January 2023

Two new directors for UK and Irish forwarder KRL

UK and Ireland-based forwarding business KRL has appointed David Flaherty operations director UK & IE and Greig Allan as commercial director UK and IE. Both are internal promotions. Based in Crawley for over 30 years, KRL provides multimodal capabilities from seven locations across the two countries. Greig Allan (main picture, right) began his career in logistics at P&O Nedlloyd in Southampton and then Glasgow before joining drinks specialist JH Hillebrand, followed by ... [+]

DHL is automatic choice for fashion retailer

DHL Supply Chain, the contract logistics specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, is operating a robot picking system at a logistics centre in Staufenberg, Lower Saxony for fashion retailer, Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf. The 6,000sq m AutoStore system manufactured by Element Logic is one of the largest fully-automated storage and order ... [+]

BIFA webinar to offer ICS2 insights

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is partnering with software-as-a-service firm Descartes Systems to deliver a members-only webinar on the Import Control System Release 2 on 1 February. ICS2 is due to go live on 1 March.ICS2 is a new and updated customs electronic import system that is applicable to ... [+]

Clearing the air over Southampton

Associated British Ports (ABP) has updated its Southampton Air Quality Strategy, Cleaner Air for Southampton. First published in 2018, the report outlines a number of measures that have been undertaken by ABP, its customers, shipping lines and wider stakeholders across the port to deliver improvements in air quality. Over the past 12 ... [+]

Geodis deal puts wind in sail pioneer’s sales

Sealogis, a subsidiary of French-owned forwarder Geodis, has signed a partnership agreement with Zéphyr & Borée, a French start-up pioneer that is designing sail-powered cargo ships. Sealogis will be responsible for presenting, promoting and marketing the services of Zéphyr & Borée to shippers and forwarders. The shipping company, based in Lorient in ... [+]

Oakland to expand distressed load service

Retail logistics company Oakland International plans to expand its accredited distressed load management service over the coming year. It follows a move to a dedicated purpose-built hub in 2022. The DLM service helps save unnecessary product from going to waste. A spoiled or distressed load can be a costly problem for ... [+]

Etihad adds eighth Shanghai freighter

Etihad Cargo will introduce an additional weekly Abu Dhabi–Shanghai freighter flight from 2 February. It increases the carrier’s weekly dedicated freighter flights between Shanghai and its Abu Dhabi hub to eight per week, and raises capacity out of Shanghai to 850 tons. [+]

New platform to ease EU security compliance

The iCustoms platform has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based customs software solution to help businesses comply with the Import Control System 2 (ICS2) which comes into force on 1 March. From that date, all economic operators based outside the EU that move goods to or via the European Union by air ... [+]

Seeing sense over plastic pollution

UK-based cargo management company Magma Aviation has transported over plastic-free biodegradable 1,000kg flip flops free for the Sea Sense non-profit group. Sea Sense produces the flip flops to help fund its efforts to clean up plastics in the oceans. It works with grassroots organisations and communities in Sierra Leone, Kenya and ... [+]

XPO appoints IT leader

XPO has appointed David Picking to lead the company's technology organisation in the UK and Ireland. He has more than three decades of technology leadership experience in the retail, pharmaceutical, leisure, and logistics sectors. Prior to XPO, he served as chief information officer – EMEIA for Likewize, a global technology ... [+]

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