October 2019
Maritime Transport has put two new Konecranes straddle carriers into operation at its Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal (BIFT). With a four-high capacity they will provide faster, more reliable loading and unloading containers.
Maritime acquired BIFT in 2014 as part of the Roadways Container Logistics deal, and has grown the terminal’s operation from one daily service to five. It says that turnaround times are some of the best in the industry.
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Ceva Logistics has appointed Niels van Namen as Global Head of Healthcare Business Development. His previous positions include business development director healthcare for DSV and VP healthcare Europe for UPS' Healthcare and Life Science Sector.
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FedEx Express has expanded its Asia Pacific to Europe International Economy service to include Malta, Bulgaria and Cyprus and International Economy Freight option to Romania and Estonia. FedEx International Economy service is described as an affordable, cross-border, customs-cleared, door-to-door service.
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German forwarder Dachser’s new northwest England terminal in Rochdale is fully operational, replacing an existing facility.
The 3.7 hectare (9.2 acre) site £14.4 million and offers 49 dock loading doors and an additional four level access doors.
Managing director, Dachser UK, Mark Rollinson commented: “We have an optimistic view on the future ...
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Dublin-based Toga Freight Services has signed a deal with Germany’s Loxx Logistics GmbH. Headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, near Essen in the heart of the Rhine-Ruhr industrial belt, Loxx - established in 1977, has almost 600 staff across Germany and Europe including over 370 at the Gelsenkirchen logistics hub. There are also ...
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DP World inaugurated its Kigali Logistics Platform in the presence of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame and DP World chairman and chief executive Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem. The facility has been operational since September 2018 in test mode, and has an annual capacity of 50,000teu. DP World says it could ...
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Wincanton is considering a bid for multimodal transport and logistics operator Eddie Stobart. However, Stobart’s largest shareholder DBAY Advisors is also considering a bid. It follows a troubled time for Eddie Stobart. Chief executive Alex Laffey stood down in the summer following an accounting error that overstated profits by £2 ...
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Ocean Network Express (ONE) members K Line, Mitsui OSK NYK have begun sharing perational data. The Ship Data Center IoS-Open Platform carries out data conversion. ONE aims to use this data to improve the accuracy of performance evaluations and to achieve safer and more efficient vessel operations.
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IAG Cargo has chosen with AllRead MLT, which has developed cost-efficient software that simplifies data extraction using machine learning technology for cargo as one of the winners of its Hangar 51 global innovation programme. AllRead will be embedded in the programme for 10 weeks where it will work side by ...
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Brexit could lead to delays to freight and increased smuggling of goods and people, according to a National Audit Office report published on 16 October, barely two weeks before the official date on which the UK is due to leave the European Union.
NAO says that the government accepts that the ...
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