April 2019
North East-based PD Ports has celebrated the success of its second daily rail freight connection to Scotland, with an official locomotive naming ceremony at Teesport.
Five years after the opening of its intermodal rail terminal, Teesport now offering more daily connections to Scotland than any other port in the North, following the addition of a second Scottish service.
The Teesport Express’ naming ceremony was attended by senior representatives from the service’s key ...
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Ocean Network Express (ONE) chief executive Jeremy Nixon will make the keynote speech at a panel session on the first day of the Multimodal 2019 show on 18 June, sharing his outlook for the liner shipping industry.
Nixon oversaw the merger of three Japanese shipping firms to become ONE, now ...
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Celestino Silva is to take over as managing director of Dachser’s European Logistics (EL) Iberia business unit. He succeeds Juan Quintana, who is leaving the company to pursue new professional opportunities. A native of Portugal, Silva began his career at Azkar, a company later acquired by Dachser and in 2014 ...
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Fears that the UK will leave the EU without a deal have caused an explosion in the number of goods ordered for delivery to the country reports IT specialist Timocom in its latest report. Truck transport from all parts of Europe towards the UK rose 112% compared to the previous ...
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Karen George, wife of Red Funnel chairman, Kevin George, christened the Isle of Wight ferry operator's new freighter, the Red Kestrel in Southampton on 25 April, breaking the traditional bottle of champagne across the stern.
She was accompanied by the Employment minister Alok Sharma who paid tribute to Red Funnel’s support ...
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The UK has taken part in an electronic consignment note (e-CMR) pilot, along with France, the Netherlands and operators Brian Yeardley Continental, Transports FIOLET in France and Netherlands-based International Road Ferry. The project is under the supervision of the UK Department for Transport, Freight Transport Association and other equivalent bodies.
It ...
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The Cool Chain Association (CCA) will host its Fifth Global Perishables Event at Venlo, the Netherlands, on 14-15 May, with a focus on how the airfreight supply chain can help reduce food loss.
CCA recently launched a pilot data sharing initiative to monitor shipments of commodities such as avocados and berries ...
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Imperial Logistics has made a number of appointments to its China management team in Shanghai, and has moved to larger offices. Joshua Mclarin (pictured) has been named as the company’s new managing director for China. He is joined by Owen Li as head of commercial, Blair Hu has been appointed ...
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The UPS Foundation is partnering with vaccine alliance Gavi and others to develop a drone delivery service for up to 2,000 health facilities in Ghana. California-based automated logistics company Zipline will use drones to make emergency deliveries of high priority products including emergency and routine vaccines, blood products and life-saving ...
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ABP has appointed Julian Walker as chief commercial officer, from 2 September. He joins from Cory Riverside Energy and has previously held senior roles with P&O Ports (now DP World), Euroports and, most recently Impala Terminals (part of the Trafigura Group.
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