sea and road, as well as super ...
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Europa Worldwide Group managing director Andrew Baxter (pictured) says he plans to expand the Dartford-headquartered company “by buying a £20-60m turnover freight business within the next 12 months”.
Setting out the operator’s plans, he said his goal was then to hit the £200m turnover mark by the end of next year.
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The new Forth road crossing will officially open on 30 August, said the Scottish government. However, it will then close again on 2-3 September for the Queensferry Crossing Experience, when members of the public – chosen by ballot - have the unique opportunity to walk across it. From 6 September ...
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