January 2020
Maritime Intermodal has launched a new five-day-a-week rail freight service between Felixstowe and the new East Midlands Gateway EMG).
It has capacity for up to 70 containers, and is Maritime Intermodal’s seventh daily rail freight service, with further services expected to be announced in the coming months.
Maritime’s managing director of intermodal and terminal, John Bailey, said: “We’re delighted to be extending our rail offering with this new service, our first of ...
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Marine insurance expert Peter Lole has died. Born in 1937, in London, he started his 56-year long career with Lloyds broker Holmwoods & Back Manson, before joining the Navy to do his two years’ National Service, when he was involved in the Suez Crisis in 1956.
After returning to Lloyds he ...
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The government appears to be trying to reduce public attention and parliamentary oversight of Brexit, says director of Leeds-based Tudor International Freight, Adam Johnson.
It is abolishing the dedicated Department for Exiting the EU, and the House of Commons Brexit select committee, at the end of this month and, according to ...
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The UK’s ratification in December of the e-CMR protocol will go a long way towards overcoming potential Brexit barriers, says the International Road Transport Union.
The UK is the 24th country to endorse the digital version of the United Nations Convention for the carriage of goods via road offers lower costs, ...
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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and national trade unions have served formal notice on XPO Logistics Europe under the French Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law. They described a company statement saying that XPO believed it had already fulfilled their obligations with a two-page ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has opened a Quality Service Center (QSC) in Mauritius to serve the African market.QSCs gather selected functions from different areas under one roof, and are already established in Atlanta, Suzhou (China), Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai, Bogota, Viña del Mar (Chile) and Santos (Brazil). The QSC in Mauritius will begin its ...
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Geodis says it will further expand its time-definite Road Network (GRN) services in Asia Pacific during 2020.
The service now offers scheduled departures along the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur-Bangkok axis and will now be extended throughout the Southeast Asian landmass.
Trade cooperation within the ASEAN bloc continues to strengthen and e-commerce activity is set ...
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CMA CGM vessel APL Singapura inaugurated ‘cold ironing’ (onshore electric power) facilities at the Port of Dunkerque’s Flandres terminal on 8 January.
By plugging into an onshore electricity supply ships calling at port can shut down their auxiliary engines while still getting the power they need, including maintaining temperature in refrigerated ...
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West Midlands forwarder Millennium Cargo says that it has had difficulty finding space for its customers, despite a recent report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) saying that airfreight demand had seen a prolonged decline over the past year.
Chief executive Chadd Blunt said that air freight remains an integral ...
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SEKO Logistics has bought New York-based freight forwarder and cross-border ecommerce expert, Air-City - its largest-ever acquisition. Air-City has 15 offices worldwide and was among the first freight agents authorized by the China Government in 1994 and holds a certificate of approval for the establishment of enterprises in China. Similar ...
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