March 2024
CMA CGM has appointed Bolloré Logistics chief executive, Thierry Ehrenbogen as senior vice president, development and strategic account, effective from March 1st, 2024. He will be responsible for leading the key strategic accounts of the group, ensuring the development of commercial synergies between CMA CGM's shipping, logistics and air freight divisions.
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Uniserve’s pan-European arm Efret has launched a new driver-accompanied service between the UK and Morocco with scheduled departures every weekday. It operates from any UK collection point, except Northern Ireland, and delivers to all regions of Morocco including, Rabat, Tangier, Agadir, Fes, Marrakesh and Casablanca with transit times of 5-7 ...
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Kuehne+Nagel has signed and agreement to acquire pan-Asian operator City Zone Express from Chasen Holdings’. Headquartered in Malaysia and established in 2006, City Zone Express has over 500 employees and operates in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam Thailand, and China. with an owned fleet of 260 vehicles and 80,000sq m of warehousing ...
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Scan Global Logistics has opened its second office in Kenya, in Mombasa. It comes six months after forwarder successfully entered the Kenyan market in Nairobi in April 2023. Mombasa is the company’s 12th on the African continent. Kenya's logistics potential is growing due to improved infrastructure, including the new rail ...
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Wincanton Directors have recommended an offer to buy the company by GXO for about £762 million, or £6.05 per share, 26% higher than that made by CMA CGM subsidiary Ceva Logistics in February.
West Country-based Wincanton operates more than 170 sites across the country with a 20,300-strong team – including 5,000 ...
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NEO Air Charter and customer Blue Water Shipping pulled out all the stops to deliver urgent heat pipes needed to keep the heat on in Iceland.
Some 20,000 households on the Reykjanes Pensinsula endured -15 degree temperatures without heating, after earthquakes and volcano eruptions damaged underground heating pipes.
Blue Water Shipping of ...
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Secretary of State for Wales David Davies formally launched the two Welsh freeports at the Institute of Directors in London on 29 February, on the eve of St David’s Day.
The Anglesey (Ynys Mon) Freeport will cover the whole Isle of Anglesey, including Holyhead, the UK’s second busiest ro ro port ...
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Hong Kong handler HACTL has launched a Cool Chain Complex (CCC), the largest at the International Airport and the first to include a dedicated climate-controlled facility for storing dangerous substances.
CCC allows import shipments to be unloaded from aircraft, broken down, and either stored or handed to waiting customers entirely within ...
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Forth Ports outgoing chief executive Charles Hammond has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. Charles Hammond, who already has an OBE, steps down from the Scottish and English ports operator after 23 years later this year. He received the accolade at a ceremony in Edinburgh on ...
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UAE-owned handling company Dnata says it has integrated autonomous drones into its cargo warehouse operations in Dubai. Benefits include 20% reduction in processing times of rack inventories and over 99% accuracy in shipment tracking. On average, Dnata’s drones monitor some 1,800 shipments across 2,400 rack locations.
Software by Gather AI, enables ...
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