July 2022
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has become the first cargo terminal and logistics corporation to have its training courses received accreditation under the Hong Kong Qualifications Framework (HKQF). The courses covered are Hactl’s Certificate in Special and Temperature Controlled Cargo Handling For Supervisors (QF Level 3); its Certificate in Dangerous Goods Awareness Training For Handlers (QF Level 2); its Certificate in Conflict Resolution (QF Level 3); and its ...
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UPS has launched a five times a week Boeing 747-8 freighter flight to Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, India. It is the carrier’s second dedicated airport gateway facility in India after opening Delhi in 2020. The Bengaluru facility will provide in-house customs clearance and serve southern India, giving customers an ...
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Second-hand container prices are plummeting due to oversupply, said box trading and leasing firm Container xChange in its latest analysis. It said that congestion at ports in early 2020 led to the panic ordering of record numbers of new boxes and, with markets reopening and demand softening, there is now ...
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CMA CGM’s Containerships arm launched a weekly Scottish Express (SCX) service between Grangemouth, Teesport and Rotterdam with the arrival of the 800TEU Skylight in Scotland on 19 July.
The new SCX service, which calls in Grangemouth on Thursday, will mainly support exports from Leven and Shieldhall to worldwide destinations via continental ...
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Peel Ports Group chief executive, Claudio Veritiero has urged the government to partner with port and maritime companies to help meet its objectives on levelling-up, net zero and economic growth.
Claudio Veritiero, who took over at Peel Ports in April, says that the sector is ideally placed to provide benefits and ...
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DP World’s Imperial Logistics arm has marked 50 years of operations at the port of Fürth in Germany. The port is a handling centre for construction materials and agricultural goods for the region.
The inland port handled its first goods via the Main-Danube canal on 15 July 1972.
Today, Fürth is mainly ...
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EV Cargo has made two appointments following its acquisition of Netherlands-headquartered Fast Forward Freight in March. The latter’s former chief executive Marc Terpstra has been appointed as vice president Europe at EV Cargo while former Fast Forward Freight chief financial officer Robert Van Breugel has taken on the role of ...
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Runcorn-headquartered forwarder Maltacourt has opened a new office in Birmingham. It will be led by Kelly Taylor who joins the Maltacourt board of directors.
It follows opening of a new office in Felixstowe in June and Manchester at the beginning of the year.
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Austrian-based forwarder Cargo-partner has made an offer to acquire one third of its partner Sim Cargo, a provider of smart groupage solutions. Cargo-partner has been part of the groupage network and a system partner of Sim Cargo for many years now, especially for distribution in Central and Eastern Europe. Should ...
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European forwarders’ group CLECAT says it welcomes International Transport Forum’s call for more regulatory attention on the door-to-door container market.
The ITF has published an independent report on the performance of maritime container supply chains, bringing together data it has collected over the last couple of years on the ocean carriers’ ...
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