November 2020
Cosco’s intra-European arm Diamond Line has launched a shuttle service between the port of Vado near Genoa and Piraeus, the Chinese line’s main hub Mediterranean hub. It is operated by a 700teu to the new deep sea terminal at Vado Ligure.
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Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss has launched a weekly scheduled groupage service between Vienna and Moscow.
Departures from Vienna are on Fridays with a transit time of four days. Deliveries within Russia will be by partner JDE (Zheldor Ekspeditsiya) which, with 244 locations in the Russian Federation, has one of the largest ...
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Logistics UK (formerly FTAS) has signed a partnership with customs declarations expert AEB, to help members prepare for new trading conditions with the EU. Members will gain discounted access to AEB’s software platform to make it easier to process goods as they transit to and from the EU:
Logistics UK head ...
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FCS Frankfurt Cargo Services has received EU Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification for medical products for human use, a few weeks after gaining IATA CEIV certification.
FCS said it marked an important step in the expansion of pharmaceutical logistics activities and ramping up preparations to handle sensitive coronavirus vaccine consignments.
Unlike CEIV ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group’sAirBridgeCargo Airlines has expanded its partnership with Sonoco ThermoSafe to include the latest design of Pegasus ULD passive container.
The container can maintain internal temperature environment for some period of time without recharging for temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments of up to 998kg in the 2-8°C temperature range.
It has also been designed ...
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Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) Paris Charles de Gaulle pharma centre has been awarded Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification. It follows the achievement of IATA CEIV Pharma certification at the start of 2020.
The GDP process by independent auditing specialists TÜV confirmed the facility’s temperature management capabilities and assessed and approved WFS’ ...
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Allport Cargo Services is to be rebranded to EV Cargo Global Forwarding. As one of five business divisions within global logistics and technology business EV Cargo, it will continue to offer international supply chain services in over 100 markets.
The phased transition to EV Cargo Global Forwarding will be complete by ...
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Royal Schiphol Group has acquired additional shares in community system Cargonaut and the Dutch airport owner now has full ownership of the company.
It says it will now renew Cargonaut’s port community system, incorporating suggestions from its users. Modernisation will take place over the next two years, with all current services ...
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Air France KLM Martinair says its cargo activity continued to strongly perform with revenue at constant currency up 107.6% in the third quarter 2020, with September the fifth consecutive month of improvement.
Cargo capacity has however been down 33.3%, primarily driven by the reduction in belly capacity of passenger aircraft partly ...
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Stena Line is to replace its current vessels on the Travemünde (Germany)-Liepaja (Latvia) route will be replaced with two modern ro pax vessels, adding a further 40% freight capacity, shortening crossing times and offering a fixed timetable with 6 weekly departures in each direction. The new vessels will also offer ...
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