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The freight forwarding market is experiencing its fastest expansion in a decade, according to the latest issue of Ti's report published on 23 June.
Global Freight Forwarding 2022 says that in 2021 the global forwarding market rebounded and exceeded its pre-pandemic levels. However, limited capacity and record-high freight rates present a challenging market for shippers, but also an extraordinary ‘uplift’ in the profitability of freight forwarders.
The global freight forwarding market grew ...
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Fraport, the owner and operator of Frankfurt Airport, is building a new airfreight warehouse at CargoCity South (CCS). The new facility will be used by DHL Global Forwarding, the air and sea freight subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL Group, with construction due to start in mid-2023.
Once complete, the warehouse ...
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HMRC is writing to more than 220,000 businesses urging them to move to the new Customs Declaration Service, which is due to replace the Chief system for import declarations in September, and export declarations by 31 March 2023.
It says that CDS should now be used for making import declarations when moving ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is to open an offline cargo warehouse at Amsterdam Schiphol to add capacity ahead of the winter 2022 peak season.
The new 3,000sq m facility is the fourth WFS cargo terminal at Schiphol, taking the company’s overall footprint to 17,500sq m.
WFS currently provides cargo handling services at ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has once again supported Armed Forces Day in Cleethorpes, following two years of the pandemic when it had to be cancelled.
ABP’s associations with the event in the Lincolnshire town – which is close to ABP’s Grimsby and Immingham ports - started in 2016 when the area ...
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FedEx has signed an alliance and made a strategic investment in supply chain visibility company FourKites to give customers more robust real-time visibility. FourKites will use its machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities with data insights from the FedEx network – which reaches more than 220 countries and territories, and ...
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SEKO Logistics has appointed Steen Christensen to the new role of chief operating officer – international and Paul Good as managing director, Australia.
Texas-based Christensen has enjoyed a 30-year executive career in the freight and logistics sector through senior posts with Geodis and DHL and most recently spent four years as ...
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Europa Worldwide Group chief executive Andrew Baxter says his company's turnover has hit the £300m mark for the last 12 months
But he told a recent staff conference in London that he wanted to reach £400m by the end of 2023.
He said the board’s growth plan s include new global sites ...
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Dover-headquartered Priority Freight has relocated its German air freight hub to a new, larger facility in Frankfurt. It has taken a 325sq m office in Kelsterbach, close to the Cargo City North and is looking to recruit additional members of staff.
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All 27 participants in the first Women in Aviation and Logistics mentorship project have successfully completed the programme.
The inaugural four-month scheme brought together 54 industry professionals representing airlines, airports, freight forwarders, shippers, ground handlers, tech, drone companies, and industry associations.
The initiative ran between January and May and was designed to ...
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