November 2022
DP World has launched a new intermodal rail service to link its container terminals at London Gateway and Southampton. The port operator says it will boost the resilience of the customers’ supply chains and enable them to switch volumes quickly and easily between the two UK locations.
The service – which ran for the first-time last weekend – is scheduled every Saturday carrying cargo including fresh fruit, beverages and consumer goods ...
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) and its local member associations have called on the European Commission to prioritise TIR trucks to ease lengthy border queues between Ukraine and the EU.
Truck queues at borders between Ukraine and neighbouring European countries are regularly exceeding 40km, it says, stranding drivers for days ...
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Kuehne+Nagel has put its first Boeing 747-8 freighter into operation under its long-term charter agreement with Atlas Air. The Swiss-based forwarder is chartering the entire capacity of the very last two 747-8F aircraft being delivered by Boeing. The plane, which will operate Transpacific and intra-Asia routings, was handed over at ...
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Kenyan President William Ruto has inaugurated the first section of an upgraded 560km highway along East Africa’s Northern corridor. It is being built as part of a wider EU package of support to create 11 strategic transport corridors across Africa under the €150 billion Global Gateway EU-Africa Investment Package. The ...
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CMA CGM is now offering weekly sailings on its Jeddex feeder service between Jeddah and the Indian Ocean. Port rotation is Jeddah–Mombasa–Longoni–Mombasa–Jeddah-Ain Sukhna–Aqaba–Jeddah. The route is served six vessels of up to 1,700TEU.
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Unifeeder has launched a new service between the Baltic Sea and the UK. Southbound it connects Klaipeda, Riga and Gdansk to London Gateway and Felixstowe, along with Kotka to Wilhelmshaven. Northbound it links London Gateway and Felixstowe to Kotka as well as Wilhelmshaven to Gdansk, Klaipeda and Riga. Unifeeder adds ...
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German forwarder Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is launching three specialised industry solutions - Consumer Goods, Technology and Industrial. The three new verticals complement Hellmann's five existing industry solutions for the automotive, cruise fashion, pharmaceutical and renewable energies. While the "Consumer Goods" sector focuses primarily on global transportation solutions by providing the ...
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Kiburi, a Western Lowland gorilla, has made his debut at London Zoo thanks to DHL Express. The logistics company flew the 193kg, 5ft 4ft tall gentle giant from a zoo in Tenerife to the UK as part of an international breeding programme for critically endangered species.
The 18-year-old joins females Mjukuu ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has added Hanoi to its B777F freighter network in the winter flight schedule for 2022/23. The inaugural flight, operated by an AeroLogic aircraft, took place on 2 November from Frankfurt and, with a stop in Mumbai, reached Hanoi on 3 November. The twice weekly flights complement Lufthansa Cargo’s ...
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Antonov Airlines and broker Air Partner have moved an aircraft engine and critical tooling from Luxembourg to Lajes island in the Azores, on board one of the Ukranian carrier’s AN-124-100M aircraft.
The cargo weighing about 75 tonnes was loaded using the aircraft equipment and an external 48-ton mobile crane sourced by ...
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