November 2020

Abu Dhabi group to deliver millions of vaccines worldwide

Etihad Cargo, Abu Dhabi Ports Group, temperature-controlled container specialist SkyCell and healthcare purchasing organisation Rafed have created the Hope Consortium to facilitate Covid-19 vaccine distribution across the world. Members have pooled their expertise to provide logistics services to handle over six billion doses from the vaccines being developed and manufactured around the world in cold and ultra-cold conditions in 2021, rising to over three times the number by the end of ... [+]

Palletways staff get to grips with customs

Imperial Group's Palletways subsidiary has partnered with the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce to develop and deliver certified and fully accredited trade training on Brexit for internal staff and its network of over 115 UK members. The digitally-delivered training provides an understanding of what Brexit will mean for the logistics ... [+]

Multimodal put back to June 2021

The Multimodal freight conference and exhibition has been postponed for a third time  – to 22-24 June. The event at Birmingham NEC was originally planned for June 2020 but was then postponed to November 2020, and then again  to March 2021, due to the Covid-129 crisis. The organisers said they would continue ... [+]

IAG returns to Seoul

IAG Cargo has restarted its Heathrow – Seoul-Incheon service, three times a week using 787 aircraft. The route carries a significant amount of pharma exports, on IAG Cargo’s Constant Climate service. [+]

AV Dawsons safety efforts recognised

AV Dawson’s Port of Middlesbrough says it has become the first port to achieve Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)Earned Recognition status. Operators must demonstrate that they have robust systems and processes that promote effective and proactive transport management and the scheme allows DVSA to remotely monitor operators’ compliance systems. [+]

Astral ready to bring vaccine to Africa

Pan-African cargo airline Astral Aviation says it is ready to support the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines across its network of 15 scheduled and 50 charter destinations using its fleet of 14 freighters. Chief executive Sanjeev Gadhia said that Astral has played an important role in immunization programmes including supporting efforts to ... [+]

We’re on top of things, say ports

The UK Major Ports Group said that its members were currently coping with the surge in containers although they were very busy. Some ports were seeing 20% more activity than they did last November but were redeploying resources and utilising extra capacity. Its comments come after reports of serious congestion at ... [+]

Another green power project for PD Ports

PD Ports has signed an agreement with Wentworth Clean Power to bring a second waste-to-energy plant to the Tees Valley. The £430 million, 30-acre project will also be based at Teesport Commerce Park, with an annual capacity of 250,000 tonnes of specialist feedstocks and generating enough power for over 16,000 ... [+]

North and south by rail and water

P&O Ferrymasters has launched a new multimodal service from Italy to Norway. It uses rail links between terminals in northern Italy and the ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Moerdijk in the Netherlands with shipping services from there Tananger, Bergen and Ålesund in western Norway. Other ports can be also used ... [+]

More land for Leith offshore work

Forth Ports is making a seven figure privately funded investment at Leith to bring an additional 25 hectares of land to market for the offshore renewables sector. It will include final demolition of the Imperial Grain Silo. Leith has a key role in supporting EDF Renewables’ and ESB’s major offshore wind ... [+]

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