October 2021
The last four months has seen a decline in full truckload shipments in the UK, and a corresponding increase in less-than-truckload shipments, according to the FourKites visibility platform.
The proportion of full truckloads loads in the UK has decreased by between 5-15% in the past four months, while LTL loads have increased by 10-20%, it says.
FourKites adds that the shift may be caused by a shortage of drivers or the ongoing ...
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Port of Salalah in Oman has partnered with Maersk to launch a new end-to-end logistics service to Yemen through the Al-Mazyunah free zone. It includes customs clearance and bonded trucking services between Salalah and Al-Mazyunah free zone and could eliminate unexpected costs including line demurrage and port storage, say the ...
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Scan Global Logistics (SGL) has opened new offices in Cotonou, Benin, and Lomé, Togo. They will provide commercial air and ocean freight forwarding services and inland container haulage in the region, working with existing offices in Mali, Senegal, and the Ivory Coast. Earlier this month Copenhagen-based SGL acquired UK-based air ...
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Norwegian wheeled cargo shipping company UECC has added a Cuxhaven call in its Baltic Service from St Petersburg in Russia and Hanko, Finland with onward connections to Southampton in the UK as well as Continental ports such as Zeebrugge.
The weekly service is operated by the two LNG-fuelled ro ro carriers ...
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Straddle carriers are a vital part of the operations at Tilbury’s London Container Terminal, but how many of us know just what it’s like to drive one of these monsters?
Forth Ports has produced a new behind the scenes video in which straddle drivers and trainers talk about their experiences of ...
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Despite the recent, well-publicised problems, most ports are at least “tentatively confident” about their business outlook in the coming 12 months, according to a survey by the British Ports Association (BPA).
However, a quarter “do not feel confident at all”, it adds.
Nearly half (47.3% ) of ports surveyed said that their ...
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French-headquartered forwarder Geodis is establishing a contract logistics footprint in Sweden with the opening of 16,000sq m facility at Arendal, near the port of Gothenburg.
Only 15km from the city centre, it has excellent connections to the regional motorway network with access to Stockholm and Malmö, as well as Oslo in ...
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DHL Express has started construction of a new stand-alone logistics hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport. The 15,000sq m facility, on a 30,000sq m airside/landside plot in ADIA’s Future Cargo Area, is being developed in partnership with Abu Dhabi Airports Free Zone Authority - a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu ...
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DP World’s Aart Hille Ris Lambers was named personality of the year and there were awards for Maritime Transport, Freightliner, Maersk Line and Air Menzies International among others at the record-breaking event last night.
Aart Hille Ris Lambers UK commercial director, DP World was revealed as the winner at a record-breaking ...
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Haulage, freight booking and management software developer Zeus Labs has appointed Matt Jones as head of operations. He was previously at Wincanton for four years, where he held senior planning and relationship management roles, and before that held planning positions for Severn Trent Water and Cemex Cement.
The move follows the ...
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