May 2020
The British Ports Association (BPA) has welcomed the announcement by the Chancellor on 12 May that the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will be extended for four months until the end of October. It also said that updated social distancing would give businesses a practical framework to continue, or restart, operations, where it is safe to do so.
BPA corporate services manager, Sara Walsh, said: “The announcement regarding furloughing is good ...
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American Airlines has expanded its cargo schedule to provide 140 weekly flights to 15 cities in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Caribbean, up from 80 flights in the previous week. New destinations include daily flights between Chicago and Heathrow, Chicago and Paris, Philadelphia and Rome and Philadelphia and Zurich.
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UK forwarder Davies Turner says that rerouting of several Asia to Europe sailings via the Cape of Good Hope rather than the Suez Canal has boosted business on its Express China Rail service. Much lower fuel bunker prices has seen a sharp upturn in the number of container services being ...
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Palletforce network owner EV Cargo has appointed former senior advisor, Ross Eggleton as executive vice president business development. Long-standing Palletforce directors Dave Holland and Dean Hughes have also been appointed as executive vice presidents of marketing and communications, and information technology respectively.
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DSV has launched an e-Commerce Solutions service aimed at medium-sized companies. It integrates all the solutions an e-Commerce business needs – warehousing, automation, IT solutions and fulfilment – in scalable, multi-user warehouses., building upon the e-Commerce services that DSV already provides, to serve end customers directly. The new service combines ...
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The European Commission has set up an EU Humanitarian Air Bridge to transport humanitarian workers and emergency supplies for the coronavirus response to critical areas of the world.
The first EU flight, operated in cooperation with France departed from Lyon on 8 May transporting 13 tonnes of cargo and around 60 ...
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The heads of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) have called on Customs administrations worldwide to ensure that traffic keeps moving dyring the Covid-19 pandamic.
In a joint statement published on 8 May WCO secretary general Kunio Mikuriya and IRU secretary general Umberto de Pretto ...
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Laminate surface manufacturer Formica Group has signed a deal with Port of Tyne to move its UK import operations to South Shields generating around 500 containers a year, via Felixstowe or Rotterdam before being transferred to South Shields on feeder vessels. Containers will be unloaded into a port warehouse, which ...
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P&O Ferries is planning to make 1,100 staff – a quarter of its workforce – permanently redundant, following a sharp fall in its freight carryings and a near-collapse in its passenger business during the Covid-19 crisis.
The ferry operator, which is owned by the Sovereign State of Dubai, had been in ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is taking its industry training programme online using web-based video conferencing from 1 June.
Over the past month, the association’s four-strong training team has been modifying the course content so that it can be delivered by video conferencing in a virtual classroom setting. All the ...
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