January 2021

ONE adds East Med services

The ONE consortium has added two new direct services from North Europe to the East Med-Levant and Marmara regions, its first direct sailings between the two regions. The North Europe East Mediterranean Express (NEX) calls in Southampton and NW Europe, then Tangier, Malta, Alexandria (Dekheila), Damietta, Beirut, Mersin, Iskenderun and Algeciras before returning to Southampton. The North Europe Turkey Express (NTX) calls at Southampton and NW Europe followed by Malta, Gebze, Istanbul ... [+]

DFDS freight up in December

DFDS’s freight volumes jumped 27.9% to 3.594 million lane meters in December 2020, compared with the same month in 2019. However, traffic for the full year in  2020 was down 1% on 2019, at 40.886m lm. DFDS said its North Sea volumes were boosted by stock building ahead of Brexit, ... [+]

Second LNG ship for Brittany Ferries

Brittany Ferries' latest LNG-powered ferry, Salamanca, was launched at the CMJL shipyard in Weihai, China, on 6 January. Due to enter service in Spring 2020, she is the second of three E-Flexer class ships ordered by Brittany Ferries and will join sister-ship Galicia, which went into service in December 2020. A ... [+]

Parcels firms ‘struggling to cope’ with new customs rules

Brexit delays and costs are escalating rapidly, warns the international courier services expert ParcelHero. The parcel comparison site says couriers and retailers are now struggling with the burden of customs clearances, with 20% of parcels and the same proportion of trucks being stopped at some ports.It said that after quiet ... [+]

Swiss steps up Heathrow capacity

Swiss WorldCargo is now offering three widebody A330-300 flights a week between its Zurich hub and London Heathrow as part of an expansion of its European network. It also has regular narrow body flights and trucking services. [+]

Gdansk poised to become a European mega-hub

The Port of Gdansk is planning to compete with the largest Europe maritime gateways as the largest investment programme in its history, about €1.3 billion-worth of new infrastructure, nears completion in 2021.Port of Gdansk President Łukasz Greinke said it would allow the Polish gateway to compete with ports in Western ... [+]

Forwarder joins airline green scheme

Kuehne+Nagel has joined the Air France KLM Martinair Cargo SAF programme, launching the first carbon neutral airfreight lane between North America and Europe. SAF partners agree to deploy alternative fuel and commit to a sustainable future for aviation. [+]

Cathay Pacific offers vaccine solution

Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific Cargo has developed a solution specifically to distribute Covid-19 vaccines, based on its Ultra Track track-and-trace system. Ultra Track monitors information including temperature, GPS location, and humidity, using low-energy Bluetooth readers and gives shippers and forwarders near real time visibility to ensure that vaccines remain ... [+]

Aerospace specialist recruits high-flyer

Aerospace logistics specialist B&H Worldwide has appointed Michael Haskins as head of global sales. He joins B&H Worldwide with over 20 years of experience in aerospace time critical logistics, most recently as managing director of Tala (The Aerospace Logistics Alliance). He also held senior roles with Kuehne and Nagel at ... [+]

U-Ocean blows into Windy City

U-Freight North America, the US subsidiary of the U-Freight Group, has added a consolidation centre for ocean freight shipments at its freight hub in Chicago, joining its other main ocean freight hub in Los Angeles. It will enable it to better serve customers on the US East and West coasts, ... [+]

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