February 2023
AP Moller-Maersk (Maersk) has signed an agreement to divest its logistics sites in St. Petersburg and Novorossiysk to IG Finance Development. It follows the company’s decision in March 2022 to discontinue activities in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. The 28,750sq m inland depot in Novorossiysk specialises in handling commercial cargo such as grains from railway wagons to sea containers. The chilled and frozen warehouse in St. Petersburg is a ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has signed a multi-year agreement with Shell Western to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the line ultra large 23,500teu dual-fuel container vessels. Bunkering for the 12 new vessels is expected to commence during the second half of 2023 in the Port of Rotterdam. They will be deployed on ...
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CMA CGM’s Safram service from London Gateway and north-west Continental ports is to add a call at Rio Grande, Brazil from 4 April. The new rotation will be: London, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Tanger, Santos, Paranagua, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Paranagua, Santos, Tanger, London. The Mediterranean Sirius service will at ...
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Following the recent earthquake, shipping companies such as Maersk and COSCO Shipping Lines have changed the destination of bookings to Iskenderun port in Turkey to nearby hubs including Mersin, which is expected to lead to congestion in those hubs says business intelligent firm, Smart Cube.
Director of procurement and supply chain ...
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IAG Cargo will charge a £10 fee for using paper air waybills (AWB) from 3 April, while eAWBs will be free of charge. The eAWB has been introduced as part of IAG Cargo’s ‘Destination Digital’ strategy to transform its business. With nearly 50% of customers already using eAWB, IAG Cargo ...
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Airfreight IT firm Champ Cargosystems has completed conformance testing in preparation of the new EU-ICS2 (Import Control System 2) regulation in March. Its Traxon Global Customs (TGC) and Traxon Global Security (TGS) products are now AS4 certified and ICS2 compliant. ICS2 requires customs data for goods entering the EU prior ...
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A survey of over 350 supply chain professionals by FourKites found that 73% of respondents said they had invested in supply chain visibility, with 46% planning to invest more in 2023.
However, The Great Reset: Ocean Shipping in a Post-Pandemic World also found that 50% said they had zero visibility into ...
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may be close to finalising a new trade deal with the EU but there are many details concerning VAT divergence between GB and NI that need to be resolved, says Alison Horner, indirect tax partner at accountancy group MHA.
She says: “Since 1 January 2021 UK businesses ...
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Logistics UK's head of trade and devolved policy, Nichola Mallon, joined other Northern Ireland business leaders on 22 February to meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak MP, to discuss the NI Protocol and how it can work better for logistics businesses.
Speaking after the meeting, she commented: "While no details of the ...
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SEKO Logistics has appointed Alfred Hofmann as senior vice president, global ocean freight. Hofmann joins SEKO after a 36-year-long tenure at Kuehne+Nagel, a global freight and logistics company based in Switzerland. He is based in SEKO’s APAC regional headquarters in Hong Kong.
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