December 2017
APM Terminals is working with produce aggregation, packaging and retailing company Naija Pride and international development groups to provide modern cold chain transportation alternatives for farmers moving their goods from northern Nigeria to markets in Lagos.
It says that an estimated 15 million tonnes of Nigerian-grown perishable goods, including onions, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, okra, ginger and carrots, are lost annually due to poor logistics infrastructure and high transportation. Ongoing investments by ...
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Nottingham-based Baxter Freight has launched a recruitment drive for 14 new sales account managers.
The multi-modal logistics company, which currently employs almost 60 people, plans to increase its turnover from £13m to £18m in 2018.
Baxter Freight, based in Lenton, hopes to keep talent in the city by developing people and giving ...
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Edinburgh Airport-based Extrordinair has become the first freight forwarder in the UK to attain phase 2 Security Management Systems (SeMS ) accreditation from the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Sylvia Fleming, owner and founder of Extrodinair, which specialises in animal transportation and operates the only Border Inspection ...
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There will be no ‘hard border’ between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, nor will there be any border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, pledged Prime Minister Theresa May at the end of a negotiating session in Brussels.
The deal reached on the ...
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Honda of the UK Manufacturing has again singled out DP World Southampton (DPWS) for one a supplier award, the second time the Swindon-based company has honoured the South Coast terminal.
It previously won an award in 2014.
The award was presented at Honda’s annual Supplier Convention and recognises the exceptional contribution made ...
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Hong Kong-based Tigers Global Logistics leapt into action to transport 29 large bronze wildlife sculptures from Cape Town, South Africa to London for an exhibition by conservationist-turned-artist Bruce Little at the Mall Galleries.
The sculptures range from a 10cm mouse to a quarter-tonne, 450cm long Leopard.
The sculptures arrived in an ocean ...
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ABP says it could become one of the biggest corporate solar power producers in the UK after it announced plans to build a further 20MW of solar arrays.
Ultimately ABP’s 21 ports could house 100,000 solar panels generating up to 22.4m kWh of electricity each year – enough to boil more ...
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Labour peer Lord Campbell-Savours warned that the UK could face a shortage of customs officers after Brexit, quoting FBJ, in a Lords debate on the future of UK trade and customs policy on 5 December.
Describing Freight Business Journal as “an excellent publication if you want to keep abreast of Brexit ...
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The European Commission revealed new tools to make the EU's VAT system more fraud-proof and close loopholes on 30 November, including measures to prevent facilitation measures being exploited by criminals.
Currently, goods that arrive from outside the EU with a final destination of one member state can arrive into the EU ...
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The CCS-UK User Group – the non-profit body which manages, and commissions enhancements to, the CCS-UK freight community – is organising a series of road shows around the UK in early 2018 to highlight the issue of truck congestion at Heathrow and its own plans for an advanced information system ...
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