September 2023
Icelandair Cargo has joined the Airforwarders Association (AfA) in the US. The carrier is adding dedicated freighters from Liege, in Belgium to multiple cities in North America as from September, via its base in Keflavik. AfA is extending its membership to include Europe-based companies with a US office.
AfA executive director, Brandon Fried, said: “With its strategic position midway between North America and Europe, the addition of Icelandair Cargo to the ...
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Ceva Logistics has launched new international road transport routes on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan and China-Pakistan corridors.
The forwarder held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in early September as a convoy of six trucks departed from western China’s inland city of Kashgar, crossing into Kyrgyzstan. Loaded with industrial components, auto parts and consumer goods, they ...
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Dublin Port said that a decline in volumes for first half of 2023 was due to reduced domestic and international demand on the back of strong growth in the same period of 2022.
Volumes declined by 3.6% to the end of June as the war in Ukraine, global inflation and a ...
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Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of a second multipurpose G5 ro-ro vessel for its Northern Europe /West Africa service. The Great Lagos is named after Nigeria’s largest city and port and where Grimaldi coperates there the largest ro-ro multipurpose terminal in West Africa.
The G5 class ships can carry 4,700 linear ...
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AP Moller - Maersk has signed an agreement with online retailer Amazon to transport 20,000 containers using green biofuel through Maersk’s ECO Delivery ocean service in 2023-24. The line estimates that will contribute to a reduction in 44,600 tonnes of CO2e versus standard bunker fuel. It is the fourth consecutive ...
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Musical instrument maker Yamaha has signed up to Project44’s Ocean Visibility and Port Intel solutions. It is using it to improve visibility of its global shipments, enhance its supply chain resilience and optimise its supply chain for its 15,000 containers worldwide.
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Maritime insurers, the UK P&I Club and TT Club have signed up for Safetytech Accelerator‘s Cargo Fire & Loss Innovation Initiative (CFLII).
The Initiative, launched in February 2023, is a multi-year collaborative technology acceleration programme focused on reducing cargo fires and loss in maritime and its impact. It is already supported ...
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Curzon De Vere ‘s Port One Logistics Park in Great Blakenham, Ipswich has almost completed four pre-let warehousing units, following a £20m commercial property development loan with Secure Trust Bank (STB) Real Estate Finance. STB has funded seven units at the e-commerce park, 20 miles away from Felixstowe.
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Supply chain visibility provider FourKites has launched My Workspace, a customisable dashboard that displays connected insights from across its product suite in a single, unified view. It allows users to access critical supply chain insights faster and gives an instant snapshot of specific supply chain data. Users can configure My ...
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Geodis has appointed Xavier Avrard as chief strategy officer and member of the group’s management board.Avrard joined Geodis in 2014 and in January 2023 took over the strategic development of the Europe region, particularly the integration of recently acquired Trans-o-flex. As the head of the new group strategy department, he ...
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