July 2024
Australian-headquartered forwarding and logistics company Navia is using Raft’s AI-automated logistics finance capability to process large numbers of invoices. Raft’s AI now processes the bulk of the thousands of invoices, including document processing, data extraction and validation against existing data.
Navia, whose head office is in Melbourne is a vertically integrated supply chain partner that provides solutions in purchase order and vendor management, freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and third-party logistics for ...
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Air China has extended its longstanding UK and French cargo handling contracts with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) by three years.
At Heathrow, Air China operates 24 passenger flights per week to and from Beijing, Chengdu, and Shanghai and 14 flights between Gatwick, Beijing and Shanghai.
WFS is also providing countrywide road transport ...
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Air Partner's Cargo Division, flew more aid cargo operation to Gaza in early June. The 49 ton consignment moved on a single A330-200F charter flight from Dubai to Al Arish, Egypt and delivered overland due to the ongoing conflict.
As with previous flights, operating from international airports allowed for any permit ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Laura Wood as new head of commercial for the Humber. She was previously business development manager across ABP’s portfolio for energy transition and fuels and products of the future. Prior to working for ABP she worked for Peel Ports Liverpool as part of the ...
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Logistics UK has called on the new Labour government to partner with the freight sector to develop its promised industrial strategy. Logistics can boost productivity for all areas of the economy, says the industry business group.
The logistics sector is key to driving economic growth and, as one of the UK’s ...
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Air cargo is heading for a hot fourth quarter of rate increases after a sixth straight month of double-digit growth in June, says analyst Xeneta in its latest report. It warns that shippers and forwarders ill-prepared for this year’s peak season may find themselves “at the mercy of the market”.
Demand ...
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Texas-based start-up company Aerolane is claiming that its system of gliders towed behind a powered aircraft could reduce airfreight costs by 65%. The company, founded in 2021, is currently testing a system of automated tow gliders, dubbed Aerocarts, towed behind powered turboprop light aircraft that, it says, mimics the formations ...
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International Cargo Logistics (ICL) has nearly doubled the size of its cold storage facility at Heathrow Airport, from 153 to 300 sq m.
ICL Site Unit 13 now consists of five chambers with varying temperature regimes, as well as X-ray and external temporary storage facilities (ESTF), and temperature-controlled vehicles.
It also offers ...
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German logistics company Duvenbeck has acquired the operations of Bavarian freight forwarding company, Erich Haslbeck.
Family firm Haslbeck, headquartered in Niederviehbach near Dingolfing, about 60km north-east of Munich specialises in factory traffic for the Bavarian automobile industry as well as freight forwarding and logistics services for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and ...
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With Eurotunnel celebrating its 30th anniversary, one of its largest commercial users, Europa Road says it is now making more than 30,000 trips a year between England and France.
Europa was one of the first users of the Le Shuttle freight service, in 1994.
Eurotunnel, which runs 50km between Cheriton near Folkestone ...
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