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Lights, camera – U-Freight!

U-Freight Group has helped Airport Authority Hong Kong produce a video promoting the gateway as an e-commerce hub. ‘Hong Kong International Airport - The e-commerce fulfilment hub in Asia’ is part of a campaign to highlight its advantages as a global logistics centre. Parts of the video were filmed at U-Freight subsidiary e+Solutions’ eCommerce Logistics Centre at Chuen Kei Industrial Centre in Kwai Chung. Airport stakeholders shared insights into how Hong Kong’s ... [+]

Samphire Cargo buys ACT Forwarding

Samphire Cargo - a sister company of Birmingham-based Simpex Express – has acquired ACT Forwarding and Logistics. Founded in 1986 by managing director Tony Ball, Dover-based ACT employs nine staff, who will now join the Samphire team. The acquisition strengthens Samphire’s customs clearance capabilities. ACT enjoyed significant ... [+]

Röhlig adds to GDP network

Röhlig Logistics has added to its network of Good Distribution Practice (GDP)-certified sites, adding Milan, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The forwarder now operates 15 GDP-certified facilities across China, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the US and plans to certify over 20 additional ... [+]

DHL offers hassle-free returns and two-hour London deliveries

DHL Express has introduced a new ‘label-free’ service for package returns. It relieves online consumers  of the need to search for a printer to print the label, or to use pre-printed merchant provided labels and returns form from the original shipment. The new services uses ... [+]

Ceva signs Saudi joint venture

Ceva Logistics signed a final agreement with Almajdouie Logistics to create a joint venture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Global Logistics Forum in Riyadh. First announced in July 2024 and already approved by the Saudi authorities, CEVA Almajdouie Logisticwill meet the growing ... [+]

London Gateway expansion is on, after all

DP World has confirmed that it will build a fifth and sixth berth at London Gateway port as part of a £1bn expansion over the next five years. The investment will also include a second rail terminal. It follows a turbulent weekend, during which Dubai-owned DP ... [+]

BIFA: star of the small screen

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is taking a prominent role in a news-style programme, Transforming Logistics: Precision and Purpose, produced by ITN Business.The programme, hosted by presenter and broadcaster Louise Minchin from the ITN London Studio, features reports along with sponsored editorial profiles, spotlighting ... [+]

Insurers publish guide to flexitank success

The International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) has published a best practice guide for the safe use of flexible tanks with practical guidance to ensure cargoes arrive intact. Flexible tanks – or flexitanks – are polyfilm bladders filled with liquid cargo and then placed into ... [+]

Gebrüder Weiss expands again in Georgia

Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss has expanded its logistics centre in Tbilisi, Georgia, its third such scheme in ten years. The latest project adds 13,000sq m of space and comes in response to rising demand for transport and logistics services in the region, including neighbours Armenia ... [+]

DHL signs UK e-retail deal

DHL Supply Chain has signed a partnership with UK retailer, Manchester-based Online Home Shop. It will use DHL’s Fulfilment Network for small and medium sized e-commerce businesses, DHL Supply Chain will manage warehousing, inventory management, and order fulfilment across the UK. [+]

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