January 2025
With over a quarter of import shipments at Frankfurt Airport affected by the more stringent requirements of the EU NCTS5 rules, Allivate -a joint venture founded in 2024 by airport operator Fraport and software firm Dakosy - is offering an Easy Transit product to simplify the procedure. The module is available in the FAIR@Link Cargo Community System.
The most significant changes in the new NCTS5 version are the need for declarations ...
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Thanet District Council’s attempts to find a concessionaire to run its Port of Ramsgate have failed to bear fruit, according to Kent Online and other local media.
A tender stage launched last year has failed to produce a suitable operator to run the port’s general cargo and ro ro berths.
The council ...
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David Macken of Hawthorn Logistics has been selected as Irish International Freight Association’s (IIFA) Young Irish Freight Forwarder of the Year for 2025.
Gaia Manconi of Arcese Cosulich Ireland and Vikram Nair of Rhenus Air and Ocean were runners-up.
Participants submitted a video entry outlining their career to date in the first ...
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Bremen-based Specialist ro ro and breakbulk shipbroker and liner agent Transport Overseas Group (TO Group) has become commercial agent for London-based ro ro shipping company Polaris Autoliners. TO Group will expand its l network with additional trades between the Mediterranean region and Turkey, Europe and Oceania (Australia/New Zealand), as well ...
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East Midlands Airport owner and operator MAG (Manchester Airports Group) has appointed logistics property developer Prologis as its partner to take forward the development of a new industrial logistics and advanced manufacturing park.
The new area, to the south of the airport, is a designated East Midlands Freeport tax site and ...
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Europa Worldwide Group has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will work with the private sector to deliver funding for the Lower Thames Crossing, announced as part of Chancellor Rachel Reeve’s speech outlining plans to grow the British economy.
Europa recently joined a campaign to back the crossing, first proposed in ...
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Kale Logistics is to develop Africa’s first Airport cargo community system with Mozambique Airport Handling Service (MAHS). In the first phase, it will integrate finance and customs systems along with Kale’s airport cargo digital management system, Galaxy 3.0.
Initially, the services will be introduced at eight airports in which MAHS is ...
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Forth Ports Tilbury has taken delivery of a Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane. It will support operations including Aggregate Industries’ new cement grinding manufacturing facility and import terminal and, once operational in 2026, will handle granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS) a low carbon alternative to conventional cement.
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Stena Line had a record year for freight on its three Belfast services in 2024 with almost 600,000 units being shipped between Cairnryan, Liverpool (Birkenhead) and Heysham.
The ferry operator says that demand to and from Belfast has been increasing steadily in recent years with the Belfast-Liverpool (Birkenhead) route in particular ...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said on 29 January that the government would give full backing to a third runway at London Heathrow and was inviting proposals for the scheme to be brought forward by the summer.
In a widely-anticipated announcement, she criticised previous administrations for dragging their feet on ...
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