June 2018
BIFA director-general Robert Keen has sounded a note of caution over the recent vote by MPs in favour of a third Heathrow runway. He said: “Whilst BIFA welcomes the positive news from Parliament…the obstacles that the project still faces leave me with a certain sense of foreboding whether the spades will ever hit the ground.
“Detailed plans will still need to be drawn up, and will again have to go out ...
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PD Ports has appointed Fargo Systems to provide transport management solutions to its logistics arm. PD Ports will be using the TOPS transport management system for functions including job planning and booking to routing vehicles and invoicing. A trial of the platform is currently in progress following which full roll ...
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DB Schenker and partners MAN Truck & Bus and Hochschule Fresenius University of Applied have put two digitally networked (‘platooned’) trucks into operation. They set off from the DB Schenker branch office in Neufahrn near Munich via the A9 to Nuremberg. Unladen trials will be carried out until early August ...
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Panalpina has launched a Digital Hub to embrace new technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. The new business unit, which reports directly to chief executive Stefan Karlen, will explore innovative technologies, develop new digital solutions for customers and engage with digital start-up companies.
Karlen said: ...
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Netherlands-based Broekman Logistics has set up a dedicated global air charter desk, managed by industry veteran Ton Smulders. It will offer solutions to time and capacity driven client requests and guarantees the swiftest response time to any request for solutions.
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Warrenpoint Port in Northern Ireland has ordered a Konecranes Gottwald Model 3 mobile harbour crane, due to be delivered in September 2018.
The port handled a record 3.56 million tonnes of cargo in 2017 including grain, timber, steel, cement, ro ro and containers. In its 25-year growth plan it forecasts a ...
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MPs voted 415 to 119 in favour of a third runway at London Heathrow airport on the evening of 25 June, possibly bringing down the curtain on a controversy that has lasted over 20 years.
Conservative MPs were forced to support the government plan although Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who as ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has opened its first regional Logistics Control Centre in South & Central America, in Bogotá, Colombia. It will provide customers with tailored solutions, focusing on cost efficiency, reducing complexity and increasing supply chain performance.
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One of the two new E-Flexer RoPax ferries bound for the Belfast – Liverpool route in 2020 held its official keel-laying at the AVIC shipyard in Weihai, China. The new vessels will have a capacity of 3 100 freight lane metres, along with 1 000 passengers and 120 cars.
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X2 Logistics Networks has launched X2 Asia Global, a logistics network designed to provide forwarders there international partners and freight forwarders outside the region. It will be headed by Shane Hebzynski
www.x2asiaglobal.com.
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