December 2021
IAG Cargo says it will be creating more than 500 new roles over the next 12 months in the biggest recruitment drive in its history.
The business has welcomed many new customers since the start of 2021 and has seen growing demand for some of its specialist products such as Constant Climate for vaccines, Constant Fresh for perishables and Critical for emergency items.
It will be recruiting in areas across the business ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) lit up eight of its buildings to mark the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December.
Ayr, Barrow-in-Furness, Cardiff, Grimsby, Hull, Immingham, King’s Lynn, Southampton and Troon all took part in the annual PurpleLightUp day, seven of them for the first time.
PurpleLightUp celebrates the ...
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Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail-IR) has launched a Rail Freight 2040 Strategy to revitalise the market for freight and increase the mode’s share from its current low base.
Rail Freight 2040 envisages a five-fold increase in the number of rail freight services, to over 100 a week across the network.
IR would seek ...
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Australian forwarder Navia has bought Perth-based Keys Freight and Logistics. Navia now has locations in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, as well as Auckland, Chicago, Penang and Budapest. Keys Freight and Logistics was founded in 2015 and specialises in the Western Australian market, offering logistics, customs clearance, warehousing and inter-state ...
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Under-Secretary of State for Transport Baroness Vere of Norbiton officially opened the UK’s newest truckstop in Ashford on 3 December.Ashford International Truckstop, which has been developed by GSE Building and Civil Engineering, is located at Waterbrook Park, near (J10/10A) of the M20 offering space for up to 660 trucks, which ...
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The International Air Transport Association, the International Chamber of Shipping, the International Road Transport Union and the International Transport Workers’ Federation, have jointly called for governments to not reimpose border restrictions on transport workers as a “knee-jerk reaction” to the Omicron variant of the Covid virus.
They say that a week ...
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Lufthansa Group’s time:matters high speed logistics arm is now offering fully offset first- and last-mile carbon emissions for its ic:kurier rail service within Germany. The company hasoffset all the CO2 emissions relating to its airmates On Board Courier air service since 2019. The rail service itself already runs on 100% ...
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AV Dawson’s Port of Middlesbrough set a new record when it handled the largest offshore wind vessel ever to pass under the city’s Transporter Bridge.
Built this year (2021), by subsea cable company Prysmian Group, the Leonardo da Vinci is described as the most advanced cable-laying vessel in the world. It ...
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PD Ports, owner and operator of Teesport has contracted Konecranes to convert the primary power supply of four diesel rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) to electric to cut carbon emissions.
It is the first phase of a wider electrification process, totalling over £2 million of investment by PD Ports, to convert ...
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Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe said it had passed the cumulative 100 million teu mark since it handled its first container in the 1960s.
The 100th million unit was loaded at Berth 8, the port’s newest facility and one of four capable of handling the world’s largest container ships.
Commenting at a ...
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