April 2023
Brittany Ferries has welcomed a proposed French law to block ferry companies from ports if they do not pay seafarers minimum wages. It received unanimous support in the Assemblée Nationale on 28 March and has now passed to the Senate in the next step in the legislative process.
The new law says that French ports will impose a ban on any operator that infringes the rules more than three times. A ...
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Port of Middlesbrough owner AV Dawson has set up a Leadership Academy to encourage the next generation of business management. It will, in time, be open to any colleague in the business that aspires to develop and will equip them with additional skills, while preparing them for future succession. Also ...
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it moved the most cargo in the US in February 2023 and year-to-date in 2023. It remained busy in February, traditionally the slowest time of the year for all US ports, moving 571,177TEU and exceeding the Port of Los Angeles ...
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Chapman Freeborn has appointed Scott Collier as president – ACMI leasing to lead its new global ACMI department. He brings almost three decades of industry experience to the broker, from airline operations, commercial sectors and tour operating, to running his own successful aircraft leasing company.
Chapman Freeborn has also appointed Claire ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is adding new freighter destinations to its short and medium-haul A321F freighter network from April. From 12 April there will be two weekly connections between Frankfurt and Larnaca, in a combined routing with Athens, and a weekly connection to Milan.
By late summer, Lufthansa’s A321F fleet will be expanded ...
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AIPUT fund (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has submitted a planning application at its London Heathrow Radius Park campus, the first major renovation project to be financed under a £350 million sustainability-linked credit facility with Wells Fargo Bank.
It says it signals a new chapter in the fund’s strategy to deliver ...
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The British International Freight Association’s (BIFA) Young Forwarder Network (YFN) has reached a century of events, four years after its inception, with a tour of the DP World Southampton container terminal.
Carl Hobbis, an executive director at BIFA, who has management responsibility for the trade association’s training and development services declared: ...
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Air France-KLM has signed the long-term strategic air cargo partnership with shipping and logistics operator CMA CGM Group announced in May 2022. With an initial duration of 10 years, the two companies will combine their cargo networks, full freighter capacity and dedicated services.
The agreement has received all regulatory approvals, but ...
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Singapore-based airline catering firm SATS has completed its acquisition of global air cargo logistics handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) for €1.3 billion (S$1.8bn), from Cerberus Capital Management.
WFS becomes a fully owned subsidiary of SATS and will remain headquartered in Paris and operate as Worldwide Flight Services. Chief executive Craig Smyth ...
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Europa Road has signed a partnership with Ulm -based Noerpel. It will allow the Dartford-based groupage operator to add a new daily round trip to the South of Germany.
Operations director, Dan Cook, said: “Noerpel is a well-established, independent forwarding company with several platforms in the South of Germany.”
He added that ...
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