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Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss has signed a five-year partnership with Shanghai Maritime University, giving students opportunities to gain practical insights into the logistics industry and also helping them get their careers off the ground.
Students from the University’s College of Transport and Communications have the chance to gain first-hand experience in supply chain management through summer internships,
Two SMU students have already started their internship at the forwarder.
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The Port of Gothenburg says it is on course to achieve another all-time high year for container volumes in 2024, following its record year in 2023.
The first half of 2024 saw a 5% increase in container volumes, reaching 467,000 TEU, with the upward trend in ...
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Following the opening of its first e-fulfilment centre in the UK in Northampton, online distribution specialist Active Ants has signed a deal with Swedish brand Oriflame. Its robots will handle 85% of the picking and packing processes for the beauty brand saying that it can ...
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The Bloomberg news agency is reporting that Danish transport and logistics group DSV and a consortium led by CVC Capital Partners have separately put in binding bids for DB Schenker, the forwarding and logistics arm of Germany’s Deutsche Bahn rail group.
The bids value the company ...
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DHL Express has moved a partially disabled orphaned chimpanzee to a new home in Dorset.
Chocolat fell victim to the Congo’s illegal bushmeat poachers 20 years ago, ending orphaned and with shotgun injuries that paralyzed hand and foot. She spent two decades in Kenya but has ...
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The Port of Los Angeles has appointed Erica Calhoun as its deputy executive director overseeing the City of Los Angeles Harbor Department’s Administrative Bureau. In this new position, she will be responsible for the planning, direction and management of several key divisions at the gateway. ...
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Fluent Cargo, which styles itself as ‘Google Maps for freight’, has launched a multimodal tracking software as a service solution. It offers real-time updates and milestone tracking, estimated time of arrival predictions and flexible subscriptions. It uses a unified tracking platform that works across different ...
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Richard Litchfield, managing director of recruitment specialist Innovate Freight has become a non-executive director of software firm CocoonFMS. Staffordshire-based CocoonFMS provides Cloud-based transport management system in the UK. Richard Litchfield was formerly group IT director at Europa Worldwide Group and vice president and global head ...
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Forwarding and logistics company DSV has signed an agreement to buy 300 Volvo electric trucks, one of the largest such orders to date for the Swedish manufacturer. The agreement also includes 500 Volvo trucks with fuel-efficient diesel and gas drive lines.
All trucks are expected to ...
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Forth Ports is to name its new deep water riverside berth at the Port of Leith – designed to host the world’s largest offshore wind construction vessels – the Charles Hammond Berth, in honour of the company’s former chief executive who stepped down from the ...
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