May 2023
Forth Ports has started building Scotland’s largest renewables hub at the Port of Leith with the start of work on the new riverside marine berth.
Forth Ports’ £50m project in Leith will create a site capable of accommodating the world’s largest offshore wind installation vessels and with a heavy lift capability of up to 100 tonnes per square metre (t/m2), backed up by 175 acres of adjacent land for logistics, marshalling ...
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Basra Gateway Terminal, International Container Terminal Services’ operation at Iraq's Port of Umm Qasr celebrated its four millionth TEU after nine years of operation at the country’s busiest port.
The record was achieved with the unloading operation of the Yang Ming vessel YM Mutuality.
ICTSI has invested more than USD300 million to modernize and ...
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Swissport has upgraded its cargo center at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) with a new 750sqm interconnected cold storeroom with direct access from the perishables hub to the airside. The new storeroom can hold up to 110 aircraft pallets, equivalent to just over three B747 freighter loadss. It is ...
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DP World has launched what it says is the first direct ro ro freight service between the UAE and Iraq for unaccompanied trailers. It operates under the name of P&O Maritime Transports, a DP World company.
The service takes 36 hours between Jebel Ali and Umm Qasr Port in southern Iraq ...
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The air cargo industry should expect a strong peak season in the fourth quarter despite lower Q1 volumes, said executive director of the US-based Airforwarders Association (AfA), Brandon Fried.
According to World ACD, global air cargo chargeable weight flown in Q1 2023 was down 11% compared with a year earlier, but ...
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Manchester forwarding and consolidation firm Cardinal Maritime says it will become the biggest employee-owned company in its sector in the world .
The company, which is based in Sharston, Wythenshawe in the south of the city says it is marking 25 years in business by transitioning to an employee-ownership model.
Since its ...
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Ukrainian carrier Antonov Airlines has delivered Intelsat commercial satellite to Cape Canaveral on one of its AN-124-100M aircraft. It flew the components from Moffet Federal Airfield in California, to NASA’s Shuttle Landing Facility in Titusville, Florida, USA, for a launch by the US aerospace company SpaceX.
The 55,000kg cargo consisted of ...
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IAG Cargo is offering more capacity between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean for the summer season, including the restart of services between Barcelona and Chile. The carrier’s network today includes 33 destinations and in Latin America and the Caribbean, up from 25 in 2019
Flights between Madrid and Bogota increase ...
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AGI Global Logistics has appointed two new directors at its Immingham office.
Karl Edwards (pictured, left) and Lloyd Dennis (right) have been promoted to support the continued growth of the business, bringing a wealth of experience in the logistics sector.
Karl Edwards will focus on operations while Lloyd Dennis oversees the commercial aspects. Jesse Ramirez, the original ...
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Air France KLM Martinair Cargo is operating two more flights under the second edition of its Sustainable Flight Challenge.
The first Sustainable Flight Challenge was organised in 2022 as an initiative of KLM, organised under the SkyTeam alliance umbrella with affiliated SkyTeam airlines and their partners joining forces to operate the ...
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