April 2021
Jennifer Smith has joined Worldwide Flight Services as UK commercial director - cargo and ground handling. She joins WFS from Air New Zealand, where she held the post of regional cargo sales manager – UK & Europe.
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Insurers TT Club is warning that the Suez Canal will have knock-on effects on liner shipping for many weeks to come. It says that while the Canal is now functioning normally again, a reported 300 ships have been delayed awaiting transit, many others were re-routed via the longer passage around ...
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IAG Cargo has transported 2.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines into Latin America and the Caribbean since January, including El Salvador, Mexico, Chile and the Dominican Republic through its Constant Climate cool chain product. In February it was announced that IAG Cargo has been appointed as one of the airlines ...
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BIFA has welcomed increased government incentive payments for companies that hire new apprentices. Employers will now receive £3,000 for new apprentices of any age who join their organisation from 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021.
Carl Hobbis, BIFA’s Executive Director, who has management responsibility for BIFA’s training and development services, ...
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East and central European specialist forwarder Xpediator says its turnover was up 3.7% in the twelve months ended 31 December 2020, to £221.2m. It said it reflected a generally resilient performance during the Covid-19 impacted months coupled with a strong performance in the last quarter of 2020. Adjusted profit before ...
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Onlookers on the Forth Estuary were treated to a spectacular sight at the weekend when, in an operation spanning two days, the largest construction vessel in the world Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit – 382 metres long and 124 metres wide - transferred a topside drilling platform onto the 200 metre long ...
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The Coastlink Live online conference will examine how short sea shipping can provide a sustainable alternative to moving goods to and from Europe on 22 April.
The free-to-attend conference, supported by Logistics UK, will take place between 10:00 – 11:00 BST and will focus on how the movement of freight is ...
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Le Shuttle Freight transported 122,832 trucks in March, a decrease of 2% compared to March 2020. The tunnel operator said the market was still marked by the adjustments to new post-Brexit administrative rules, but with a trend towards normalisation. The cumulative total for January-March was 387,248 trucks, down 21% on ...
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Developer Verdion has completed the final letting in its current round of speculative development at its iPort multimodal logistics hub in Doncaster. A homeware retailer has taken the 119,060 sq ft (11,061 sq m) warehouse iP2g, which offers space for up to 12,194 pallets with 12.5 m clear headroom and ...
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It says a lot for the charms of Wales – but perhaps rather less for Australia - that a homesick teenager was willing to risk an excruciating death to get back there, courtesy of the airfreight industry.
In a celebrated incident in 1965 – soon to be the subject of a ...
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