December 2021
Saudia Cargo has signed a sponsorship agreement with the Kingdom’s first female accredited rally driver, Mashael AlObaidan – little more than four years after the country joined the rest of the world in allowing women to drive on public roads.
The 33-year-old driver will take part in Rally Dakar in 2022, as not only the first Saudi but the first Arab female participant.
Mashael aspires to lead a new generation of female ...
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Port congestion is still affecting North America and Europe in the run-up to the holiday season but container dwell times are improving slightly and the situation is improving somewhat in Felixstowe, says supply chain visibility specialist, Project44.
However, congestion is still serious in Rotterdam, in Savannah, one of the most important ...
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Stena Line has redeployed its larger Stena Foreteller ship to the Belfast-Birkenhead (Liverpool) route, adding 13% more freight capacity.
Freight routes between Britain and Ireland have witnessed a decline of up to 25% whilst trade routes into Northern Ireland from Britain have seen month on month increases caused in the main ...
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Austrian transport and logistics provider Gebrüder Weiss has been delivering detergents and cleaning agents manufactured in Kruševac, Serbia by rail to destinations along the Vienna-Düsseldorf line for consumer products company Henkel. It circumvents the current shortage of truck capacity and cuts emissions by up to 70% while matching the delivery ...
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Imperial Logistics International has continued its long-established tradition of supporting worthy causes at Christmas, with donations to three charities. They are the child- and youth hospice Malteser Hospizzentrum St. Raphael, in Duisburg, the Hauner Verein association that supports the Dr von Haunerschen Children’s hospital in Munich and the Neuenkirchen-Vörden-based Clemens-August-Jugendklinik, ...
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Forward Solutions - the Freight Software Group - says its new user interface will be rolled out in early 2022, and will make its software more intuitive and easier to use. Managing director Richard Litchfield said the transport tech company has spent the year refining its products and becoming much ...
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) has raised more than £147,000 for its charity partner, Prostate Cancer UK through its GBRf 2021 railtour for train enthusiasts. The four-day charity charter travelled across different parts of the UK rail network on 2-5 September.
Its success was underpinned by the support of the wider rail industry ...
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Bertelsmann’s Arvato Supply Chain Solutions arm has opened a new logistics centre in Parla, around 20 kilometers south of Madrid. The 25,000sq m facility handles all logistics and online fulfilment for a major fashion industry client.
Managing director of Arvato Supply Chain Solutions in Spain, Emilio Juaranz, said: "Spain is a ...
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Xpediator’s Delamode Nidd arm has agreed a new five-year lease for a second 67,000sq ft warehouse in Ripon, North Yorkshire, a short distance from its existing site, bringing the forwarder’s total capacity to 113,000sq ft. It will meet rising demand for storage from existing clients, as well as providing improved ...
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AD Ports Group has signed four strategic agreements and a head of terms agreement with the Aqaba Development Corporation to develop logistics, transport, digital It includes setting up a digital port community system with AD Ports’ digital arm, Maqta Gateway, and agreements to explore the development and modernisation of a ...
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