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Geodis is to acquire 21.5 hectares of land at Trade Port Noord for a 130,000sq m sustainable contract logistics facility. It will serve customers in vertical sectors and accommodate the current growth in e-commerce.Venlo is one of Europe’s prime spots for logistics, located near the German border and close to the air and seaports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp.Chief executive Marie-Christine Lombard said: “Trade Port Noord has excellent connections to ...
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Freight forwarder Geodis is now offering its customers alternative fuels for air and seafreight, in addition to the road transport option it already offers. The fuels are produced using food and agricultural waste (mainly cooking oil) and their use allows for a massive reduction in CO2 emissions of at least ...
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Freight forwarder Geodis says it will expand its ad hoc chartering of vessels to move containers from the Far East to Europe into a semi-regular operation.
Senior vice president global ocean freight, Matthias Hansen, said that, with no sign that the market disruption that has plagued liner services throughout the year ...
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Geodis has upgraded its AirDirect services between Europe, the US and Asia with its own leased A330-300 full freighter aircraft in its own livery, becoming one of a very select number of forwarders to operate planes in their own colours. Operating regularly between Amsterdam, London Stansted and Chicago, the aircraft ...
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French-owned forwarder Geodis is moving to a new facility at Auckland Airport in October. The 5,700sq m facility includes temperature-controlled areas for pharmaceutical s at +15-25°C degrees and +4° C. The site also offers 5,000 pallet locations.
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Geodis has inaugurated a new warehouse at Mohammedia, north of Casablanca. Morocco. The 11,000sq m ultra-secure building will be dedicated to household appliances and high-tech products. It follows the opening of a site in the northern port city of Tangiers, bringing the forwarder’s total space in Morocco to nearly 50,000sq ...
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Geodis is launching a Manage! program to support its 8,000 employees around the world, strengthening their skills and leadership through a 14-week program. The forwarder says it will stimulate commitment and creativity in its teams and partners, to achieve the goals of its Ambition 2023" strategic plan. The Manage! program ...
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Antoine Pretin has joined Geodis as vice president engineering group. He will oversee automatisation of the forwarder’s service offerings to its customers.
He has since 2014 been head of the distribution business at a VINCI Group company specializing in automated intralogistics solutions.
He said: "The arrival of increasingly autonomous intelligent robots and ...
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Geodis has opened a multi-user facility in Icheon, South Korea in response to a surge in e-commerce channels demand. The new premises provide a variable ambient environment with temperatures ranging from 5°C to 34°C and maintain a maximum humidity of 87%. The location brings the forwarder’s footprint in South Korea ...
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The ultra-tight sea freight market from China to Europe prompted forwarder Geodis to go to extraordinary length of chartering its own vessels to move boxes from the Far East.
The first 1,000teu capacity vessel, operated exclusively by Geodis, is scheduled to arrive in Hamburg on 28 February, carrying 435 forty-foot containers ...
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