January 2020
A European Parliament committee has approved a deal to reform the road transport sector with revised rules for posting of drivers, drivers' rest times and better enforcement of cabotage rules.
The agreement retains existing limits on cabotage of three operations within seven days, but in order to tackle fraud, vehicle tachographs will be used to register border-crossings.
To prevent "systematic cabotage", there will also be a cooling-off period of four days before ...
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Wallenius Wilhelsen has started a new monthly ro ro service from Europe to the west coast of South America. Load ports include Southampton and the service discharges in Callao in Peru, and the Chilean ports of Iquique and San Antonio. The service also calls at Santa Marta and Cartagena in ...
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SEKO Logistics has signed a partnership with Air & Ground World Transport to help create new cross-border growth opportunities for shippers. It will leverage AG Ground’s offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Shenzhen, Guangzhou Manila and Ho Chi Minh City among others and SEKO Logistics’ more than 120 branches ...
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Delta Cargo has introduced a new CarePod carrier for its four-legged passengers that it says will offer a best-in-class travel experience for pets.
It follows five years of research, development and testing, as well as a successful two-month trial, CarePod will be exclusively offered at eight US locations before a phased ...
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The Freight Transport Association is supporting the 2020 Coastlink Conference to help logistics leaders to identify new, innovative means of sea transport, which will be held on 13 and 14 May at The Port House in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. There will be presentations from expert speakers and panel ...
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Ferry booking agent Freightlink says that it has seen strong growth in 2019 despite downward market trends.
In the year up to and including September 2019, overall volumes of accompanied and unaccompanied units using short-sea ferry routes to and from the south east Kent ports and terminals declined by 4.6% - ...
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The Port of Boulogne Calais said it showed i resilience in a 2019 marked by Brexit uncertainty and industrial action by customs officers in the spring.
Despite Brexit uncertainty and a customs officer strike in Spring traffic at Calais held up well at 1 813 067 units (down 4.6%), just 90 ...
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Juneyao Air flights between Manchester and Shanghai are due to start in March, operating three times per week using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. Shanghai will be Manchester’s third route to China; Cathay Pacific launched a Hong Kong route in 2014 with and Hainan Airlines started Beijing flights in 2016.
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Express freight and fast van specialist Simpex Express has acquired Dover-based customs clearance specialist Samphire Cargo. Samphire has been Simpex’s customs agent for the past nine years.
Simpex managing director Simon Beechener commented: “Samphire has supported our express activities outside of the EU which have grown every year. Their customs knowledge ...
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Longoni port on the island of Mayotte between East Africa and Madagscar has introduced France-based MGI’s Ci5 cargo community system.
Following onsite training January, the was a smooth transition from the old AP+ system to Ci5, with MGI bringing over a team to Mayotte to initially train over 20 staff in ...
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