January 2020
Europa Worldwide Group has appointed Chris Mitchell as head of IT. He previously held a similar position at a major Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) provider in the hospitality and retail sector. He will be responsible for Europa’s IT helpdesk and infrastructure teams and is already involved in launching the 3PL warehousing and logistics facility at Midlands Logistics Park in Corby, Northants, which is set to open next year.
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Digital freight forwarding company InstaFreight is partnering with Shell to expand its services to carriers in Europe, after raising investment from the energy multinational’s Shell Ventures arm.
Berlin-based InstaFreight aims to use digitalization to simplify the freight forwarding business and provide practical benefits to shippers and carriers including fast and convenient ...
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Eurotunnel freight traffic was down 7% in December 2019, at 121,939 vehicles, compared with the same month last year and 6% down for the year as a whole (1.6 million). Owner Getlink blamed the difficult economic and political context, including the French Customs officers’ strike, uncertainty over Brexit and the ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has welcomed the Government’s announcement that it will expand access to the apprenticeship service to employers beyond the existing 22,000 apprenticeship levy-payers, saying that it will be of great benefit to many of its members.
Director general Robert Keen explains that 90% of BIFA corporate ...
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Storm Brendan could not prevent Stena Line’s newest ferry Stena Estrid making its maiden voyage this morning on 13 January on the Holyhead to Dublin route.
After more than six years’ in planning and construction, Estrid braved the challenging conditions to set sail from Holyhead at 10.55am, arriving in Dublin shortly after 2.30pm where it received a traditional maritime water cannon salute.
She is the first of three next generation Stena Line RoPax vessels ...
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ABP’s Port of Southampton has made Southampton Sight its Charity of the Year for 2020.
The charity, based on Bassett Avenue, works with people living with sight loss by providing information, equipment or visual aids, arranging volunteers or offering emotional reassurance.
It was chosen following a vote by ABP employees. Each year ...
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The Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) has called on the European Commission to change its criteria for allowing shipping line consortia.
The EU Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER), which allows shipping lines to exchange information and to co-operate, is due to expire in April and the Commission is currently assessing responses to ...
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Cardinal Maritime Groups’s project freight arm Origin Logistics UK, has been rebranded as ‘Cardinal - The Logistics People’. In the early stages of the development of Manchester-based Cardinal Maritime, it was decided that the projects and specialist freight services division should be branded separately and has since 2006 been known as ...
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The Freight Transport Association’s Northern Ireland policy manager Seamus Leheny, has welcomed the news that the province’s administration in Stormont is to sit again. He said it would bring logistics businesses “long-overdue reassurance that the sector’s concerns, and the future of NI trade, can once again be prioritised by government”.
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Like the shy and secretive badger after which it is named, the infrastructure put in place for the Operation Brock scheme to keep traffic flowing on Kent’s motorways has proved to be an elusive beast.
A few months after the steel barrier on the London-bound carriageway of the M20 was completed ...
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