April 2022
Logistics operator the Malcolm Group unveiled a Class 90 electric locomotive in its centenary year livery on 19 April at Peter D. Stirling’s Mossend Railhead in Bellshill, near Glasgow. It is dedicated to Donald Malcolm, who built the company up from a coal round to today’s major logistics operation. Malcolm Group is a major user of rail freight on Anglo-Scottish routes. Its Malcolm Rail division itself celebrated 20 years in ...
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Europa Road has introduced five new Renault T range trucks to its 50-strong fleet as part of its drive to improve driver comfort.
Operations director Dan Cook, said the move was in response to the expansion of the full and part load unaccompanied business and an increase in in-house port haulage. ...
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Darlington-based Exis Technologies, which provides IT solutions for the management of dangerous goods by sea, has been shortlisted for two North East Business Awards, in the Innovation and Technology and Small Business categories.
Winners will be announced at a Teesside Business Awards ceremony on 23 June. If successful, Exis will then ...
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Freight transport insurer TT Club is calling for increased vigilance after a spate of fires involving lithium batteries in seafreight. With the number of consumer products using such batteries increasing exponentially and new restrictions on the airfreight for such goods coming into force on 1 April, greater volumes are being ...
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The Action for Primates project has appealed to Egyptair to stop carrying monkeys and similar creatures to be used in research and toxicity testing. The group says that it has been transporting long-tailed macaques (from Cambodia and Mauritius to the USA. One such shipment took place on 16th March 2022, ...
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Southampton-based Ecommerce Supply Chain – trading as 4PLinks - has joined the Pall-Ex and Fortec pallet networks as a shareholder member. Founded in 2017, 4Plinks offers general and container haulage, customs clearance, warehousing and Amazon fulfilment. It will cover the SP1-6 and SP9-11 postcodes for the two networks.
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Dubai-based Shipa Freight, the digital forwarding arm of Agility – itself now owned by DSV – is to merge with Barcelona-based online freight platform, iContainers.
Shipa Freight and iContainers will combine technology platforms and operations and the combined company, wholly owned by Agility, will be one of the top-five most-visited online ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) says that the spate of recent media reports that the government is considering another delay to the introduction of post-Brexit border checks on goods entering Britain from the EU, comes as no great surprise.
Robert Keen, Director General of the British International Freight Association (BIFA) ...
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Brittany Ferries has given the go-ahead to a new rail freight link between Cherbourg and Bayonne. The ferry company first announced the rail project back in February 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 crisis hit, but while the project was delayed, it was never cancelled, it says
During the pause, Brittany Ferries ...
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More than 50 trade union leaders from across the globe have descended on the London offices of the Dubai-based owner of DP World, to protest against the sacking of almost 800 workers at its subsidiary, P&O Ferries.
The say that by allowing its P&O Ferries’ management to sack a unionised workforce ...
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