July 2022
The 33 millionth truck crossed the Channel aboard the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight service on Monday 12 July. It belonged to Nordfrost, the biggest German frozen and chilled food transporter to the UK and a customer that has used the service since its opening in 1994. The driver, Rene Schwarze, has been driving for over 13 years and in that time has used the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight service over ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to introduce a thrice-weekly freighter flight between London Heathrow and Billund Airport in Denmark, operated by a Titan Airways Airbus A321F.
The flights, on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, will replace trucking links, and will have a capacity of 28 tonnes per flight says the carrier.
The new route ...
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American Airlines Cargo is now offering customers full access to its US network through Freightos’ WebCargo and 7L Freight platforms. The carrier, which operates more than 5,000 daily departures from the US, says it now provides a larger network for flights in and out of the US on WebCargo than ...
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Europa has celebrated the second birthday of its Corby warehouse. The 300-strong team handle practically any product type, from cosmetics and perfumes to components, electricals and general consumer goods. There are now 11 teams operating across six production lines and two e-commerce shop operations, with support from specific pick and ...
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Terminal Investment Limited (TiL), the sole shareholder of the TPO/TNMSC container terminals at Le Havre, has announced a €700 million investment programme to prepare the port for 24,000 TEU vessels. TiL will double the number of gantry cranes to 20 and triple the terminal’s storage capacity with fleet gantries at ...
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DHL has teamed up with Coldplay as the official logistics partner Music Of The Spheres world tour – with a remit to minimise its carbon and reduce CO2 emissions by more than 50%.
DHL’s GoGreen Plus Service offers including use of advanced biofuels for ocean and air freight along with an ...
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DFDS is investing in a new Kuenz rail-mounted gantry crane in the port of Ghent, Belgium. It will increase capacity and enable cost-effectiveness and will be powered by renewable energy from, among other things, DFDS’s solar panels, taking the company one step closer to its CO2-neutrality target.
Terminal director, Raf De ...
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AV Dawson, owner and operator of Port of Middlesbrough, has unveiled new head office.
The 24,000 sq ft facility, named The Staiths, celebrates both heritage and the future of the port and town as the next chapter of the firm’s expansion.
The name originates from the coal staiths at the old Port ...
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Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight transported 125,672 trucks in June 2022, an increase of 9% compared to June 2021. For the half year, almost 767,000 trucks have crossed the Channel aboard the Shuttles, an increase of 19% over the same period of 2021.
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The UK Major Ports Groups says the government has addressed some of its concerns in its Seafarers' Wages Bill. The Bill is aimed at ensuring seafarers spending substantial time in UK waters are paid an equivalent to the National Minimum Wage and is part of the Department of Transport's nine ...
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