January 2022
Maritime Transport has made four appointments to its senior management. Michael Carr joins as general manager – property, and Craig Moore as general manager – commercial. Chris Lewis rejoins Maritime’s board of management as deputy chairman alongside newly-appointed fleet sales director, Matt Heath.
With nearly forty years’ experience in the ports, terminals, and shipping industry, Chris Lewis brings substantial expertise to the board, having previously held senior positions at Hutchison Ports ...
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Qatar Airways is operating regular flights to and from Munich with a cargo version of its Boeing 777. The routing starts in Bangalore, India through Qatar's capital Doha to Munich and then on to Chicago and with a return flight in the opposite rotation. Qatar is operating the service on ...
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SEKO Logistics is launching a new Ecommerce business unit to handle international cross border shipping, global fulfilment, heavyweight last mile, returns and re-commerce.
The specialist forwarder says the move reflects the rise of direct to consumer (DTC) brands selling through their own channels using platforms such as Shopify. SEKO has pre-built ...
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Davies Turner says its Express China rail freight service to the UK is getting back on track after a difficult 2021, and is achieving a 29-day transit time from departure in Wuhan to arrival at UK depots.
Soaring demand created by the extreme air and ocean freight difficulties contributed to operational ...
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The U-Freight Group is playing a key role in making sure that non-resident Filipinos can have their say in their country’s presidential and vice-presidential elections on 9 May.
Through its long-standing partner in the country, the Hong Kong-based forwarder will be distributing all the equipment, peripherals, documentation and other paraphernalia around ...
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DHL Global Forwarding has helped the Warriors of Wildlife charity take a group of lions and tigers to a better life in South Africa. The lions Hercules, Cher, Khaya, Ilana and Arslan – the latter named by the forwarder’s Turkish Airfreight team - as well as tiger Kisa, were being ...
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GSSA ECS Group’s in-house solution developer, Cargo Digital Factory, is to join forces with French software and data-science company, Wiremind Cargo to launch a new CargoTech venture. The new business unit will collaborate to digitalise as many air cargo processes as possible. It will design digital solutions to expand the ...
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Europa Worldwide Group’s Europa Road arm is expanding its local sales branches from 13 to 16 with new sites Cambridge, Liverpool and Cardiff. Due to open on 1 May, they are the first new branches since Europa opened in Belfast three years ago. Europa Road is already increasing the head ...
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UK-based central and eastern Europe specialist forwarder Xpediator’s Delamode International Logistics arm has signed a ten year lease for a new, purpose built 180,000sq ft (35,000 pallet spaces) warehouse in Roosendaal, Netherlands. It will occupy the site from March 2023. Xpediator has also agreed to take 6,500 pallet spaces in ...
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The Port of Felixstowe says it has handled what is believed to be the largest number of containers ever on a single ship in Europe - 23,773teu on the 24,000teu MSC Diletta on 12 January on the 2M Alliance Griffin/AE55 Far East Asia to North Europe service.
Port operations director Robert ...
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