Feature
The Port of Greenock has gained a weekly container to Türkiye (Turkey) with the extension of Mediterranean Shipping Company’s existing UK West Coast service from Liverpool.
It follows Greenock owners Peel Ports £25m investment in two new ship-to-shore cranes, capable of servicing larger post-panamax container vessels.
The service rotation also includes Spain, Portugal and France, and will significantly enhance connections from Scotland to the Far East, India and Pakistan thanks to direct ...
[+]
Rhenus Warehousing Solutions officially opened its ‘Rhenus Campus’, development in Nuneaton on 18 April.
The development is certified BREEAM Outstanding for environmental protection, and consists of two warehouses, measuring a total of one million square feet - one of 210,000sq ft, and the second 771,000sq feet.
The ...
[+]
Europa’s Air & Sea forwarding arm chartered an Antonov 124 to move time-critical cargo from East Midlands Airport to the UAE following the rainstorms that shut down one of the Middle East’s busiest air cargo hubs in April. Europa managed the cargo from pick up ...
[+]
Peel Ports Group’s Queen Elizabeth II Dock at Eastham near Ellesmere is to use hydropower as part of its drive to become net-zero across its network and operations by 2040.
The port operator has partnered with Czech renewable energy specialist Hydropol to install a twin Archimedean ...
[+]
DP World has taken delivery of eight fully electric straddle carriers for its soon-to-be-opened £350m new fourth berth at London Gateway. Theyy will be part of the first all-electric fleet at any port in the world servicing the first ever all-electric berth.
The £12m Kalmar straddle ...
[+]
Maritime Transport has ordered 18 battery-electric, 42-tonne tractor units, the first of a consignment of 48 battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks that the intermodal operator plans to deploy across its network.
Maritime, which is a participant in the Zero Emission HGV and Infrastructure Demonstrator (ZEHID) ...
[+]
Three koala bears are settling into their new custom-built, dedicated ‘Koalia’ home in the Netherlands at Rhenen’s Ouwehands Zoo, thanks to Air France KLM Martinair Cargo.
A keeper from Ouwehands travelled to California’s San Diego Zoo to pick up the koalas, arriving back from Los Angeles ...
[+]
GB Railfreight (GBRf) has started an intermodal service between Southampton’s Solent Rail Terminal and Hams Hall Rail in the West Midlands, the rail operator’s first between the two locations.
It will operate five times a week with an option to connect Southampton with Mossend International Rail ...
[+]
Europa Worldwide Group says that 70 senior managers from its 18 UK sites have achieved the bespoke Europa Management Training certification and a new cohort of 60 is currently taking part in the 11-module programme. The programme, launched in 2023, introduces managers to new concepts ...
[+]
Vivid Goliath general manager Nick Thomas says that the toy and games supplier has had the smoothest peak season in recent memory, thanks to its collaboration with forwarding and logistics company Uniserve.Vivid Goliath faced the challenge of managing some 50,000 order lines annually across diverse ...
[+]
More »
