July 2022

Strong first half for Dublin Port

Dublin Port’s volumes for the first six months of the year grew by +10.1% to 18.6 million gross tonnes in the first half of 2022. Four-fifths of cargo volumes were ro-ro and lo-lo modes and the number of trailers and containers that passed through Dublin Port in the first half of 2022 increased year-on-year by +7.6% to 742,000. But trade vehicle imports declined by -3.6% to 47,000 in the first half of ... [+]

Arvato sets up state-of-the-art system in Dortmund

German-headquartered logistics company Arvato Supply Chain Solutions - a division of Bertelsmann - has put a new hall with one of the largest AutoStore storage systems in Europe in Dortmund, and now the company has its sights on expanding its warehouse in the industrial core region of Dorsten/Marl, about 20km ... [+]

DSV doubles forwarding earnings

DSV says its Air & Sea forwarding division achieved a 105% increase in EBIT earnings in the first half of 2022 amid strong half-year results in all divisions and regions. Gross profit grew 61% in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021, supported by the ... [+]

Women in Aviation and Logistics to be non-profit

The Women in Aviation and Logistics (WAL) group has been established as a not-for-profit Association and is now open for formal membership for both corporations and individuals. WAL was launched on International Women’s Day 2021 as a movement for change aimed at mobilising the industry to work towards closing the workplace ... [+]

Forwarder helps support refugee youngsters

Austrian forwarder Cargo-partner is supporting an aid project for Ukrainian children and young people in Moldova. The international transport and logistics provider is working with Jugend Eine Welt and their project partner Salesians of Don Bosco to help children and young people in Moldova who have been displaced from Ukraine ... [+]

Trans.eu keeps it confidential

The Trans.eu logistics platform has developed a private exchange allowing forwarders to invite hauliers to their own secure and private digital space. Private Freight Exchange aims to speed up communication between forwarders and hauliers that have already established a positive working relationship. Trans.eu chief executive Aleksandra Marszałek says the exchange ... [+]

Switching to CDS made easy with new BIFA checklists

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has prepared two documents that its members can send to their customers in order to collect the information that is required from them and which highlights the additional complexity of completing a CDS declaration compared with the old Chief system. The first document covers the ... [+]

New crane to boost P&O Zeebrugge-Hull sailings

P&O Ferries has doubled its loading capacity at its Zeebrugge hub with a secondlift-on, lift-off crane. It will also enable P&O Ferries to increase frequency on its Hull to Zeebrugge route to six weekly sailings. It also operates routes from Zeebrugge to Tilbury and to Teesport. Managing director of P&O Ferries Freight ... [+]

Shippers’ group demands action on liner block exemption

Ten trade organisations, including the Global Shippers Forum and the Clecat and Fiata forwarders’ groups are demanding an immediate start to the review of European Union’s Consortia Block Exemption for the industry, in a letter to the Commission The regulation exempts container shipping lines from many of the checks and balances ... [+]

Rotterdam trade up, despite Russia embargo

The Port of Rotterdam said on 22 July that its total cargo throughput was 0.8% higher in the first half of the year (233.5 million tonnes) than in the same period in 2021 (231.6 million tonnes), despite the war in Ukraine. Container transport to and from Russia has come to a ... [+]

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