February 2019
Maersk subsidiary Hamburg Süd will demonstrate its future Remote Container Management system at the Fruit Logistica trade show in Berlin on 6-8 February. In recent months, all the line’s refrigerated boxes have been fitted with the technology which uses satellite and mobile radio technology to monitor containers and the condition of the cargo inside including its location, temperature profile, relative humidity, and concentrations of oxygen and CO2. Certain settings can ...
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Panalpina’s largest shareholder, the Ernst Goehner Foundation, which owns nearly 46 percent of the Swiss forwarder, has rejected an offer from rival DSV. Foundation board member Thomas Gutzwiller said on 4 February that Panalpina would be better served by its consolidator strategy “than the published non-binding purchase offer from DSV”.
The ...
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MASkargo, the cargo division of Malaysia Airlines, is to use Cloud-based Unisys logistics solutions Digi-IQ and Digi-Portal to provide visibility of shipments and attract more bookings. Digi-IQ automatically builds a route map for each shipment based on origin, destination, product, station operating hours, aircraft types and other factors and then ...
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Handling and airfreight services company dnata has increased its ownership in two of its Dubai-based joint venture companies. It has purchased a 50% stake in Dubai Express Freightworks and a 25.5% stake in Bolloré Logistics, UAE from Kanoo Group. It is now the sole owner of Dubai Express Freightworks and ...
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The government laid a road haulage statutory instrument in Parliament on 5 February to ensure UK law operates effectively if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. The government will continue to license UK hauliers to the same standards as at present, and will require foreign hauliers operating in ...
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Hapag-Lloyd says it will be the first operator in the world to convert large container ship to use liquefied national gas (LNG). It plans to retrofit the 15,000teu Sajir, one 17 vessels in the fleet designed to be LNG-ready, to operate using either LNG or low-sulphur fuel oil. The conversion ...
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Start-up art logistics company Convelio has raised €1.85 million in funding in nine months after its creation. The Paris-headquartered company has also opened a UK office in London.
Founders Edouard Gouin and Clément Ouizille, said an “exceptional investment” by Global Founders Capital and several other business angels, would accelerate the company’s ...
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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has released details of the arrangements to clear goods through the UK’s ferry ports in the event of a No Deal Brexit on 29 March, including transitional simplified procedures and temporary arrangements to allow most to leave UK port or shuttle terminals before ‘arriving’ the ...
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Holiday and cargo airline TUI has handed all its freight activity to ECS Group under a Total Cargo Management (TCM) contract. TUI includes five airlines, owns 150 mostly 787 aircraft, serves over 300 destinations in 75 countries through three main hubs in Florida, the Caribbean/Dominican Republic and Mexico (Cancún). Specialist ...
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Chair of the Road Freight and Logistics All-Party Parliamentary Group and former Government Minister Sir Mike Penning MP will address the Microlise Transport Conference on 15 May. He will outline the aims and objectives of the new group, formed in partnership with the Road Haualage Association (RHA) as well as ...
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