September 2024
Chief executive and chairman of the Rhenus Group, Tobias Bartz, joined a delegation to Central Asia led by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The forwarder signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in which Rhenus Group has a majority share - with the Uztemir’yolkonteyner arm of Uzbek Railways including plans for a logistics centre in Andijan. Bartz also signed a declaration of intent with Kazakhstan’s Aktau Sea Commercial Port for ...
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Kale Logistics Solutions has appointed Tribhuwan Negi as chief technology officer. He brings nearly 25 years of experience in building large-scale platforms and of global research and development. Tribhuwan’s appointment is part of a broader leadership expansion at Kale, with a new global chief financial officer, chief innovation officer, and ...
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UK cargo airline One Air has added a third Boeing 747 freighter to its fleet to meet to serve the Asia/Europe route.
The Boeing 747-400ERF joins One Air on a five-year lease from AeroTransCargo FZE and completed its first flight for the airline Hong Kong to East Midlands Airport on 16 ...
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Arca BioLogistics has joined forces with logistics software company Cen Global to offer offers an end-to-end specialist logistics service for research material and healthcare and pharmaceutical products. They have Arca developed a platform that gives real-time visibility into shipment location and temperature, as well as producing quotes in seconds and ...
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Belfast Harbour will welcome the first ever European Space Agency (ESA) Port Decarbonisation and Environmental Sustainability Workshop on 17 September.
At the one-day event, hosted jointly by the port, ESA’s Business Applications and Space Solutions (BASS) programme, Redshift Associates and the UK Space Agency, experts from the maritime and space sectors ...
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This year’s Scottish Transaid Dinner raised £100,681 for the transport and logistics-development agency. Hheld on 12 September at the Macdonald Inchyra Hotel near Grangemouth, it was attended by more than 300 executives and friends representing businesses across Scotland, led by Lynsey Craik from John Mitchell Haulage & Warehousing. She worked ...
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Europa Worldwide Group has set up an in-house Health & Safety team. It will take responsibility for training, reporting, auditing and overall health and safety awareness, working closely with on-site operational teams and taking on board feedback from team members.
The team will be based predominantly at the company’s operational sites ...
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CMA CGM has launched Startup Awards for new companies in maritime transport, logistics, and media, in collaboration with BFM Business and La Tribune.
Entrepreneurs worldwide in these three sectors are invited to apply via the website of ZEBOX, the international accelerator initiated by CMA CGM group chairman, Rodolphe Saadé. Winners will ...
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Trade solutions provider Community Network Services (CNS) and fellow DP World company SeaRates, developers of digital Freight Management services have launched CNS Enterprise, a Cloud-based suite of services to streamline workflows.
It aims to address the unique needs and challenges companies in the freight and logistics sector face in managing their ...
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The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Transport Canada implemented emergency measures, effective immediately, for air cargo originating from Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on 13 September. It followed reports of two packages containing incendiaries igniting on European parcel networks.
FIATA said that challenges in implementing the new ...
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