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March 2022

Digital air broker recruits tech guru

Digital air cargo broker CharterSync has appointed Andy Evans as its non-executive director. Over the last 20 years, he has founded, built and sold three media and technology businesses including one of the UK's first digital publishing businesses and the UK's first podcast production company in 2005. [+]

ABP appoints finance chief

Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Mani Atwal as its new head of group finance. He is currently group financial controller for Qatargas, the world’s largest liquefied natural gas company. He will take up his role on 2 May. [+]

B&H moves on-airport in New Zealand

Aerospace logistics specialist B&H Worldwide has moved its New Zealand operation to a new on-airport site at Auckland Airport.  The company has been operating in the country since 2012. It gives easy access to all facilities at the largest and busiest airport in the country. In addition to warehousing and ... [+]

PD Ports takes Maritime award

PD Ports has won the Business of the Year title at the Maritime UK Awards in Glasgow. The category sought a business that has demonstrated a real understanding of its target market whilst also showing impressive growth and sustainability across a number of factors including job creation and national and ... [+]

More finance for truck relay firm

Spanish road freight relay operator Trucksters has raised a new €8 million investment following its €6.3 million Series A financing round in July 2021. The capital increase raises the total Series A round at a grand total of 14.3 million euros and will be used to triple the size of ... [+]

Bartz to take over as Rhenus boss

Tobias Bartz will take over as chief executive and chairman of the management board at German forwarder Rhenus Group on 1 April. He will succeed Klemens Rethmann who has held the position since 2008. Bartz began his professional career as a management trainee at Rhenus in 2005 and was appointed ... [+]

Multimodal set to welcome 9,000 visitors

The Multimodal exhibition and conference on 14-16 June at Birmingham NEC is on track to welcome over 9,000 visitors with 250 companies signed up to exhibit, say the organisers. Maersk and DP World will set the scene in a discussion chaired by Peter Livey, managing director (Great Britain) and global environmental ... [+]

Qatar Airways offers a thoroughbred service

Qatar Airways Cargo has transported 190 of the world’s finest horses to and from equestrian events in Qatar and Saudi Arabia recently.   They include the Amir Sword Festival in Doha, the Saudi Cup in Riyadh and the Longines Global Champions Tour in Doha. The horses came from Ireland, the UK and ... [+]

Pall-Ex Europe network delivers aid to Ukraine

Pall-Ex is using its European pallet network to deliver aid to Ukraine, coordinating collections in the UK at its central Leicestershire hub for transport to its Poland hub in Łódź. This service is being donated by Pall-Ex Group’s UK to Poland linehaul partner based in Gdansk, PKS. From here, the aid will ... [+]

Lockdowns, not Ukraine pose biggest threat to China supply chain, says expert

Covid lockdowns could cause greater damage to China's supply chain than the Russia-Ukraine crisis, says the  Container xChange logistics platform in its latest analysis. It says that, two weeks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there seems to be a negligible impact on container prices and leasing rates in China while container ... [+]

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