April 2025
Brittany Ferries has completed its largest-ever fleet renewal programme - five ships in five years – with the arrival of its second hybrid ship.
Guillaume de Normandie is due to make her first commercial voyage on 18 April 2025 and will serve the company’s busiest Portsmouth to Caen (Ouistreham) route, which carries more than half of all freight traffic as well as around a million passengers a year.
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DP World’s Unifeeder arm has launched a weekly service connecting the hub ports of Colon in Panama and Caucedo in the Dominican Republic with Rio Haina (Dominican Republic) and San Juan ( Puerto Rico). It can accept dry, reefer, specialized and out of gauge units.
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APM Terminals has acquired the Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC) from Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited and the Lanco Group/Mi‑Jack. PCRC operates a 76-km (47-mile) single-line railway adjacent to the Panama Canal mainly used to move cargo between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In 2024, the it generated revenue of ...
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Denholm Good Logistics and Denholm UK Logistics have come together under a single trading brand - Denholm Good Logistics. The companies say that uniting under a single banner reflects a commitment to providing a fully integrated supply chain solution, including global freight forwarding, customs clearance, haulage, warehousing and distribution. The ...
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Freight forwarding group Davies Turner has appointed Emma Turner to its board of directors at its Davies Turner Logistics subsidiary. Joining Davies Turner in 2011 as a contracts coordinator in Coleshill and becoming head of logistics Midlands in 2023, she has played an integral role in developing its logistics operations, ...
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DP World has shipped over 10 million vinyl records from its Bicester facility, the UK’s largest distribution warehouse for music and video products, since opening in August 2023.
Powered by semi-autonomous ‘picking’ robots, the warehouse has become the epicentre of physical music distribution, playing a key role in the ongoing ‘vinyl ...
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UK forwarder Kingscote Rojay (KRL) has acquired Solihull-based Republic Cargo Systems UK. RCS UK, previously part of the US-based RCS Group, offers air and ocean freight and complements KRL’s existing operations in the region.
KRL director, Peter Phythian, said: “RCS UK has built a strong reputation in air and ocean freight, ...
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Some 59% of air cargo workers have considered leaving the industry due to struggles with outdated technology, increased job stress and an unpredictable work environment, according to research commission by IBS Software.
The research conducted by Edge Insight said that industry employees complained of an unpredictable working environment heightened by outdated ...
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MSC has launched a service between Gothenburg, the north-west Continent and ports in China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. It operates weekly with 15,000teu vessels. , MSC also offers two transhipment services via Bremerhaven or Antwerp to North and South America, the Mediterranean, and Africa, as well as other ports ...
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DHL Group is to invest €2 billion (US$2.2bn) over the next five years in the life sciences and healthcare sector as part of its Strategy 2030.
Some 50% of the investment allocated to the Americas, 25% to Asia Pacific, and 25% to the EMEA region and will deliver faster, more reliable ...
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