August 2021
Online voting has opened for the Multimodal 2021 Awards. The Awards recognise excellence in air, road, rail, maritime, and freight forwarding services and are voted for online by readers of the Multimodal Newsletter and exhibitors and visitors to the show. Categories include 3PL of the Year, Air Freight, Rail Freight, Road Freight, and Sea Freight Operator of the year, Pallet Network of the Year, Port Operator of the Year, and ...
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Crane Worldwide Logistics has moved its regional logistics hub from the UK to a bonded warehouse facility near Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, saying that Brexit played a key part in its decision.
The new facility will provide additional space and value-added services to increase supply chain solutions in continental Europe without ...
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BoxTop Technologies - part of the Freight Software Group – has expanded its Southampton office. Established in 1995, the international forwarding and logistics specialist recently welcomed colleagues from its sister company Forward Solutions to its Totton, Southampton site, which is primarily home to its commercial team. It also has a ...
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DHL Freight has broken ground on a new transhipment facility and warehouse at Erlensee near Frankfurt, due to open in mid-2022.
It will be built on the site of the former military air base at Erlensee and will include a cross-dock terminal, a specialist chemical warehouse and offices.
These will largely be ...
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Deutsche Post DHL Group has signed an agreement to acquire up to 100% of specialist beverages forwarder JF Hillebrand Group and its subsidiaries for around €1.5 billion. It will be combined with DHL’s Freight division.
Hillebrand specialises in ocean freight forwarding, transport and logistics of beverages, non-hazardous bulk liquids and other ...
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Energy consulting firm, Wood Mackenzie has published a research paper recommending that the Firth of Forth become a Net Zero hub for Scotland.
It says that the development of net zero hubs around the UK has proved a key plank of the country’s strategy towards achieving net zero by 2050. Scotland, ...
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Gebrüder Weiss says the photovoltaic installation at its Graz site in Austria, commissioned in August 2020, is now generating over 460 megawatt hours of electricity every year, enough to meet around half the energy needs of the 27,000sq m building.
The logistics company already uses solar power at five other locations ...
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DSV says that it is increasingly using rail between China and Europe and it is an increasingly attractive means of shipping.
The forwarder says it takes between 15 and 18 days for Chinese and Russian trains to transport containers from northern and central China to Europe.
While the golden age of railways ...
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DSV has introduced an ETA (estimated time of arrival) to tell its clients when goods will arrive, reducing administrative time, eliminating phone calls. It is available through the booking, track and trace portal myDSV.
The first/last mile ETA is generated by the DSV Driver App; when trucks leave the DSV terminal ...
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DSV Panalpina has completed its takeover of Agility’s Global Integrated Logistics business. The acquisition puts DSV is in the top three global logistics companies, with expected combined revenue of about DKK 160 billion (US$25.3bn)and a combined workforce of 75,000 employees in more than 90 countries.
It follows the Danish giant’s earlier ...
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