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Seafrigo has opened its fifth warehouse in Sweden, a 10,000sq m, 30,000-pallet facility in Katrineholm, southwest of Stockholm.
Seafrigo specializes in the storage and handling of foodstuffs across four temperature zones, ranging from frozen to controlled ambient. The company’s Nordic operations are headquartered in Helsingborg, which opened in 2018. Across the Nordics, Seafrigo handles 3,000 specialist pallets daily and conducts 600 tonnes of blast-freezing of meat per week.
The new Katrineholm site ...
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DHL Global Forwarding has transported the world’s first mobile heart clinic for children to Burundi. It will provide life-saving cardiovascular surgeries for children with congenital heart diseases in partnership with German NGO, Kinderherzen.
An estimated 90 percent of children in Africa with CHD lack access to ...
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XPO Logistics and Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions have partnered with North Yorkshire charity Chopsticks to provide timber off-cuts to its woodworking group.
Chopsticks support vulnerable adults in the community, providing them a safe working environment while teaching them new workshop skills. Working with otherwise scrap timber, the ...
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With the departure of the Brave Tern on 4 April, the Port of Dundee shipped the final offshore wind turbine blades for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, signalling the successful completion of the port’s role in the construction phase of the project.
The vessel ...
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DHL is usually associated with cutting-edge transportation such as planes, electric trucks or even drones. But local circumstances sometimes dictate a more creative approach, as the company reports in its latest survey.
For example, a truck or even a bicycle wouldn’t get you very far in ...
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International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)’s Basra Gateway Terminal has handled the largest ever container vessel to call at the Port of Umm Qasr in Iraq. The 16,000teu HMM Daon arrived on 19 March to be unloaded by the terminal’s three post-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes. Under Philippines-based ...
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Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) is to collaborate with telecommunications and technology company HKT to establish the territory’s first 5G private network-enabled terminal.
It says the high-speed 5G network will transform terminal efficiency and pave the way for the future adoption of advanced technologies.
The ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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