February 2021
Secretary general of the Global Shippers Forum, James Hookham, has described moves by leading forwarder Geodis and German purchasing group Xstaff to charter their own container ships from the Far East to Europe to beat soring liner rates and space shortages as “a really good innovation that should be welcomed”.
However, he believes that such such initiatives only be a short-lived phenomenon while liner rates remained at unprecedentedly high levels. The ...
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Logistics UK has been invited to join the government’s Brexit Business Taskforce.
The invitation, by Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove, is in recognition of the group’s work helping government to keep Britain trading throughout the Brexit process. Logistics UK chief executive And, as David Wells, said: “We are ...
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The Port of Southampton is upgrading 430 metres of quayside to support its project cargo and ro ro operations, as well as the new cruise terminal. More than 400 metres of quayside – the length of four football pitches – is being upgraded to reinforce the structure and to incorporate ...
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British Chambers of Commerce director of trade facilitation, Liam Smyth, says his members have suiffered additional costs in terms of both time and money, and many businesses had turned away from international trade as a result.
He told witnesses at a House of Commons International Trade Committee enquiry on 11 February ...
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Maersk has operated a dedicated block train from China to Poland to deliver PPE for medical supplier Zarys International Group, and commissioned by the Polish Material Reserves Agency. The 41-container-long block train operated from Yiwu to the intermodal terminal in Małaszewicze, where it arrived on 8 February. The protective equipment ...
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Traffic through Cork was down 2% to 9.2 million tonnes in 2020 due to the challenges posed by Covid 19 but containers were up 4% at 250,000teu, said the port in its latest statistics.
The Port attributed the strong performance to introduction of several new services. In April 2020, CLdN Ro-Ro ...
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As National Apprenticeship week comes nears its end, the British International Freight Association has repeated its call for freight forwarding and logistics companies to consider recruiting apprentices.
Executive director Carl Hobbis said: “We know it’s a tough call, with the pandemic and the post transition period continuing to disrupt many freight ...
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PD Ports has gone into partnership with the Port of Rotterdam to deliver digitalised solutions on the River Tees.
The UK operator is developing a Port Community System Working in collaboration with the Dutch gateway as part of its plans to become a ‘smarter port’; reducing reliance on personal interaction and ...
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Cargo handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has opened a 250,000-tonne capacity terminal at Brussels Airport. The new 25,000sq m facility is in addition to WFS’ 11,000sq m warehouse and office operation at the airport which opened in the Brucargo West development zone in 2019.
It includes a dedicated pharma zone, which ...
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Austrian-based forwarder Cargo-partner has opened a new UK office in Manchester after taking a one-third stake in logistics firm Aztek International. Cargo-partner will offer services including air, sea, road, rail transport and customs services in the UK.
Aztek International gives cargo-partner full coverage of the UK from its other offices in ...
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