February 2022
The Port of Tilbury has marked National Apprenticeship Week (7-11 February) by awarding ten Level 2 Warehousing & Distribution Apprenticeship certificates following the successful completion of a two-year course.
All ten apprentices worked hard throughout the pandemic restrictions to play their part in ensuring the uninterrupted flow of food, medicines and constructions materials. Tilbury’s Warehouse and Supply Chain Operative Apprenticeship programme has been running since 2016 with 70 apprentices now having ...
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Brexit has caused unrelenting delays at UK ports, says Josh Brazil, senior vice president of global supply chain insights at visibility specialist, project44.Coupled with the crippling effects of Covid, Britain has been “at the eye of the storm for supply chain disruption. Lockdown uncertainty compounded the whirlwind of more stringent ...
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European specialist in real-time transportation visibility company Shippeo is expanding its North American operations and US executive team. It will accelerate the number of integrations with US-based trucking companies, logistics providers and ocean carriers, giving access to data from their terminal and port operator trading partners.
In Europe and the ...
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Peel Ports says that transporting non-perishable freight unaccompanied is faster and more cost effective than relying on driver-accompanied hauliers between Europe and the UK. It says its new service introduced by DFDS between Calais and Sheerness based on this model has enjoyed three-fold growth in the last year. The service ...
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UPS Healthcare has will open its first dedicated healthcare logistics facility in Giessen, north of Frankfurt Germany in 2023. It will offer access to the fast-growing European healthcare markets, supporting pharmaceutical, medical device and biologics producers needing time-critical and temperature sensitive logistics for their products.
President of UPS Healthcare, Wes Wheeler, ...
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Envirotainerhas launched its Releye RAP temperature-controlled airfreight container, complemented by its new Control Tower managed service. With a five-pallet capacity, it is the largest of the company’s new generation Releye containers and is designed to meet the strictest requirements for pharmaceuticals. Integrated live monitoring gives insight into product condition, location ...
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Forth Ports has acquired OM Heavy Lift (OMHL) to enhance its heavy lift plant and logistics capability in offshore renewables and decommissioning.
OMHL is a well-established project engineering company that has worked closely with Forth Ports on a number of large-scale projects. Based in Dundee, OMHL operates a fleet of specialist ...
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Danish-based global forwarding and logistics company DSV reported 59% growth in revenue and 71% growth in operating profit for 2021. All three business areas – Air & Sea, Road and Solutions – contributed to the growth. In a year that saw unprecedented supply chain disruption, DSV acquired Middle East forwarder ...
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US headquartered global operator XPO Logistics said its fourth quarter 2021 revenue increased to $3.36 billion for the fourth quarter, compared with $2.94 billion for the same period in 2020. Net income from continuing operations was $126 million for the fourth quarter, compared with $34 million for the same period ...
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There has been a clear increase in costs, paperwork and border delays for UK business since Brexit, not helped by repeated delays to new import regime, says the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee in a report published on 9 February.
EU Exit: UK Border Post transition says that while trade volumes ...
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