February 2022
German-owned forwarder DB Schenker has signed a partnership with Cloud information company Infor to use the latter’s Nexus technology to deliver supply chain solutions to its customers.
It builds on an established relationship between Infor and DB Schenker, which has is the first third party logistics company to deploy Infor Nexus Control Center, and offer a predictive estimated-time-of-arrival capability. The latest agreement provides DB Schenker’s customer base with access to the ...
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Stena Line has completed a €1 million refit of its two largest ferries, the Stena Hollandica and Stena Britannica. The North Sea vessels, which sail twice daily between Harwich and Hoek van Holland, were in dry-dock in Antwerp for regular annual maintenance where they also received some new additions to ...
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Viking Life-Saving Equipment’s HydroPen onboard container fire-fighting system won the TT Club Innovation in Safety Award at a virtual presentation ceremony on 22 February. PSA International and Cargotec Sweden AB were highly commended.
HydroPen enables fires to be attended by the ship’s crew from a safe distance and the judges were ...
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Nottingham-headquartered forwarder Baxter Freight says that transit and clearance times to Europe have decreased, one year on from signing a strategic partnership with Gerlach Customs. German import clearances for around 600 commodity codes took under an hour in December 2021 and there were also major efficiency gains in Rotterdam, with ...
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AAL Shipping has increased its order for four Super B-Class 32,000 deadweight (DWT) multipurpose ships announced in November to six.
The vessels, designed by AAL’s engineering and commercial teams working alongside sister company, Columbia Ship Management, can carry over 60,000 freight tonnes. A clear weather deck space of 146 x 26 ...
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Claims by new Brexit opportunities minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg, says that the UK’s departure from the EU is already a success and that there is little evidence that it has caused trade to fall are wide of the mark, says ParcelHero.
ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research, David Jinks said that Mogg “appears ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has joined forces with forwarder Röhlig Logistics to offer customers a sustainable transport service on selected routes, with investment in certified climate protection projects compensating for CO2 emissions that arise as a result of airfreight. Röhlig Logistics is initially committed to decarbonising air freight on four selected routes ...
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DHL Supply Chain has implemented its first European fully automated small parts warehouse with robot picking for omni-channel auction platform 1-2-3.tv. The Autostore logistics system in Braunschweig, east of Hanover in Germany gives optimized space-saving storage of small parts and fully automatic picking of up to 18 million items per ...
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BIFA welcomes supply chain watchdog group
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says it welcomes the news that five competition authorities have created a working group to monitor activity by global shipping lines. The authorities will meet regularly to develop and share intelligence to detect and investigate suspected anti-competitive behaviour and ...
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Swiss World Cargo is to serve Tampa, Florida and Delhi, India again from 2 March. Flights between Zurich and Delhi will operate three times a week and twice a week to and from Tampa with an Airbus A340-300. Furthermore, Tampa will be a trucking hub for shipments to Dallas, Greenville, ...
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