August 2023
Specialist logistics company Collett & Sons has opened a heavy lift warehouse at its Elland Depot Complex, close to junction 24 of the M62. In West Yorkshire.
It adds internal storage of 750sq m to the existing 3,800sq m internal area, a 25 tonne overhead gantry crane, 7m height under hook and drive-in roller shutter doors, each 5.5m wide and 6m high.
Multiple gantry cranes with capacities from 5 to 32t are ...
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Shippers will hold the upper hand in the winter round of airfreight rates negotiations, says analyst CLIVE Data Services.
Clive, part of Xeneta, said that after another month of falling demand in July saw volumes drop -2% month-over-month, and the general global air freight spot rate decline at a hastening pace ...
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Multimodal freight insurer TT Club appointed Josh Finch as logistics risk manager and Neil Dalus as EMEA risk assessment manager.
Josh Finch’s 15 years’ experience in the industry includes operations manager at Howard Tenens and at DHL Supply Chain, as both operations and transport manager.
Neil Dalus’ 20 years managing port and ...
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Advanced Supply Chain (ASC) is investing £60million in a new European operating facility in Nettetal, Germany, about 30km west of Duisberg on the Netherlands border.
Part of Reconomy which provides tech-enabled solutions for the circular economy, ASC delivers services to retailers and consumer brands including specialist software for pre-retail, returns processing, ...
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Austrian Gebrüder Weiss is using electric tricycles to deliver to the hitherto inaccessible corners of the Croatian islands
Providing delivery services to the island towns with their narrow streets has never been easy but Gebrüder Weiss has started to offer its customers the eco-friendly transport solution for deliveries to private homes ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has completed its 100% acquisition of Latin America-based SM SAAM’s terminal business and related logistics services, followingan agreement announced in October 2022. The transaction was approved unconditionally by the relevant antitrust authorities of all countries involved. It includes interests in terminals in Iquique, Antofagasta, San Antonio, San Vicente and ...
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Jens Drewes is to take over as chief executive of Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in August 2024, succeeding Reiner Heiken who will retire in 2024. Jens Drewes has worked for Kuehne + Nagel since the late 1990s where he was most recently responsible for the European business. Reiner Heiken has been ...
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Etihad Cargo says it has continued to surpass operational performance targets, achieving improvements across key performance measures in the first half of 2023.
It achieved 82.7% on-time performance for freighter departures and 82% OTP for freighter arrivals, above its 80% target. It also improved the carrier's delivered-as-promised (DAP) rate, achieving 90.6%, ...
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DP World has built a new slipway for the Southampton Sea Cadets as part of its community investment programme. The old slipway had deteriorated badly and was becoming hazardous the port operator and partners Earlcoate stepped in to save the boating season for the cadets’ kayakers, rowers and dinghy sailors.
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Austrian forwarder Cargo-partner is offering an air freight door-to-door consolidation service between key Western Europe airports, including the UK, Austria, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands, to over ten destinations in India, China, Singapore and Thailand. It says its approach offers shippers cost-effective solutions while benefiting from the speed of air ...
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