December 2021
Emirates SkyCargo has flown more than 600 million doses of the Covid 19 vaccine since October 2020, from 35 origins to over 80 destinations. Divisional senior vice president, Nabil Sultan, said that that nearly two thirds of them were headed to destinations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with North America and Europe the main origin regions.
With the increasing roll-out of vaccination and booster campaigns, the carrier witnessed a ...
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Thames Freeport officially opened for business on 15 December, a few weeks after the UK’s first freeport opened for business in Teesside.
Thames Freeport covers a 34 km-wide economic corridor and promises “a world class hub of innovation” that will “put the region at the forefront of the cutting-edge sectors of ...
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Dublin Port Company will increase goods dues on empty containers and trailers from their current 26% to the same level laden units in equal tranches over the five years from 2022 to 2026 under its new pricing strategy which takes effect from 1 April 2022. There will also be an ...
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AP Moller - Maersk has signed an international freight supply chain management partnership with consumer products manufacturer Unilever from 2022. The four-year agreement will see the development and management of Unilever’s International Control Tower Solution which will consolidate execution of its global ocean and air transport, enhancing visibility, increasing efficiency ...
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European forwarders’ organisation Clecat is urging shippers and hauliers to prepare for the introduction if full customs controls into the UK from the end of the year. It points out that from 1 January, customs controls will apply to all goods moving between the EU and GB, along with additional ...
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The UK Government said on 15 December that it would further postpone introduction of post-Brexit border controls on goods moving from the island of Ireland to GB.
Irish traders will be exempt from some new Brexit import requirements from January 2022 as a consequence of the ongoing negotiations around the Northern Ireland protocol
Chief executive of FTAI Ireland, ...
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FedEx Express has completed an expansion of its air cargo hub at Miami International Airport. It will increase capacity and capabilities at the company’s Americas gateway, which connects the US and Canada to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The $72.2 million expansion adds more than 138,000sq ft to the main sort ...
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APM Terminals has invested US$438 million to upgrade its facility in Apapa, Nigeria’s largest container hub. The investment is the highest of any port terminal operator in the country. It has acquired mobile harbour cranes, rubber tyred gantry cranes, reach stackers, forklifts, terminal trucks, empty handlers and invested in yard ...
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Dietmar Focke, currently vice president engine services at aircraft maintenance operator Lufthansa Technik, has been appointed chief operations and human resources officer at Lufthansa Cargo. He succeeds Harald Gloy, who is leaving the company at his own request.
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Logistics UK crowned broker CharterSync Air Business of the Year at its annual Logistics Awards in London on 9 Decemb (main pictures)er.
The company, founded by two airline pilots, connects urgent charter requests from freight forwarders directly to aircraft operators via an intelligent platform that provides speed and transparency to a ...
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