November 2020
Hutchison Ports has set out its vision for a new freeport, focusing on Felixstowe and Harwich International Port, as part of the government’s consultations to create up to ten such hubs in the UK.
Freeport East would be a manufacturing, green energy and innovation hub that would build on existing road and rail links to the Midlands and the North of England.
It would take advantage of the latest advances in digital ...
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There will inevitably be some disruption to freight moving through the Channel ports says Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove. He told the Logistics UK Get Ready for Brexit online seminar on 25 November that while work was going on to eliminate as many risks as possible, his ...
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Companies ending food products from mainland Great Britain to Northern Ireland could face a mass of paperwork, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove told the Logistics UK Get Ready for Brexit online seminar on 25 November.
Asked about the current status of the Retailer Movement Scheme that would govern ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo and DSV have partnered to donate freight capacity to charities fighting the Covid pandemic. They have pledged to carry 1 million kilos of humanitarian aid and medical supplies across the world free of charge between July and the end of 2020, distributed between the airline’s customers who ...
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Davies Turner has promoted Tony Cole to head of ocean to lead on its ocean freight forwarding services. He replaces Kieron Larkin who is to lead a strategic review of the company’s computer systems and software that will underpin all its freight forwarding services. Cole joined Davies Turner in 1990 ...
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The Motorway Buddy app overnight truck parking app has been enhanced with Police theft and vehicle interference data to identify safer options.
The upgrade has been made possible by a unique partnership between Motorway Buddy, freight industry insurer TT Club and NaVCIS Freight, part of the Police National Vehicle Crime Intelligence ...
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ABP’s Port of Cardiff has signed a new lease to provide secure storage for with fuel distribution company, Greenergy. The one acre site will be used by Greenergy’s in-house logistics haulage operation, Greenergy Flexigrid, to provide fuel and distribution services to a wide range of customers in the rail and ...
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The decline in cargo in at the port of Hamburg in the third quarter was 8%, considerably less than in the second, it said. Container throughput was down only 4.9%, to 2.3m teu in the third quarter. Port of Hamburg Marketing says that the results in the third quarter give ...
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Forwarding and logistics company CH Robinson has signed a partnership with Microsoft Corporation to address logistics challenges for fresh produce in the UK.
It will bring together CH Robinson’s Navisphere platform, which supports some 119,000 customers globally including UK-based fresh produce suppliers, and Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to increase efficiency and ...
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Pall-Ex Group has appointed former DSV sales and marketing director, Sebastian Plesiński as its managing director in Poland. He brings 20 years’ logistics and international business experience to the role, including boosting his former employer’s revenue by over 50% in five years and turning it into one of the five ...
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