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International development organisation Transaid has secured funding from the Puma Energy Foundation for a new two and a half-year truck driver training project in Ghana. It supoport nationwide rollout of a new Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) driver training standard in the country. Transaid has more than three years' experience working in Ghana, where it developed the training standard and built driver training capacity at the institutional level.
The new project kicks ...
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DoKaSch Temperature Solutions has opened new stations for its Opticooler packing solutions in Dublin and Miami. The Dublin station will initially have capacity for 40 containers. Ireland is home to manufacturing facilities for the world's top ten pharmaceutical and biopharma companies and is the fifth-largest ...
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FedEx is launching a two week pilot of a Mercedes Benz eActros 300 electric tractor for domestic linehaul at its Parkhouse station in Stoke on Trent, paired with an existing FedEx-owned trailer. FedEx previously piloted the Mercedes-Benz Trucks eActros 300 as a rigid truck for ...
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Austrian forwarder Cargo-partner has extended its European e-truck testing program to Slovenia, following successful pilots in Austria and Slovakia. Nippon Express-owned Cargo-partner launch its European electric truck testing program as part of its ROAD (Reducing Our Atmospheric Dependencies) initiative. In Slovenia it trialling the Scania ...
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Europa Air & Sea’s Dubai office recently chartered an aircraft to transport exam papers from the UAE to Malawi.
The papers needed to be to the country’s National Examination Board, in time for July’s exams but the Abu Dhabi-based printer had experienced delays.
The forwarder also faced ...
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DHL Group has teamed up with green technology company Envision Group in a strategic partnership agreement to foster cooperation in logistics solutions and sustainability targets.
The partnership covers four main areas: logistics solutions, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), green energy and the joint development of a Net ...
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American Airlines Cargo moved record shipments on National Mango Day, July 22.
Originating in Pakistan, the mangoes travel on American’s interline partner to Houston George Bush where they are trucked to a treatment plant for washing and then on to New Orleans International. There, American uses ...
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Danish-based NTG Nordic Transport has signed an agreement to acquire a stake in Asia-based Freightzen Logistics. Founded in 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand, Freightzen employs 41 people and offers logistics solutions by air and ocean with offices in Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia and is currently NTG’s ...
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The CrowdStrike failure that led to global IT outages across the world on 19 July could have a longer-term impact on the logistics industry, says an airfreight rates expert.
While news channels reported on 22 July that many of the computers and other devices that had ...
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Getting an electric race car to move at up to 200mph is the easy bit. What can be far tougher is squeezing the last grams of CO2 emissions out of the supply chain that brings the Formula E championship to 132 races, 33 cities and ...
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