August 2017

BDP opens Peru office

Logistics firm BDP International has opened a new office in Paita, Peru’s main northern port. It is BDP’s second location in the country, joining its Lima office which opened in December 2016. [+]

Hellmann restructures

The Hellmann Worldwide Logistics Group was restructured into a parent holding company and the three divisions - Air & Sea, Road & Rail and Contract Logistics, operating as legally independent subgroups from 1 August. Previously, the group had largely been organised geographically. [+]

Irish PM calls for UK customs union

Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar called for an EU-UK custom union and a transition period after Brexit during a visit to Ulster on 4 August. He suggested that it could be run along similar lines to the arrangement between the EU and Turkey, he said in a speech at Queen’s ... [+]

Fruit firm takes London Gateway lease

Fruit importer SH Pratt Group is to take a lease on a bespoke temperature-controlled distribution facility at DP World London Gateway. The Luton-based firm will site its new ‘Halo’ multi-temperature operation at the site. The facility on the port logistics park's west zone will have regimes from frozen to ambient ... [+]

Panalpina could be takeover target, say analysts – updated

International freight forwarder Panalpina could find itself the subject of a takeover bid, say two city analysts in a report. David Kerstens and Hamish Dalgarno – respectively, equity analyst and equity associate at investment banker Jefferies International – say that the Swiss-based company’s performance has been below par lately, which ... [+]

Brexit could harm Welsh ports, says report

A Welsh assembly committee report has repeated earlier warnings that Brexit could hit the country’s ports particularly badly. It said that there could be long delays and tailbacks at Holyhead and elsewhere if traffic to and from Ireland had to undergo customs clearance. The cross-party external affairs committee added that it ... [+]

CCS-UK to speed cargo through Heathrow

The CCS-UK airfreight community user group has launched a new module that it sways will speed cargo through at Heathrow Airport’s transit sheds. CCS-UK Advanced Info will allow freight agents, and their transport providers, to send advance information and alerts to handling agents and to submit Electronic Consignment Security Declarations (eCSDs). Information ... [+]

Kuehne + Nagel opens Panama site

Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new site in the Colon Free Zone in Panama to carry out reception, storage and distribution for the Unicomer store group. The forwarder said the location, the second largest free trade zone in the world would also facilitate the access to new markets. [+]

Polferries ‘in talks with Ramsgate port’

Polferries is in talks with Thanet council about possible services from the Port of Ramsgate, reports the kentonline.co.uk website. The Gdansk-based company currently operates three multipurpose ferries between Poland and Scandinavia. However, the website states that while talks with the council have taken place, the true extent of its interest ... [+]

Germany’s Kukla to rival JF Hillebrand

German-owned freight forwarder Robert Kukla has launched a UK beverage logistics subsidiary and has recruited a team from of rival operator, JF Hillebrand. The Brentwood, north-east London-based company will be led by managing director, Steve Wood (Pictured second from left and below), along with commercial director Lynda Simms, operations director Martin ... [+]

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