November 2020
Emirates SkyCargo is now using its Airbus A380 aircraft on cargo charter operations. The first dedicated Emirates A380 ‘mini-freighter’ moved medical supplies between Seoul and Amsterdam via Dubai. The carrier’s engineering and flight operations teams have optimised the aircraft to safely transport around 50 tonnes of cargo per flight in the bellyhold of the aircraft. It is now working on further optimising the capacity of the Airbus A380 through measures ...
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Short-sea line Unifeeder is to add a Tilbury call to its weekly Rotterdam/Portugal service. The service calls at Lisbon and Leixoes. First departure from Lisbon us on Wednesday 25 November, arriving in Tilbury the following Monday.
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Kerry Logistics has taken the Airfreight Business of the Year title at Logistics UK’s 2020 Logistics Awards, sponsored by Port of Dover.
Other winners at the awards, which celebrate supply chain leadership and excellence and recognise leaders who have made a significant contribution to the industry, included Stena Line, named Water ...
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German-owned European food logistics company Nagel-Group is to sell its operations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy to Paris-based temperature-controlled specialist STEF Group. STEF Group will acquire five sites in Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, with total turnover of approx. €95m and around 200 employees, subject to approval by the ...
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Government inaction will lead to a wave of bankruptcies in road transport, warns the International Road Transport Union (IRU). Government financial packages are the sector, which will collapse without targeted action. Road transport in are now set to exceed US$1 trillion globally in 2020.
New IRU research to a looming wave ...
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Shipping lines are reluctant to take on UK-bound cargo because of the operational difficulties in UK ports, says freight forwarder Woodland Group. Disruption on the Asia – Europe trade is leading to significant rate increases and surcharges that have driven rates to new heights, it said.
The UK is particularly affected, ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group has appointed Yulia Celetaria as its healthcare director, heading up its global healthcare team that provides logistics solutions for pharmaceutical products. She has worked for group carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines since 2005.
The group has also set a dedicated Vaccine Task Force, which will be fronted head of healthcare APAC ...
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Logistics UK says it is “incredulous” that the government has announced a Business Task Force at such a late stage in the process. With only 34 working days remaining until the end of the Brexit transition period business needs direction and decisions by government, “not another set of meetings,” said ...
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Freight ferry ticket agent Freightlink Solutions has launched CustomsLink, a service that allows traders to deal with post-Brexit transition customs formalities.
It has been designed to support fast-moving ferry and Eurotunnel traffic, such as hauliers, couriers and small traders with multi-drop loads and short lead times. Cloud-based software creates customs documentation, ...
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Pharmaceutical supply chains are about to face their biggest security challenge for a generation as the world prepares for deliveries of the Covid vaccine, says the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA).
With an estimated 7-19 billion doses of the vaccine required to eradicate Covid-19 globally, there will be unprecedented demands but ...
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