May 2024
XPO has shipped a Rude Boy party bus to the Caribbean. It advertises the Rude Boy drink which, since its launch in 2017 has since become the fastest growing ready-to-drink product in the Caribbean, selling over 50 million bottles in 2023. (‘Rude Boy’ in this context refers to a culture strongly associated with ska and other Jamaican music genres and not ill-mannered youth.)
Rude Boy established a UK company in 2020 ...
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Grimaldi-owned ro ro carrier Atlantic Container line AB (ACL) has teamed up with short-sea operator BG Freight Line (BGFL) and Peel Ports in Liverpool and Dublin to improve transit times and reliability between Ireland and North America.
This new service will be one to two weeks faster than other transatlantic services ...
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The DHL Group said it got off to a solid start in 2024, with revenue in the first quarter almost stable at €20.3 billion compared with €20.9bn for Q1 2023. Operating profit (EBIT) of €1.3 billion was, as expected below previous year’s level (Q1 2023: €1.6 billion), but above pre-pandemic ...
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Time critical specialist Priority Freight has won a King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in recognition of its good business practices and sustained growth in overseas sales.
The company, founded in 1996, now employs nearly 300 people, operating from nine offices in the UK and Europe. Priority Freight won a ...
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CMA CGM’s LNG-powered Greenland will take part in the grand nautical parade to mark the arrival of the Olympic Flame in Marseille on 8 May.
Entering service in September 2022 under the French flag, and homeported in Marseille-Fos, she is one of five 15,000teu deployed between Asia and the Mediterranean.
As the ...
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American Airlines is to suspend or reduce several of its long-haul routes during the winter, blaming delayed deliveries of Boeing 787 aircraft. A number of summer seasonal flights will end early, on September 3 including those between New York and Athens, between Chicao and Athens and from New York to ...
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DP World Southampton handled two of the world's largest container vessels simultaneously for the first time on 30 April. Associated British Ports (ABP) has invested in widening the channel within the Western Docks, which has enabled ABP Marine Pilots to manoeuvre ultra-large vessels to other berths in DP World's container ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Sean Kelly as group IT director. He has extensive experience leading IT teams in different businesses including Microsoft, BT, EY, RBS and was most recently the chief information officer of Business Platforms at marketing and advertising agency network, Dentsu.
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AAL Shipping’s (christened its new vessel the AAL Limassol at the CSSC Huangpu Wenchong yard in Quanzhou, China on 26 April.
The ship is set to carry a full weather deck of project heavy lift cargo, including two 135-metre-long barges, weighing 1,650 tonnes and fifteen 80.5-metre-long wind blades.
She is one of ...
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DP World is using a previously neglected rail route from China to Türkiye to keep vital raw materials flowing into the country in the wake of the Red Sea attacks on shipping. Turkish manufacturing relies heavily on raw materials from China but with shipping diverting route around South Africa, transit ...
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