July 2023
Climate software company Pledge is offering freight forwarders a simple solution that allows them to invite their customers to purchase carbon credits to offset their unavoidable emissions. Impact Links is a white-label solution, enabling forwarders to add their own branding and can be embedded on a website, emailed directly to customers or shared via a QR code. Carbon credits purchased through Impact Links are selected from one of Pledge’s offsetting ...
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Dachser is to expand its emission-free delivery service for non-chilled groupage shipments to 12 more European city centres the end of 2025. It will offer the service in London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Cologne, Malaga, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Toulouse, Warsaw, and Vienna. It will also expand its existing zero-emission delivery area ...
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Europa Road has created eight new sales roles and made two internal promotions at its Belgian site. Europa Road Belgium (previously known as Continental Cargo Carriers) now has a team of 47 team in Oostende and the UK, offering for part-load, full-load and groupage. The sales team in Belgium is ...
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Maersk has opened its first multi-customer warehouse Croatia. Located less than 20 kilometers from the port of Rijeka the 12,000sq m facility’s first customer will be Marks & Spencer.
The new warehouse is a Class A type, with high security standards and is designed to minimise greenhouse gas emissions thanks to ...
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Austrian-owned forwarder Gebrüder Weiss has acquired logistics company Wedlich based in Bayreuth. The family-owned company specialises in land transport, logistics and relocation services, and employs around 100 people and is a further step in Gebrüder Weiss expansion into southern Germany.
Wedlich operates a 15,000sq m logistics facility in Bayreuth as well ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and forwarding partner Kuehne+Nagel are piloting totally paperless shipments for general cargo between Germany and Hong Kong, with not only electronic air waybills but all other accompanying documents and paperwork.
Further trade lanes will be targeted in the next phase of the scheme, the partners add, and the plan ...
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Freight forwarder Davies Turner welcomed the news on 18 July that the UK and Türkiye (Turkey) have committed to negotiate an updated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and deepen the relationship between the two countries.
Tariff-free arrangements like the one signed in 2020, which was rolled over from when the UK left ...
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Hamburg terminal operator Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has started testing a digital truck access system for the port’s container terminals. The Passify app will replace the current card-based process and was developed by HHLA Next, HHLA’s innovation unit.
In future, the 6,000 truck drivers who transport containers to and ...
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DFDS has acquired 100% of the share capital of Rotterdam-based road operator Estron Group. The company transports dry goods in full- and part-load trailers mainly between the UK and Germany, Benelux, and Poland using a leased fleet of 300 trailers and subcontracted haulage. Warehousing, cross-docking, and logistics services are provided ...
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The Freightos WebCargo airfreight platform has developed a system that it says can book cargo onto two or more connecting carriers in seconds – a process that until now often takes 24-48 hours to complete using manual processes.
The first booking was a test shipment by Qatar Airways Cargo on an ...
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