July 2021
The world’s largest plane, the Antonov 225, took off from Leipzig/Halle on 7 July with medical equipment for Windhoek in Namibia. The cargo consisted of 530 pallets weighing approx. 70 tonnes. The airport’s PortGround handling subsidiary was responsible for loading the AN 225 in conjunction with the German armed forces.
Alongside its regular traffic, the airport has already handled about 70 freight charter flights transporting millions of Covid-19 test kits and ...
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Time-critical logistics operator Priority Freight has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. It was presented to the company’s group managing director Neal Williams by the Lord Lieutenant of Kent, Lady Annabel Colgrain, at a ceremony it its head office in Dover.Priority Freight’s highly experienced multilingual logistics specialists are committed to ...
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Gefco has selected Blue Yonder’s Cloud-based transportation management system (TMS) and warehouse management system (WMS) to replace its legacy, on-premise systems with SaaS supply chain execution solutions. Blue Yonder’s Microsoft Azure-based systems will manage end-to-end business processes from modeling to planning and execution, giving visibility into inbound and outbound transportation ...
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Dwell times at major Shenzhen ports remain disruptively high, despite trending downward in recent days with the Port of Yantian at full capacity again, reported shipping analysts project 44 on 6 July.
It said that disruptions related to China’s Covid quarantine efforts could extend well into the year, potentially affecting Christmas shipments.
Last month, Chinese ...
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Portsmouth stevedore Portico is handling ships for building materials firm Brett Group, following a call on 5 July by the Britannia Beaver with 4,500 tonnes of ‘sharp’ sand.Steve Williams, Portico's operations director said: "We hope this is just the start of what could be a long term agreement, with the ...
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Geodis is to acquire substantially all of the assets of Texas-based broker Velocity Freight Transport, from McLane Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. Velocity provides refrigerated and temperature-controlled freight, flatbed and less-than-load (LTL) trucking, intermodal, van, and specialist options.
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The Cool Chain Association (CCA) has set up a Technical Committee and welcomed five new members. The Committee’s aim is to assist, analyse, study, and manage critical points affecting product, as well as developing standards, and initiating projects. The five new CCA members are Qatar Cargo, 7P Solutions, FreshBizDev, SmartCAE, ...
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US research company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) will present a virtual reality demonstrator of a new transport concept at the ITS World Congress.The partners say that their HyperPort sytem will be a plug-and-play solution for port operators, making it possible to transport up to ...
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Emirates SkyCargo says it has flown 150 million doses – or 600 tonnes - of Covid-19 vaccines through its GDP-certified hub in Dubai. The carrier has dedicated GDP certified infrastructure at Dubai for handling pharmaceuticals.
In January 2020, it joined hands with DP World, International Humanitarian City and Dubai Airports to ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has opened a new office in Odessa, Ukraine with 21 employees. The German liner operator says that with mineral resources and the world's largest agricultural production, the country is an attractive export market for Hapag-Lloyd. It is also an important import country for electronics, machinery and consumer goods.
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