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December 2020

Kerry to open duty free zone

Kerry Logistics Network is to develop a bonded logistics centre in the Haikou Integrated Free Trade Zone in Hainan Free Trade Port in China. The 50,000sq m facility, expected to be complete in early 2023, will include 10,000sq m of cold storage. In the future, imported goods bought by Hainan residents will be exempt from import tariffs, VAT and sales tax. Imported goods with over 30% value-added processing in the ... [+]

CILT calls in RAC man

RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding is to become the new president of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK for 2021. He will promote CILT as the essential home for those involved in the movement of goods and people, and their associated supply chains and will build on ... [+]

Airfield could handle Cairnryan overflow

Transport Scotland says it is in talks to turn Castle Kennedy Airfield into an emergency lorry park in case of delays at Cairnryan port, according to a report by PA Media. The agency has an agreement in principle with Stair Estates to use the general aviation airport for overflow parking if ... [+]

DP World and Ferrymasters offer port-centric solution

P&O Ferrymasters and its parent company DP World have completed their first common carrier agreement, integrating their global maritime and logistics services into a ‘port centric’ proposition. It follows DP World’s acquisition of P&O Ferrymasters in February 2019 and marks the launch of a global rollout of similar agreements, to ... [+]

XPO goes the extra mile in Spain

XPO Logistics has signed an agreement with consumer electronics distributor MediaMarkt Iberia to provide last mile deliveries of large products in Spain. Home delivery of heavy or bulky products is handled by 60 depots in XPO’s Spanish network and the service includes installation, as well as the removal and recycling ... [+]

Good harvest for IAG

IAG Cargo said on 16 December that it had transported record numbers of Argentinean and Chilean cherries this season so far with charters from Santiago de Chile to London Heathrow. Since the season started in late October, it has already transported over 1,000 tonnes of cherries from Latin America to ... [+]

Heathrow third runway clears court hurdle

The Supreme Court has overturned an Appeal Court ruling that the third runway at Heathrow Airport failed to meet environmental targets, clearing another hurdle for the controversial scheme. However, the plan still faces a public enquiry, a decision by the Planning Inspectorate and final government approval, before being allowed to ... [+]

Stockholm Norvik now fully open

Stockholm’s new Norvik Port is now fully open, says Ports of Stockholm. It includes a container terminal that opened in May and a ro ro terminal that opened in November. Construction started in 2016 and, despite its size and complexity, and the covid 19 pandemic, the port was completed on ... [+]

DHL goes into orbit

DHL Global Forwarding can legitimately say that it sending goods into space after signing a partnership with space mission company, D-Orbit. They will help the ION Satellite Carrier on its journey into space. planned to launch at Cape Canaveral in Florida in January 2021. ION Satellite Carrier is a cargo vehicle ... [+]

Forwarders see red over shipping surcharge

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says its members are exasperated by the news of  an ‘Emergency Space Surcharge’ by one of the world’s leading container shipping companies. It will apply from South East India ports to the North Continent, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Red Sea and Latin America. BIFA director general ... [+]

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