June 2021
Rail wagon leasing company VTG is pilot testing Nexxiot’s Kingpin Monitor to check the security of piggyback road semi-trailers on pocket wagons. Crane drivers and ground staff are well versed in handling trailers but when visibility is poor, they often have to carry out the inspection by torchlight and rely on an acoustic signal that the pin emits when it is correctly inserted into the support frame. The sensor provides ...
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Dutch-based transport company A2B-online Container has added a fourth weekly sailing on its service between Hutchison Ports’ London Thamesport in Kent and Moerdijk in The Netherlands.The new sailing was inaugurated by the A2B Comfort, one of six 508teu container ships operated by A2B in the North Sea.A2B’s group sales director, ...
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More than a third of European road transport businesses are thinking about expanding their operations into other countries, especially in the UK, according to a survey by legal and business services firm, DWF.The survey, carried out by One Poll for DWF, found that despite the challenges of the last year ...
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The Port of Gothenburg says its Skandia Gateway project to accommodate the world’s largest containerships is going to plan. The scheme involves deepening 6km of fairway to 17.5 metres with construction scheduled to begin during the first quarter of 2022. At Skandiahamnen, the existing terminal and 1.2 kilometres of quays ...
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The British public believes that freeports will have a positive impact on the economy but many people are unclear on how they will work, according to research by economic development and infrastructure specialists, Copper Consultancy.
Copper’s Attitudes to Freeports report, published on 3 June, considers the views of a representative sample ...
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Cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has signed an agreement with Krasnoyarsk region to develop Krasnoyarsk International Airport as a logistics hub. It covers the opening of an international postal centre as well as a cargo customs office and mail customs checkpoint.
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Truck driver shortages are expected to increase in 2021 by over a quarter on 2020 levels in almost all of the 23 countries surveyed in the International Road Transport Union (IRU) recent global survey of road transport firms.It added that gaps are set to increase at a much higher rate ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says that further government support for apprentice recruitment is now available.Since 1 June, employers of all sizes in England can apply for extra funding to help them take on new apprentices, said BIFA, which is encouraging its members to take advantage of the increased ...
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The shortage of container vessels and equipment is hindering economic recovery in countries emerging from pandemic restrictions, say the Global Shippers Forum (GSF)and MDS Transmodal in their latest Container Shipping Market Quarterly.
GSF secretary general , James Hookham, said that shippers around the world “are in a state of shock” at ...
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There is a question mark over airfreight’s market recovery, say analysts Clive Data Services and TAC Index in their latest report. Continued market uncertainties and extended public holidays contributed to a -4% drop in global demand in May 2021 versus the pre-Covid level in 2019, they said.
(To offer a meaningful ...
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