April 2024
IAG Cargo has invested €1.5 million in expanding its temperature-controlled perishables facility in Madrid, part of a €12 million investment in its Spanish hub over the last six years. It will increase capacity of the facility by 45%, offering the largest cooling chambers at the hub.
It will benefit customers importing fruit and vegetables, including asparagus from Peru and Los Angeles, papayas from Brazil, and mangos from Dominican Republic, as well ...
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Turkish sustainable building products firm Assan Panel will put its first UK manufacturing facility at Gateway 14, part of Freeport East. It will create around 100 jobs in Stowmarket and bring an investment of up to £45m. The new plant is scheduled to go into operation by Autumn 2025.
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DP World’s shortsea arm, Unifeeder Group has opened its first office in Latin America, in Panama City. The move is part of the operator’s plans to develop its operations in the region, following the introduction of a Hispaniola-Puerto Rico service in March 2023 and a Colombia-Panama service in February 2024.
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Stena Line has appointed Dennis Tetzlaff as chief operating officer fleet, succeeding Ian Hampton, who will remain with the company and concentrate on new business ventures. Dennis Tetzlaff was most recently vice president fleet operations and newbuild at TUI Cruises.
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The Princess Royal will be attending Multimodal 2024 on 13 June in her capacity as patron of international development charity Transaid.
Transaid and Multimodal have a deep and long-standing relationship forged over the last 15 years. Many of Multimodal’s clients are corporate sponsors of Transaid and the charity has been ...
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The Port of Gothenburg handled more containers in the first quarter of 2024 than ever before in a three month period. During the first quarter of this year, imports of containerised goods increased by 11% compared to the same period in 2023 while exported containers increased by 4%.
In 2023, high ...
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Swiss International Air Lines head of cargo, Lorenzo Stoll, is to leave the company after 11 years. He will be taking on a new professional challenge as the chief executive of a Swiss-based healthcare company.
Stoll has guided Swiss’ airfreight division through highly challenging times over the past three years – ...
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Qatar Airways has renewed its partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR for another two years, to 2025
Under the agreement, the carrier will support the shipment of relief items to vulnerable refugees and internally displaced people worldwide.
For the past two years, Qatar Airways Cargo has been working closely with UNHCR ...
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East Midlands Airport could create tens of thousands of new jobs and billions in economic value from growth in its cargo operation, according to a study by air travel consultants York Aviation -
The report said that EMA would be well placed to support increased demand for air freight in the ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has launched ‘Live Position’, its first dry container tracking tool. It follows the fitting of tracking devices to over two thirds of the fleet, with the remaining units expected to follow suit in summer. Users can search by container, booking number or in batches and the tool provides a ...
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