November 2015
Peel Ports said on 19 November that 50 shippers had signed up to its Cargo200 initiative to cut surface freight by 200 million miles over the next five years. Diageo, JCB, B&M, Jaguar Land Rover, Matalan and Typhoo are among the first 50 customers to respond to the initiative.
As well as cutting carbon, Peepl Ports estimates that the move could save shippers up to £400 per container in transportation costs.
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With the last 'ship-by' date for Christmas shipments by sea now passed, IAG Cargo has released a calendar of key dates to ensure its customers can airfreight their goods in time for the Holiday Season. Customers will be relying upon air freight more than ever to ensure the shelves are ...
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DHL Global Forwarding is offering a new sea-road service between Europe and Asia, Northern Africa and the Middle East via a new transit hub in Piraeus, Greece.
It says it can offer shorter transit times, day-definite full-truckload and daily less-than-truckload departures, and distribution from Piraeus within two to five days to ...
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The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT) has named GAC Sri Lanka MD, Mahesh Kurukulasuriya as its Young Manager of the Year. He was presented with the award by the institute’s patron, Princess Anne at a ceremony in London. The judges said he had demonstrated consistent success in decision ...
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BIFA (the British International Freight Association) has running further one-day conferences on important impending changes to freight legislation. They are at Middlesbrough on 8 December, Leeds on 9 December and Chelmsford on 28 January.
BIFA director general Robert Keen said that November's event had sold out.
The seminars will cover introduction ...
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A new deepwater berth at its terminal in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk will allow Russia regular year-round ice-free calls for vessels up to 10,000teu for the first time, says NUTEP.
The company, a subsidiary of DeloPorts and sister company to multimodal transport specialist Ruscon, is already the largest container ...
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Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) chief Chris Welsh has called for a debate on whether mega shipping alliances such as 2M, G6, CKYHE and O3 deliver real competition or if shippers and the container ship industry as a whole would be better served by fewer lines competing head-on.”
Speaking at the Asian ...
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It was more-or-less business as usual for the freight industry in the wake of the Friday 13th attacks on Paris. While some forwarders, including Toll Group, warned that “minor delays may be expected for cargo shipments due to stringent checks during customs clearance,” in practice most borders into France were ...
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Logistics company Quality Freight and Peel Ports have launched a new weekly container service between Liverpool and Ellesmere Port operated by Peel's shipping arm, BG Freight.
The new service, which departs Liverpool's Seaforth terminal on Fridays, is in addition to the port's existing service up the Manchester Ship Canal service which ...
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Short-sea operator Containerships has started services between London Thamesport, Germany, Finland, Russia and the Baltic states. Transit times range from three days to Lubeck in Germany and seven days to St Petersburg, Russia.
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