February 2023
DFDS has appointed McBurney Transport director Carolyn Carmichael managing director of the new entity following its purchase of Northern Ireland-based McBurney Transport Group. McBurney Transport will become part of the Logistics Division’s Cold Chain business unit. DFGDS added that integration is expected to be completed within a year, except for the IT integration which is planned subsequently.
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has launched a sustainability strategy, Ready for Tomorrow (RFT), backed by a plan to invest around £2 billion in decarbonising its operations by 2040 and in major infrastructure projects to enable wider UK energy transition.
It identifies five focus areas for action: Net Zero, air quality, biodiversity, ...
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FIATA (International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations) has called on shipping lines to restore free time periods for containers to pre-pandemic levels. It describes the earlier decision to reduce free time during the recent shipping disruption as one-sided and says that conditions have now changed.
FIATA does acknowledge that traders do ...
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DHL Supply Chain has made a donation to FoodCloud, an Irish social enterprise tackling the twin issues of food waste and food insecurity.
It will be used to fund the lease and maintenance of 11 vans. FoodCloud works with a network of Irish charities, community groups and retailers to collect and ...
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Dutch shortsea operator WEC Lines has expanded its service into the Port of Liverpool with new weekly calls from Northern Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Canary Islands.
The services are in addition to the existing Portuguese and Spanish routes which have called at the port since 2019.
The new direct weekly ...
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Air Partner’s Charter division has delivered about 200 tonnes of aid to victims of the Turkey-Syria earthquake It delivered blankets and tents from India by A330F aircraft and from the UAE by B747F to help those in need survive the winter.
Vice President of the Global Cargo division, Pierre Van Der ...
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Röhlig Logistics is providing financial and practical support to the Pebbles Project, a South African non-profit organisation supporting children and families from farming communities in the Western Cape area.
The owner-managed company holds its Global Conference with global leadership staff in a different country of its network every year where it ...
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XPO is operating a three-month trial to use overnight rail to move shared user pallet network traffic from the Midlands to Scotland. The rail service is provided by Malcolm Logistics.
XPO first introduced a road-rail option in the UK in 2022, combining full truckload transport and daytime rail service for pipe ...
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DSV is participating in a project that might one day make it possible for electric trucks to recharge while driving, using an overhead contact line. The Danish-owned forwarder is taking part in the ELISA eHighway scheme in Frankfurt, Germany to test the concept.
Overhead electric wires will give on on-the-go charging ...
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Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen have agreed a deal on new post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, after months of behind-the-scenes negotiations.
Full details of the plan have yet to be revealed, but it includes green and red lanes for trade arriving into Northern Ireland from ...
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