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BG Freight Line is to introduce four new vessels on its Liverpool-Rotterdam route fitted with a scrubber to catch CO2 and sulphur particles, along with increased capacity for cargo giving a lower carbon footprint per container.
They are also equipped to handle biomethanol, allowing them to be powered by this sustainable fuel source as it becomes available in ports.
Named to reflect their striking colours, BG Green, BG Blue, BG Red, and ...
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Austrian based forwarder Cargo-partner – now part of Nippon Express Group - has expanded its air freight offering from key airports in Belgium and the Netherlands to worldwide destinations.
The Benelux air services are managed from Cargo-partner’s Amsterdam and Brussels branches by an in-house team of ...
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French President, Emmanuel Macron, and CMA CGM chairman and chief executive, Rodolphe Saadé officially opened Tangram, a global center dedicated to innovation and training for the logistics and shipping group's employees on 8 May.
Designed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, it will train over 3,000 people ...
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XPO has shipped a Rude Boy party bus to the Caribbean. It advertises the Rude Boy drink which, since its launch in 2017 has since become the fastest growing ready-to-drink product in the Caribbean, selling over 50 million bottles in 2023. (‘Rude Boy’ in this ...
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Grimaldi-owned ro ro carrier Atlantic Container line AB (ACL) has teamed up with short-sea operator BG Freight Line (BGFL) and Peel Ports in Liverpool and Dublin to improve transit times and reliability between Ireland and North America.
This new service will be one to two weeks ...
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Time critical specialist Priority Freight has won a King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in recognition of its good business practices and sustained growth in overseas sales.
The company, founded in 1996, now employs nearly 300 people, operating from nine offices in the UK and ...
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CMA CGM’s LNG-powered Greenland will take part in the grand nautical parade to mark the arrival of the Olympic Flame in Marseille on 8 May.
Entering service in September 2022 under the French flag, and homeported in Marseille-Fos, she is one of five 15,000teu deployed between ...
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AAL Shipping’s (christened its new vessel the AAL Limassol at the CSSC Huangpu Wenchong yard in Quanzhou, China on 26 April.
The ship is set to carry a full weather deck of project heavy lift cargo, including two 135-metre-long barges, weighing 1,650 tonnes and fifteen 80.5-metre-long ...
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AV Dawson, owner and operator of Port of Middlesbrough, has worked with a local college to create a 3D virtual reality version of the facility for prospective customers.
Students at The Northern School of Art worked in teams to design one of two locations at the ...
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German-owned logistics and e-commerce specialist Arvato has acquired the site of cosmetics company Avon in Corby and has taken over warehousing and transport management for its UK business.
Arvato already handles Avon's business in Italy. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsman, and specialises in ...
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