August 2024
Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of its fifth G5 multipurpose ro-ro ship at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea. The Great Casablanca will be used on the service between Northern Europe and West Africa and will be one of an eventual six sister ships. With a deadweight of 45,684 tonnes, these ships are able to transport 4,700 linear metres of rolling freight, 2,500 CEU (Car Equivalent Units) and 2,000 ...
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Maersk has opened its logistics park at Jeddah Islamic Port in Saudi Arabia. It says the 225,000sq, US$25 million development is the largest single-site Logistics & Services facility in the Middle East. It offers warehousing for B2B and e-commerce requirements, temperature-controlled areas, a customs bonded area and has been designed ...
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Worldwide Flight Services Holland, a member of the SATS Group, is expanding its presence in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), with the proposed acquisition of Menzies World Cargo (Amsterdam) B.V., Menzies Aviation’s general cargo handling operations at the main international airport in the Netherlands.
It would increase warehouse capacity and cargo handling ...
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Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry and Cosco Shipping Container Lines have signed a contract in Shanghai for the construction of twelve 14,000 TEU container ships with dual-fuel methanol propulsion. The new vessels are equipped with the world’s most powerful permanent magnet shaft generator, a bow wind deflector, an air lubrication system ...
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The Port of Gothenburg has inaugurated a €60 million, 144,000sq m terminal. Arendal 2, which has been in planning for six years is part of the port's strategy to concentrate its terminal operations in the outer port area, further from the city centre, and to create direct road and rail ...
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Malcolm Group construction training and compliance manager, John Heirs has returned from his fourth secondment for international development organisation, Transaid. He spent two weeks training three new HGV driver trainers at the Industrial Training Centre in Lusaka, Zambia.
He has already completed three secondments took place at the National Institute of ...
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Inceptio Technology has completed delivery of 400 Inceptio-powered autonomous trucks to ZTO Express in China, the largest single delivery of intelligent heavy-duty vehicles in the world, it says.
The trucks, jointly developed with Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Coare pre-loaded with Inceptio’s Autonomous Driving System.
Inceptio operates line-haul logistics, express delivery, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation ...
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P&O Ferries and Irish Ferries have formally launched their ‘Turn-up and Go’ space charter agreement on the Dover-Calais route. P&O Ferries says the agreement will reduce freight wait times by 25 as all freight on the quayside is shipped on the next available sailing on either carrier.
Drivers will be offered ...
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Insurer TT Club is calling on all players in the global supply chain to recognise their responsibility for accurate and effective communication about dangerous goods, following the recent spate of container ship fires.
There have been four major incidents, two in port and another two at sea within the last four ...
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Swain Group has rebranded its Express Freight Services box haulage arm, acquired in 2018, as Swain Container Solutions. It is also opening a new depot in Southampton, adding to its existing locations at London Gateway, Felixstowe and Tilbury.
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