December 2022
DSV has opened a 380,000sq ft temperature-controlled warehouse in Northampton. The BREEAM ‘Outstanding’-certified building will be one of the largest in the logistics and forwarding company’s Midlands portfolio and will significantly increase its UK footprint.
It will incorporate DSV Solutions UK’s largest GDP-compliant temperature-controlled solution for large and small healthcare companies that need to be able to scale their stocks quickly.
It has 36 dock-leveller bay doors, two ground level unloading bays, ...
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The Welsh Government has decided to postpone plans to introduce pre-notification for certain sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) goods products imported to Wales from the Republic of Ireland. It follows concerns by stakeholders over the available time before 1 January 2023 to prepare, said Minister for Economy, Vaughan Gething.
Introduction of prenotification ...
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Geodis has opened a multi-user logistics facility at Aurach, near Nuremberg in southern Germany. It has 26,757 Euro pallet spaces in the high-bay warehouse and 9,000sq m of block storage space and is equipped with a photovoltaic system. It will offer a range of services such as distribution of large ...
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Fashion operation system CALA has joined with SEKO Logistics to launch a pricing engine for the fashion and lifestyle sector.
The partners say that it incorporates the most comprehensive door-to-door total landed cost calculator, factoring in product type, material type, number of units, time of year and destination and considers dozens ...
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Global trade in containerisable goods continued the decline observed at the end of Quarter 2 during the third quarter of 2022, but the drop in overall volumes was much less than that reported by the container shipping sector, said the latest issue of the Container Shipping Market Review published by ...
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Software as a service platform Customs4trade (C4T) has gained ISO 27001:2017 and ISO 9001:2015 certification, the internationally recognised standard for security and compliance. It demonstrates that C4T has invested in its people, processes, technology, and quality.
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Europa Worldwide Group is to double its current office space at Eurocentral in Glasgow and 13 new jobs will be created at the firm’s Lanarkshire base over the coming year. This is in addition to a new three-year lease arrangement agreed on the existing area Europa currently occupies at Maxim ...
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French forwarder GEODIS has signed an agreement to acquire German temperature controlled express carrier Trans-o-flex. Founded in 1971, it specialises in pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, automotive and the high-tech industries and has since 2016 been owned by the Schoeller and Amberger families. Current chairman of the advisory board Christoph Schoeller and ...
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Saudia Cargo is to bring more of its capacity onto the Cargo.one digital marketplace, following a collaboration deal signed 1½ years ago. To date, forwarders using cargo.one have booked thousands of shipments across Saudia’s global network on its dedicated freighter and passenger fleets, over 50% of them to destinations outside ...
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Bournemouth Airport-based European Cargo has received EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) certification for its Airbus A340 wide-bodied freighter conversion programme. The company plans to complete six freighters in early 2023, with options on a further six.
Two have already been completed and one more was in progress in late December.
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