Freight News
Southampton-headquartered logistics company Peters & May has expanded its freight forwarding services to the US. Operating from its Fort Lauderdale office in Florida, the company aims to enhance its service offering for freight solutions in the US market and beyond.
Founded over 50 years ago, the company originally has its roots in forwarding but in more recent years specialised in yacht transport and in logistics solutions for boat manufacturers and marine ...
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Lufthansa Group’s high-speed logistics arm, Time:matters, has opened a branch near Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport. It will be led by regional director Western Europe Pieter-Jaap Zijlstra and staffed with a dedicated Country Manager France, as well as teams for sales, operations, customer service, and ...
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Bernardo Nunes has joined the board of air broker Chapman Freeborn, following his appointment as chief operating officer in November. He will continue to serve in his current role, leading global operations across the Chapman Freeborn group, including Magma Aviation, Intradco Global, On Board Courier ...
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Emirates Skycargo has launched an Emirates Courier Express end-to-end delivery service. It aims to break away from traditional hub-and-spoke models, with packages making multiple stops before arriving at destination and instead travelling from origin to destination directly, like passengers. The carrier says that this significantly ...
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Yesterday, we ran a story about parcel delivery firm Evri, the UK’s largest parcel delivery firm’s robot delivery dogs.
Now, we can reveal that, despite the 1 April dateline, it wasn’t an April Fool.
In a UK first, the robot version of man’s best friend will work ...
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Stena Line has developed a new concept vessel, the Futuro, which it says could reduce energy usage by 20% or more.
The 240-meter-long ro ro ship would carry semi-trailers and cars and would have an optimised hull and superstructure design to achieve the most efficient use ...
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Peel Ports has started a £10 million investment programme at its port of Heysham, chief operating officer, David Huck revealed in an interview with FBJ. The work will include reconfiguring the yard area to increase capacity by 20%, putting in new haulage gates and introducing ...
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Air Charter Service (ACS) arranged charters to Myanmar and Thailand over the weekend of 29/30 April following the earthquake that hit Myanmar on Friday 28 April. Several flights have already delivered aid to Yangon and Bangkok in Thailand.The epicentre of the earthquake, measuring 7.7 on ...
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Air Canada has resumed flights from Ottawa to London Heathrow with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Services will operate four times weekly with connections at Heathrow across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. The carrier will serve Heathrow from six Canadian cities, with up ...
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Peel Ports Liverpool handled 702,000 tonnes of steel from South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Turkey and Europe in 2024 and further investments should boost this figure to around 1m tonnes over the next 18 months.
While the UK steel industry does face challenges from US tariffs and ...
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