November 2022
Abu Dhabi Airports has joined the Pharma.Aero global network for life science and medtech manufacturers, as a strategic member representing the Middle East.It said the collaboration would build on Abu Dhabi’s growth as a global healthcare and life sciences hub, and the success of the HOPE Consortium, an Abu Dhabi-led public private partnership that is committed to working together to overcome the challenges of vaccine distribution and logistics.Abu Dhabi Airports ...
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TT Club is calling for everyone in the supply chain to take responsibility for container ship fires. With serious fires occurring every 60 days on average, the freight and logistics insurer is once more urging a more comprehensive approach to halting the trend.
“There were significant lessons coming from the sad ...
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The Seafarers' Wages Bill, introduced in the wake of P&O Ferries’ mass sackings of workers earlier in the year, has passed to the House of Commons for examination. It follows completion of its third reading in the House of Lords on 7 November. The legislation seeks to improve pay for ...
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DB Schenker is making biofuel available for all its air freight following its purchase of over 11,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Customers can choose SAF for their air transport anywhere in the world and independent of the type of aircraft or airline used. It is possible to avoid ...
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AP Moller-Maersk has broken ground on a 100,000sq m warehouse in Calamba, near Manila in the Philippines. The highly-automated site will have a 75,000-pallet storage capacity and is expected to be completed by the end of 2023. It is also building a new 100,000sq ft facility in Chattogram, Bangladesh for ...
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Hapag-Lloyd said that its group profit climbed to US$14.7 billion in the first nine months of 2022 thanks to higher freight rates. However, it added that the market environment has deteriorated in the third quarter with falling spot rates and rising costs. Transport volumes were on a par with the ...
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Brittany Ferries said freight traffic has struggled to recover to pre-Covid 2019 levels, in its annual figures for the 12 months to the end of October 2022. Freight was down 27% on UK/France routes, and 22% on UK/Spain.
The relatively small Ireland/France and Ireland/Spain markets showed gains of 606% and 172% ...
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Europa Road is to open its first site in Ireland in Dublin and another Gatwick in January 2023. It brings the operator’s total offices in the UK and Ireland to 18, following the addition of branches in Cambridge, Liverpool and Cardiff earlier in the year.
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Freight forwarder Davies Turner has signed an agreement with Transport Equipment Services to provide a dedicated truck fleet to move containers to and from the ports of Felixstowe, London Gateway and Southampton. With the domestic and international haulage market still in a difficult situation, with a lack of drivers, port ...
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The Celtic Freeport consortium has appointed Roger Maggs as its chair. The consortium partners – Associated British Ports, Neath Port Talbot Council, Pembrokeshire County Council and the Port of Milford Haven – aim to create a green investment corridor covering the ports of Milford Haven and Port Talbot to boost ...
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