October 2020
Online retailer AliExpress’ Cainiao Smart Logistics Network arm and its last-mile launched a new international air-freight route in August to speed up average delivery times between China and Europe by over 30%. It has also launched new service to help deliver big ticket items such asfurniture and motorcycles - over four meters long or wide or weighing more than 300kg.
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Europa Worldwide Group has recruited its 1000th employee – customs declarant Caolan Watts-Adams, at its newly created Customs Department in Dartford. The new team has been developed as part of the logistics firm's Brexit preparations, with 16 people so far employed to manage the import customs clearance process for consignments ...
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Banana importer Compagnie Fruitière UK has taken occupation of a 69,718 sq ft ripening facility at DP World London Gateway. It will replace its existing operation in Dartford and is expected to be fully operational by 2021.
Compagnie Fruitière managing director Keith Sadler, said: “The port centric location, combined with the ...
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Etihad Cargo has approved CSafe’s RAP temperature-controlled container to carry cargo on its flights. It will be introduced across all Etihad Cargo’s wide-body passenger and freighter services and will deliver additional payload protection for large pharmaceutical shipments, says the Middle East carrier.
The CSafe RAP uses innovative heating and compressor-driven cooling ...
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A deal is vital for the transport and logistics industry and for the whole economy, said Logistics UK in response to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s statement that the UK should prepare itself for a no-deal Brexit. “To keep Britain trading, trucks must keep going through the borders with the least ...
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Geodis has reached an agreement with Innova Capital for the acquisition of one of Poland’s major road freight operators, Pekaes. Originally a state-owned firm, Pekaes operates a full- and less-than-truckload FTL and LTL network in Poland for palletized freight with 20 branches and has 10,000 domestic and international customers. The ...
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P&O European Ferries pledged to maintain freight services on the Hull-Zeebrugge route, but it will axe the passenger service. Consultation has started over redundancies, which will be made from November.
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Failure to negotiate a trade agreement between the EU and UK “will deliver a deep, sharp shock to the movement of goods between Britain and Ireland”, warned FTAI Ireland (FTAI) general manager, Aidan Flynn.
Commenting on the Irish Government’s 2021 budget on 14 October, he said that such a scenario would ...
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The government has signed agreements with four ferry operators to provide capacity equivalent to over 3,000 HGVs per week at the end of the Brexit transition period. They will provide space to keep essential food and medical supplies moving in the face of possible disruption after the UK leaves the ...
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Brittany Ferries’ new Galicia ship visited Portsmouth on 13 October for berthing trials ahead of her entry into service in December.
She is the longest ship ever in the Brittany Ferries fleet at 215m, with 3km of lane metres for freight and passenger traffic. She is the first new ship to ...
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