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WEC Lines has added a Hamburg call to its North-west Continent-Portugal service. It creates a fast weekly sailing route from the German port to Leixões and Setúbal, departing from Hamburg on Sundays and arriving in Leixões on Saturdays and Setúbal on Mondays and an alternative to truck transport.
Other calls include Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Leixões, Setúbal, and Montoir. The service will be performed by two dedicated 1,000TEU vessels in a 14-day ...
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Rhenus Group has been appointed Official Logistics Partner for the 29th UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. The forwarder will draw on its extensive experience in planning and executing complex logistics for large-scale events, while benefiting from the expertise of local partners and ...
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Freight forwarding and logistics company Woodland Group has launched a trial of HVO diesel fuel for its customer, aluminium packaging supplier Ball Corporation.
Over the past 10 weeks, the company has completed 1,100 trips on the company’s regular routes using the fuel, reducing emissions to just ...
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Nuneaton-based forwarder Independent Freight Solutions (IFS) has given a timely assist to a girls’ football team making the step up to 11-a-side matches. IFS is now the main shirt sponsor of Coventry United FC’s Under-13s for the 2024/25 season.
Clearly, the partnership is working as the ...
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Dachser UK is investing in an additional 112,000sq ft, 20,000 pallet capacity building at its Brackmills, Northampton base.
The new warehouse is next to the company's central domestic and international distribution hub, which operates to all UK and European destinations daily, giving UK customers integrated storage, ...
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Parcel delivery company DPD has partnered with Army Cycling to encourage more service people to get on their bikes – whether to get around the base or to enter elite competitions.
The Army Cycling Union (ACU) was created in 1950 to encourage and promote all branches ...
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The Cargo Integrity Group (CIG) is calling on more national administrations to report the findings of their container inspection programmes after an analysis found that less than 5% were regularly submitting results to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in publicly available form.
Under resolutions adopted more ...
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Federal Express is to move its line haul trucks at three UK sites to biofuels from September.
More than 170 trucks – all tractor-trailer combinations – will use hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) in Parkhouse (80 tractors), Marston Gate (54 tractors), and Atherstone (38 tractors). FedEx has ...
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DHL Express Portugal has opened a new facility at Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport in Porto, Portugal. The €25 million site strengthens its support for the growing export industry in the north and central regions of the country.A total footprint of over 18,000 square meters more ...
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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has launched a competitive procurement exercise for the next phase of the Trader Support Service (TSS) for businesses moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
It said the procurement exercise will begin by early 2025, to deliver ongoing support for ...
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