March 2021
CH Robinson Europe director of account management Chris Mills is urging businesses to rethink their supply chain strategies and see Brexit as an opportunity to build more diverse and resilient supply chains.
He says that anecdotal feedback suggests that vehicle utilisation is down by a fifth (20%) for UK-EU trade while recent data from the Road Haulage Association indicates that loads to the EU have reduced as much as 68% year ...
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Turkish Cargo and Kuehne + Nagel have delivered 1.7 million doses of covid-19 vaccines from India to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
The Turkish airline has also moved hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 syringes for UNICEF ...
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Ferry operator DFDS says its freight volume in February 2021 for routes calling in the UK was 4%bove the same month in 2020 as the post-Brexit situation began to stablise. Total volume for all routes was up 4%. North Sea volumes were driven by added capacity and continued stabilisation of ...
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German forwarder Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has appointed Patrick Oestreich as its new chief commercial officer. He succeeds Jens Möller, who took over the position on an interim basis in August of last year. For the last two and a half years, he was responsible for strategic sales and account management ...
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Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 11 March showing a 40% fall in exports to the EU and a near 30% fall in imports during January – the biggest since the biggest monthly falls in both imports and exports from the EU since records began in ...
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No, not a new no-frills freight ferry service - Port of Dover Cargo has announced a regular string of calls for Soreidom & Caribbean Line, which will become its first scheduled breakbulk customer.
It will use the port’s recently opened general cargo terminal for a service between Europe and the Caribbean ...
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The Government says it will delay Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) checks on food and agri imports from the EU by six months to give businesses more time to prepare.The checks originally scheduled to start in July will now begin on 1 January 2022 while the requirement for health certificates has ...
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DHL Express has opened its new logistics hub at Malpensa airport near Milan. It will be able to operate over 30 daily flights and handle nearly 38,000 pieces per hour through automated sorting and scanning systems. The facility employs 900 people but during peak periods this number could increase by ...
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While 2020 saw a record slump in new car sales in the UK, strong demand for the international movement of classic and super cars boosted Rhenus UK’s newly established Full Vehicle Logistics (FVL) business.
In its first six months of operations alone, the service transported 86 high performance cars, worth more ...
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Groningen, Netherlands-based short-sea industrial carrier Longship Group has placed an order for two multi-purpose Bijlsma Trader 6000 vessels of 6,080 deadweight tonnes and cargo capacity of 270,000 cubic feet, at Bijlsma Shipyard, Lemmer. The first is due to be delivered in the last quarter of 2021 with the second following ...
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