March 2022
Felixstowe has become the largest UK port to deploy 5G technology and the Internet of Things (IoT).
The Port of Felixstowe along with consortium members, Three UK, Blue Mesh Solutions and the University of Cambridge gained grant funding under the government 5G Testbeds and Trials programme for a project to prove 5G’s capabilities in a busy port environment.
Six quay cranes are being fitted with IoT Sensors to understand the stresses and ...
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Europa’s Air & Sea forwarding arm has appointed has appointed general manager, Hugo Feng to run its new Shanghai operation. Europa is also in the process of hiring a sales manager and a business development manager.
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is asking its members for their views on current container shipping line practices, as well as their opinions on the easements and exemptions provided to them under competition law.
BIFA director general, Robert Keen, says that over the last several months, he has received many ...
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The Daily Telegraph has reported that UK-based CargoLogicAir, would not be subject to sanctions as its owner, Alexey Isaikin, is a Cypriot citizen. This is in spite of his earlier involvement with Russian all-cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr Group, operator of the AirBridgeCargo fleet now banned from Europe and the US. CargoLogicAir ...
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The global air cargo market continued to catch up with pre-pandemic levels in February as freight volumes, capacity and load factors stabilised close to 2019’s performance, with rates also slowly trending downwards, according to the latest data from CLIVE Data Services.
Chargeable weight in February was at -0.7% to the pre-Covid ...
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Peel Ports will switch to greener fuels for straddle carriers and plant equipment across most of its estate by 31 March.
It has been working closely with manufacturers such as JCB, Terberg and Combi-lift, with testing of the new fuels starting in November last year.
The plan is for 45% of plant ...
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UK-based charter company Air Charter Service (ACS) has arranged its first cargo relief flights in aid of refugees from the war in Ukraine. The first, a 737 freighter from the UK to Rzeszów – about 30 miles from the Ukraine border – took place on 2 March and ACS says ...
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Metro Supply Chain Holdings (UK) Limited, a division of Canadian-based Metro Supply Chain has acquired Suffolk-based Century Logistics.
Located on the A14 corridor between the Midlands and the port of Felixstowe, Century Logistics provides warehousing, co-packing, ecommerce fulfillment, product repairs and product return services and manages seven distribution sites.
Metro Supply Chain ...
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Coventry-based forwarder Retail Transport Services has raised over £10,000 for the Children’s Air Ambulance to celebrate 20 years in business. Events included marathons, pub quizzes and a boxing match which was featured in the BBC’s ‘We are England’ documentary.
The final total was doubled by the directors of the company, Dave ...
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the UK has passed a law banning ships with "any Russian connection" from entering its ports .He claimed the UK was the first nation to pass such a law."
On 28 February, the UK told its ports not to handle Russian-registered or flagged ships ahead of ...
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