January 2023
Fraud is the biggest threat to cargo, says insurer the TT Club.
The Club says that the almost exclusive use of online facilities to process business transactions allows a myriad of fraudulent pursuits including payment fraud that involves existing mandates and impersonation of executives to procurement fraud featuring false invoicing.
Carrier fraud, in which criminals imitate hauliers and other sub-contractors, including drivers with falsified documents, accounted for 84% of TT fraud or ...
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The Multimodal Awards 2023 are now open for entries. This year two of the Awards categories, Road and 3PL, have been split to ensure that smaller firms also get the recognition they deserve during the voting stages.
Winners will be chosen by Multimodal newsletter readers and the exhibitors and visitors to ...
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DHL has renewed its contract with electric car race organisers, Formula E and DHL, with a multi-year partnership.
With 40 years of international motorsport experience, DHL is Formula E’s official founding partner helping to set up the inaugural race in Beijing in 2014. Since then, DHL has supported Formula E through ...
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German broker NEO Air Charter has appointed Ian Flett to the new position of regional sales manager, Nordic Region. He is based in Denmark. He speaks four languages and will promote the company’s services to forwarders and logistics service providers with customers in the industrial- , government- and humanitarian aid ...
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Stena Line has launched its second E-Flexer vessel, the Stena Ebba on the Karlskrona-Gdynia route. It follows the introduction of sister Stena Estelle in September 2022 on the same route.
Stena Ebba is one of the largest ferries in regular operations in the Baltic Sea. She is 240 metres long, and ...
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Logistics met the Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly on 11 January to discuss the impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol on NI trade, along with solutions to provide future trading certainty.
Head of trade and devolved policy at Logistics UK, Nichola Mallon, commented: “We emphasised the need for a negotiated outcome between ...
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Kenya-based Astral-aviation has switched its representation in Europe, United Kingdom (UK), and US from Network Airline Services to Air Logistics Group.
The carrier’s chief executive Sanjeev Gadhia said the new commercial partnership would allow it to offer more opportunities to its clients as well as increase market-share for its new perishables ...
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Magma Aviation, a subsidiary of broker Chapman Freeborn, has appointed James Gilliard as head of commercial.
He brings 20 years of aviation industry experience and joins the business after two and a half years at IAG Cargo in London as regional sales manager. Prior to that, he held a number of ...
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UPS Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) has opened a facility in Madrid, Spain. The 6,500sq m (69,965sq ft) premises will be a main point of distribution for the Iberian Peninsula for the tech and healthcare industries.
With 7500 pallet positions and 25000 shelf locations, the facility is also LEED Gold certified with ...
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Antonov Airlines and XPO subsidiary RXO Air Transport have moved CNC machinery from Milan, Italy to Hamilton, Canada in two flights on one of the Ukranian carrier’s AN-124-100 aircraft.
The 169-ton cargo consisted of five pieces including three unusually high and narrow machines used to manufacture electric vehicle parts in one ...
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