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Freight insurer TT Club has produced a toolkit to help transport companies develop a Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) policies. It provides signposts to strategies and solutions to challenges such as emissions calculation, reduction and reporting. The toolkit will develop over time to build a resource base of success stories of effective ESG strategies from across the cargo handling and supply chain sectors. TT Club says that support and guidance to ...
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UPS reorted first-quarter 2024 consolidated revenues of $21.7 billion on 22 April, a 5.3% decrease from the first quarter of 2023. Consolidated operating profit was $1.6 billion, down 36.5% compared to the first quarter of 2023, and down 31.5% on an adjusted basis.
Chief executive Carol ...
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Descartes has acquired Ireland-based Aerospace Software Developments (ASD) for $61 million. ASD offers customs filing solutions under its Thyme-IT brand and Irish customs domain expertise to Descartes' Global Logistics Network and solutions and will help logistics companies comply with Irish regulatory requirements says Descartes. ASD's ...
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The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has issued a statement denying press reports that checks on imports from the EU were to be delayed and would start as planned from 30 April.
It said the UK government has full confidence that the facilities, ...
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CMA CGM has initiated the sale of Bolloré Logistics' activities in Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Martin, French Guiana, and Polynesia, In line with the commitments made to the European Commission and the Polynesian Competition Authority for its takeover of the French-owned forwarding company. CMA CGM Group has ...
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Logistics UK warned that the UK’s international trade connections have fallen behind its competitors in recent years, in its response to the ‘Build It In Britain’” pledge by the Labour Party on 17 April
Deputy policy director Michelle Gardner said it was vital that there is ...
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Logistics UK has been confirmed as a founder member of the UK government’s new Critical Imports Council, which held its first meeting at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London on 17 April.
The Council was announced by the Department for Business and Trade as ...
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New data from -commerce and fintech platform Tradeshift's Q1 Index of Global Trade Health paints an encouraging picture for global trade, with robust growth observed in China and the US, alongside indications of a rebound in global demand for manufactured goods.
Total transaction volumes across the ...
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A new report on workplace satisfaction among UK workers in 2024 shows that transport and logistics professionals are the least happy sector.
The Career Happiness Index, collated by careers transformation specialist The Futures Group, also said that accounting and finance and healthcare appear to be the ...
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Cross-border ecommerce shipments to the US face being rejected under changes introduced to Entry Type 86 in April, warnings tech firm Hurricane Commerce.
Entry Type 86 is a customs clearance procedure for low value shipments imported by one person on one day with a value not ...
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