January 2021
Heathrow-based airfreight trucking company Mixed Freight Services has joined the Pallet-Track network.
The company, which employs almost 100 staff, has taken over the TW postcode area on behalf of the Wolverhampton-based network.
Caldicot-based Hicks Logistics began looking after the Avonmouth postcodes on the same day.
This is the first time Mixed Freight Services has been part of a pallet network and is part of a diversification plan devised long before the major reduction ...
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Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler's Representative in Al Dhafra Region, has inaugurated track-laying works for stage two of the UAE’s national railway, during his visit to Etihad Rail’s railhead in Al Ruwais. Etihad Rail chief executive Shadi Malak, said that steady progress has been made on construction ...
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Kuehne+Nagel has agreed to provide distribution and storage of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine following its authorisation by the European Medicines Agency. KN will support the worldwide distribution of vaccine doses from Europe to Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa and parts of the Americas. KN has also signed partnerships with ...
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FTA Ireland is warning UK businesses sending goods to Ireland to ensure that they have correct customs declarations or face potential delays on arrival at Dublin and other ports.
In the first week of the new trading relationship between the UK and Ireland, several loads bound for Dublin have been prevented ...
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Dachser is organising deliveries of Covid vaccines in the German capital on behalf of the Berlin Senate.The logistics provider will manage vaccine supplies to the central vaccine warehouse along with daily quality-assured deliveries to the city’s six vaccination centres, eleven hospital pharmacies, and up to 60 mobile vaccination teams.
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Short sea line CLdN has added a second call to its weekly con-ro service from Cork to Zeebrugge. The line says that it has seen steady growth in demand for services avoiding the UK landbridge, including unaccompanied trailers, tank containers, finished vehicles and project cargo. A spokesperson from CLdN stated: ...
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E-commerce specialist Seko Logistics has selected Charlotte-based middle market buyout and growth equity firm Ridgemont Equity Partners, a, as its latest investment partner.
New York-based Greenbriar Equity Group, Seko’s key shareholder since 2015, will continue as a minority investor. In a shift from purely organic growth since its founding in 1976, ...
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol head of cargo Bart Pouwels and director of business development, Ferry van der Ent are to leave Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in March under a restructuring plan.
The airport is restructuring its cargo division, bringing it into its new Aviation Business Development Division under the umbrella of the Airport ...
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IAG Cargo operated its 1000th charter flight of 2020, a Boeing 777-200 which departed at the end of the year from London Heathrow for Los Angeles Airport. To date, more than 750 charter flights have transported PPE and medical supplies, and are also being used to transport COVID-19 vaccines.
Other notable ...
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Ceva Logistics has acquired its long-term partner in Morocco, Asti Group. Ceva Logistics said the move would expand its export capabilities, specifically reefer services – in cooperation with its parent company the CMA CGM Group - in Casablanca and the Tangiers Free Zone.
The new operation will also be looking to ...
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