June 2021
IAG Cargo has launched a new route from Madrid to Guayaquil, Ecuador. The three times a week service is operated by an Airbus A330-200. It has also increased the frequency of its flight from London Heathrow and Madrid to Sao Paolo and Mexico City and will restart services from Madrid to San Juan, Puerto Rico in July. The Guayaquil flight is an important for the perishables sector, with the Netherlands ...
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Swiss-based customs agent Franzosini and Italian customs clearance company Butti Dino have set up a new UK joint venture in Dover, F&B under branch manager Evelynne Morris (pictured). The partners say the UK now faces similar customs clearance challenges to Switzerland, Brexit has created an increase in work for Butti ...
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Emirates SkyCargo is has extended its fully automated cool room at its EU GDP certified dedicated pharma facility at Dubai International Airport by 94 airline pallet positions.
The extended cool room will provide an additional 2,600sq m of temperature controlled environment (2-25 degrees Celsius) for the storage and handling of vaccines ...
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Lufthansa’s high-speed logistics arm time:matters and its partner Businesswings is offering additional freight capacities between Germany and the UK and Ireland to counter bottlenecks in capacity. Time:matters will fly to Birmingham and Dublin from Frankfurt am Main on Mondays to Fridays, offering check-in and departure times after 8pm at Frankfurt. ...
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Demand for Xpediator Group’s services across all three divisions has been strong, said the UK-based forwarder in a statement ahead of its annual general meeting on 8 June. It said that those parts of the Transport and Logistics & Warehousing divisions that were impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic were now ...
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In May 2021, Eurotunnel's Le Shuttle Freight transported 112,772 trucks, an increase of 25% compared to May 2020. However, traffic for the five months from January to May 2021 was down 5% on 2020, at 530,964 trucks.
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Air China has extended its cargo handling agreements with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) at London Heathrow and Frankfurt. In the UK, the airline has renewed its cargo handling contract at Heathrow by a further three years, while, in Frankfurt, Air China has signed a 12-month extension. Both airports are key ...
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Aviation Horizon has signed a global cargo general sales agency contract with Saudi private jet operator Air One Aviation to support its new Boeing 737-400SF converted freighter aircraft. It has taken delivery of the first aircraft and two more are due in the next three months. Each aircraft will offer ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is advising forwarders to be very careful with any business that they are offered from traders that have taken advantage of HMRC’s Delayed Declaration Scheme, but which have not taken out a CFSP authorisation in their own right and are now trying to find ...
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Freight forwarding and logistics company NTEX has acquired Scanroad Sweden and Scanroad France, its eighth and ninth acquisitions since 2017.
NTEX was founded in Gothenburg in 2003 and has since grown to almost 600 employees and a turnover of approximately SEK 2 billion. It also has offices in the UK, Norway, ...
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