July 2020
The Port of Dover has revealed plans for a ‘virtual’ freeport zone in its response to the Government’s Freeports Consultation, which is due to close on 13 July.
The Global Trade and Innovation Zone (GTI) Zone will connect the Port of Dover with key manufacturing hubs alongside regeneration sites and iInitial estimates by economic consultancy Oxera suggest that by enabling just one of the regeneration sites already identified to reach its potential, ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group has appointed Konstantin Vekshin as chief commercial officer. He joined the group in 1997 and since August 2018 has held the position of executive president, charter cargo operations. His objectives will be to implement the marketing directive and sales plan, in addition to the centralisation and digitalisation of ...
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Turkish Cargo has also gone live with CARGY, a new artificial intelligence robot that lets customers find out the status of their cargo 24/7. It is available at the WhatsApp number of 0850 333 0777 with Turkish and English language options.
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John Slater is retiring from Globelink Fallow on 31 July after over 50 years in the industry. He was one of the Romford-based consolidator’s best-known faces, particularly in the North of England and the Midlands, where he worked on the sales team for over 20 years.
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Iarnród Éireann (Irish Railways - IE) is to apply for planning permission for a major transformation of its port of Rosslare in southern Ireland.Rosslare Europort will see over €30 million invested over the next five years including a reconfiguration of the port along with new facilities and infrastructure. One berth ...
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DAMCO, the forwarding arm of the AP Moller Group has developed a new app for Nestlé Nutrition‘s Wyeth Nutrition division to digitise shipment processing of its infant formula consignments globally. It allows truck drivers to record and report on all of Wyeth’s local container transport movements, as well as to ...
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IAG Cargo has launched a Forward.Platinum loyalty programme that rewards customers with a revenue spend of over €1.3m a year. It joins IAG Cargo’s FORWARD.REWARDS scheme for smaller customers. Forward.Platinum membership is by invitation only and allows customers to redeem loyalty points for flights with British Airways and Iberia or ...
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DHL Global Forwarding has been recertified to IATA’s CEIV Pharma Standard. It covers stations around the world, including Barcelona, Bogota, Tokyo, and Chicago.
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The time:matters high speed logistics arm of the Lufthansa group has set up a US subsidiary in Miami. It will offer transport solutions for time-critical and sensitive shipments and support local network partners with a team of English, German and Spanish speakers.
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Less than one thousandth of 1% of the roughly 226 million containers currently shipped each year go overboard, according to the World Shipping Council’s update to its survey and estimate of containers lost at sea. According to the 2020 update of the survey of WSC member companies, first carried out ...
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