January 2023
German based logistics buying group Xstaff has appointed Stephan Schiller as managing director and partner. He was most recently managing director of Hermes Europe and chief executive of Hermes International and will lead the group with founder Bodo Knop and chief growth officer Antonios Rigalos.
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Coyne Airways is now listing freighter capacity with the Airblox.com online marketplace for standardized electronic block space agreements. The platform currently lists over 2000 lanes.
Larry Coyne, founder and chief executive of the cargo airline, which caters to the pharma, fresh produce, live animals and heavy and oversized shipment markets, said ...
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DP World says its Southampton container terminal enjoyed its greenest ever year in 2022 after delivering a 55% reduction in net carbon emissions from its fleet and installations.
Southampton plans to become the first port in the UK to eliminate fossil diesel from its operations entirely and transition to Hydrotreated Vegetable ...
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Geodis has appointed Stéphanie Hervé as group executive vice president, contract logistics, David-Olivier Tarac, group chief financial officer and Amaury Valicon, Group chief performance officer.
Stéphanie Hervé started her career in 1996 as a logistics solution designer at FM Logistics and joined Geodis in 1998 and was appointed chief operating officer ...
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Maersk has signed a contract with Shanghai Free Trade Zone for a 113,000sq m logistics centre at Lin-gang. The US$174 million centre is expected to start operations in the third quarter of 2024 and will provide services, including international export consolidation, regional and global order fulfilment and distribution and cross ...
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The government has launched a £7 million fund to help small to medium-sized businesses to develop greener and more efficient solutions for freight.
Over the next three years, the Freight Innovation Fund (FIF) will go to up to 36 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who will then work with industry-leading companies ...
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AV Dawson, owner and operator of Port of Middlesbrough has restructured its board of directors for furture growth and long-term succession.
Former managing director Gary Dawson becomes chairman of the AV Dawson Group of companies. John Young, the former financial director becomes deputy chairman.
They will concentrate on the overall direction of ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) says it has become the first UK port operator to trial a hydrogen fuelled tractor, at its Immingham container terminal.
This joint pilot project received funding from ORE Catapult through Innovate UK’s Hydrogen Innovation Initiative (HII), following funding of initial feasibility from the Department for Transport’s Clean ...
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Forth Ports Leith says it has become the first large mainland commercial port in Scotland to provide a shore power connection.
The Victoria 1, which is currently being provided by the Scottish Government to accommodate Ukrainian refugees, is the first vessel to receive the connection within the Imperial Dock in the ...
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CLIVE Data Services, part of Xeneta, said that the global air cargo market ended December 2022 with a fall in chargeable weight of 8% compared with a year ago while the general airfreight spot rate registered its largest year-on-year decline of 35%. However, overall average rates remained 75% above the ...
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