June 2021
Peter Ward is to step down as chief executive of the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) after six years in the role. His successor will be named shortly. UKWA said that since joining, he had transformed the fortunes of the Association, substantially improving revenues, widening membership to encompass retail and manufacturing logistics users, and introducing significant new benefits to membership. Chair of the UKWA management board Nicola Ridges-Jones added: “We wish ...
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Finnish-based Nurminen Logistics is claiming that it will run the first ever block train from Europe to India on the Western wing of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).
INSTC is the 7,200 km long, multi-modal network of ship, rail, and road routes for moving freight between India, Russia, Iran, Europe, ...
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SecurFoundation, the philanthropic arm of logistics, M&A and financial services firm SecurCapital Corp, has launched a Covid Relief Effort to raise money and send 68 million masks to the Indian subcontinent.
With 54 million surgical and 14 million respirator masks in its temperature-controlled, pharmaceutical-grade warehouses in the Dallas area, SecurFoundation has ...
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Europa Road has announced a new, groupage partnership in Belgium with Transuniverse Forwarding.Based in Wondelgem, Belgium, Transuniverse, has a turnover of €72m and operates 43 forwarding destinations across Europe. By offering a structured, driver accompanied round trip model, several times per day, which maximises efficiency and utilisation, as well as ...
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Fast-moving consumer goods consolidator Oakland International says it has become one of the first companies in its sector to invest in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) despatch technology at its Bardon operation near Leicester. RFID technology identifies tagged objects using radio waves and can automatically reading hundreds of barcodes per second ...
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TT Club says the X-Press Pearl’s containership incident off Colombo is the latest in a disappointing recent and persistent catalogue of container ship fires, which occur almost weekly, the vast majority of them started by hazardous cargo. One estimate puts the number of mis- or undeclared dangerous cargoes in excess ...
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Unifeeder has launched a container service between Southampton, Belfast and Cork. It will offer a fixed weekday schedule to and from Ireland, departing Southampton on Monday, arriving in Belfast on Thursday, Cork on Friday and arriving back in Southampton on Saturday.
Cork chief commercial officer, Conor Mowlds, said: “We are delighted ...
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Offering services to 127 countries and being the fastest-growing air cargo brand around the world, Turkish Cargo has been carrying out the air cargo transportation operations under the favor of talented colleagues. In these operations, there are really important occupational groups from pilots to loadmasters. Turkish Cargo tells about a ...
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Samskip has join the Ecobal initiative to plant new trees across Europe to offset carbon emissions. The shortsea operator has reserved 50,000sq m of woodland in Poland, Italy and Spain that Ecobal will maintain and protect, while planting hundreds of new seedlings to encourage their regeneration, which Samskip will be ...
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Work is progressing on a project to install new dual function lock gates on the Thames Estuary in Tilbury. The £34m scheme is a project between the Environment Agency and Forth Ports-owned Tilbury to protect homes and businesses in the local area from flooding. The project will see three pairs ...
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