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Mammoet to supply cranes to Teesside’s Steel River Quay

Mammoet has been appointed as exclusive heavy-lift and heavy transport service supplier at Steel River Quay, part of the Teesworks industrial zone. Teesworks is a 2,600-acre site, located on the banks of the River Tees in the Northeast of England, and is central to the Teesside Freeport. The contract covers the supply of specialist field personnel, mobile cranes, crawler cranes and SPMT trailers for five years. Mammoet will also work closely with ... [+]

Brittany Ferries unveils 2025 plans

Brittany Ferries will operate up to 98 weekly cross-Channel sailings linking Portsmouth, Poole and Plymouth with St Malo, Roscoff Caen, Cherbourg and Le Havre in its 2025 timetable, published on 29 July. It will also offer up to 12 weekly overnight sailings between Portsmouth and Plymouth ... [+]

UPS to buy Mexico’s Estafeta

UPS has signed an agreement to acquire Mexican express delivery company Estafeta, following a commercial agreement between the two companies in 2020. Estafeta is a 45-year old privately owned provider of integrated logistics solutions with an extensive domestic network. The combined companies will offer small ... [+]

Plane number three for One Air

UK cargo airline One Air is due to take delivery of a third Boeing 747-400F by the end of August. One Air operated its inaugural flight in July 2023 and has since provided regular weekly full charter capacity between Asia and Europe as well as ad ... [+]

Transaid wins funding for Ghana training

International development organisation Transaid has secured funding from the Puma Energy Foundation for a new two and a half-year truck driver training project in Ghana. It supoport nationwide rollout of a new Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) driver training standard in the country. Transaid has more ... [+]

E-trucks get on the road in Slovenia

Austrian forwarder Cargo-partner has extended its European e-truck testing program to Slovenia, following successful pilots in Austria and Slovakia. Nippon Express-owned Cargo-partner launch its European electric truck testing program as part of its ROAD (Reducing Our Atmospheric Dependencies) initiative. In Slovenia it trialling the Scania ... [+]

Logisticians search for a carbon-free formula

Getting an electric race car to move at up to 200mph is the easy bit. What can be far tougher is squeezing the last grams of CO2 emissions out of the supply chain that brings the Formula E championship to 132 races, 33 cities and ... [+]

Dublin submits expansion plans

Dublin Port Company has submitted a planning application to An Bord Pleanála for a 15-year permission for its 3FM Project, the third and final part of its Masterplan 2040 scheme. The 3FM Project includes the construction of a new bridge across the River Liffey as part ... [+]

DP World and Evyap join forces to create Turkish mega-hub

DP World has united its Yarimca port with Evyap Group’s Evyapport to create a new international logistics hub on the Marmara Sea, about 80km east of Istanbul. DP World Evyap aims to meet increasing demand for logistics in the region and open up new sectors and ... [+]

Quick work keeps Chile plant working

Ukrainian-owned specialist carrier Antonov Airlines NEO Air Charter and Logwin have moved parts for a quicklime kiln from Italy and Brazil for a wood production plant in Chile. The parts, totalling about 80 tons,  needed to be changed during a plant shutdown in a strict timeframe. The ... [+]

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