March 2021
SEKO Logistics has become an official partner of new Scottish Premiership champions Rangers Football Club. The logistics provider says it is its biggest-ever sports order fulfilment and global shipping campaign.
As Official Logistics Partner, SEKO has already fulfilled hundreds of thousands of orders and completed deliveries to supporters in 89 countries – but the commercial surge is only just beginning.
Manager Steven Gerrard and his squad claimed Rangers’ record-breaking 55th league title ...
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Mott MacDonald has developed a masterplan for the UK’s first multi-modal hydrogen transport hub in the Tees Valley, on behalf of theDepartment for Transport (DfT). Development of the hub will be kickstarted with £3m in government funding and could be fully operational by 2025. Retailers, warehouse operators and delivery companies ...
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Rail traffic between China and Europe has increased by 10-15% recently, says Rachelle Slingerland (pictured below), business development manager at shortsea and intermodal operator, Samskip Logistics. She says that capacity shortages and intense sea freight rate inflation are giving an extra push to rail, as a fresh crop of long ...
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Maritime Transport has secured a two-year contract with AP Moller – Maersk to provide committed space for the movement of containers by rail across the UK.
Maersk will use four of Maritime’s intermodal services daily, including two from the Port of Felixstowe to Maritime’s Wakefield and East Midlands Gateway terminals, and ...
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Eurotunnel is offering a web-based customs transit solution developed by inspection, controls, and certification specialist SGS,
SGS TransitNet is aimed at customers who wish to move their goods under Common Transit customs procedures and carry out their customs clearance operations away from the border by making a transit declaration via a ...
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Agility has moved its Australasia regional headquarters to a new 32,000sq m facility in the Melbourne Airport Business Park. The building has 4,108 solar panels that can generate up to 1.8MW of electricity for Melbourne Airport’s existing 12MW solar farm. It also features a 10,000-litre, roof-rainwater harvesting tank that will ...
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The European Commission launched the first phase of its new import control system (ICS2 to protect against threats posed by illicit goods across the EU's external borders on 15 March. ICS2 will initially focus on postal and express consignments coming to or through the EU by air, before eventually being ...
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The Welsh Government has selected Plot 9 at Parc Cybi has been selected as the site for the new Holyhead Border Control Post (BCP) to handle physical checks on certain goods entering the UK from Ireland. Inspections will be required on goods such as animals, plants and products of animal ...
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Hauliers travelling to France that have spent less than 48 hours in the UK no longer require a Covid-19 test prior to departure while those that do require a test must therefore ensure they take one before arriving in Kent in order to avoid delays, reports the port of Dover. ...
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London was the biggest port in the UK last year, handling 47.4 million tonnes of cargo, says the Port of London Authority.
PLA chief executive, Robin Mortimer, explained: “Last year saw a massive collective effort across the port, including from terminal operators, shipping lines, essential support services such as towage providers, ...
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