June 2021
Covid hasn’t diminished the British love-affair with Italian pasta, says Aztek Logistics. Demand by those that know their lasagne from their linguini or their fettucine from their fusilli, for southern Italian pasta from the Naples region where it originated has continued beyond the high watermark of the panic-buying months of the first lockdown. There is no sign of orders returning to pre-pandemic levels, reports Aztek’s customer, Hertfordshire-based Specialist Foods, the ...
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A second lo lo container ship for P&O Ferries’ Zeebrugge-Hull route arrived on the Humber for the first time on 1 June.
The integrated ferry and logistics business has added the 650teu MV Freya to its schedule in response to rapidly growing demand.
Together with sister ship Elisabeth, she will double capacity ...
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CHI Aviation Handling, Air India and DSV Air & Sea have operated five special Boeing C17 flights with medical supplies from Frankfurt to Srinagar and Delhi. The cargo included 31.5 tons of oxygen tanks, 27 tons of oxygen generators, and 68 tons of granules for the production of oxygen.
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Cargo-partner is to expand its iLogistics Center in Brnik, next to Slovenia's Ljubljana Airport, to a total of 39,100sq m, including a new drone runway. The forwarder has been present in Slovenia since 1996 and today is one of the main providers of info-logistics and international transport services in the ...
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Rachel Morley has succeeded John Stubbings as the elected national chair of the British International Freight Association (BIFA) for two years.She is regional manager Western Europe at BIFA member company, OIA Global and has been vice-chair for the past two years. She also chairs BIFA’s Midlands region.Charles Hogg, Commercial Director ...
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Associated British Ports has chosen Inform to provide a terminal operating system for trade car traffic at its port of Southampton, which handles around 900,000 vehicles per year. It will provide a streamlined, fully integrated, terminal operating vehicle management system which covers all port side operations in a single application, ...
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Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss is to acquire the business of Rhenus Bulgaria, subject to approval by the antitrust authorities. Rhenus has been a long-standing partner of Gebrüder Weiss in many countries and is now withdrawing from the Bulgarian market in the road segment.It says that acquiring the customers and employees ...
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Japanese freighter operator Nippon Cargo Airlines is to go live on WebCargo's digital air cargo booking platform. It brings the percentage of global capacity represented by eBooking-ready airlines; over the past year from 11.13% to 24.25%, while actual eBookings have increased more than 20-fold, says WebCargo parent company Freightos.
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Lufthansa Cargo will take delivery of its 15ths Boeing 777F freighter by the end of this year. The twin-engine aircraft has a standard payload capacity of 103 tonnes with a range of more than 9,000 kilometers and is described as the most efficient freighter in its class and significantly more ...
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Temperature controlled packaging specialist Peli BioThermal is now offering customers of its single use products, such as the option to condition coolants at its 80 locations worldwide. It is aimed at companies that do not have the facilities, equipment or staff to condition their packaging.
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