June 2020
European forwarder’s group CLECAT has signed an agreement to raise awareness of freight and shipping analyst Drewry’s Forwarder Benchmarking Club amongst its membership. Launched in 2019, Drewry Forwarder Benchmarking Club follows a similar model to Drewry’s other freight cost benchmarking services, providing a confidential, closed user group through which members can compare their ocean carrier buy rates against their peers. Information is available for over 4,000 worldwide port pairs. Membership ...
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DHL Express Germany and Munich Airport have signed a contract to build a new freight building. The site will compromise a gross floor area of over 8,000sq m on land leased from the airport and will include direct airside access and two ‘fingers’ for pick-up and delivery where up to ...
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ABP’s Port of Cardiff has commenced a new contract with fuels and petrochemical product refiner Valero.
The new long-term agreement includes occupation of a 12-acre storage and distribution terminal adjacent to ABP’s Roath Dock which will be fed by coastal tankers. Valero uses a coastal shipping service linking its West Wales ...
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World trade fell sharply in the first half of the year, as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the global economy, according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) but rapid government responses helped temper the contraction. WTO economists now believe that while trade volumes will register a steep decline in 2020, they ...
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Qatar Airways has increased its flights between its Doha hub and Dublin from five weekly to daily. It is part of a general increase in frequencies to other hubs, including Milan, Rome and Singapore. It has also reintroduced flights to Budapest, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Istanbul and New York.
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Turkish-owned Ekol Logistics in Poland has signed a new contract with UK-based outdoor clothing firm and Regatta. The two companies have been cooperating since January 2018 with Ekol operating a 10,000sq m, 10,000 pallet warehouse offering value-added services, returns and e-commerce shipments adds 23,000sq m, in Poznan. Cooperation has been extended ...
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Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss is opening its first national subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand with Air & Sea locations in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland. Regional manager for East Asia and Oceania Michael Zankel (pictured) said the new locations would focus primarily on import business from Asian, American, and European ...
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The UK Major Ports Group is launching an open data project to gather, organise and present data on the UK’s coastal communities. The goal is to provide a large-scale resource of data, interactive and open to all, to inform and improve policy making and revitalise the UK’s ‘Coastal Powerhouse’.
Working with ...
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Stevedoring company, Solent Stevedores, has started work on expanding its empty container handling facility at DP World London Gateway.
Solent Stevedores first opened its five-acre facility at London Gateway in 2016. The expansion will increase the site’s capacity by 82% to 4,300teu and will be fully operational by the end of ...
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US-headquartered global logistics and forwarding company CH Robinson is targeting the UK for growth in the wake of the coronavirus saying it has seen strong uptake in the last six months.
UK general manager Nick Ghia said that increasing UK market share was integral to its future growth strategy.
He added: “The ...
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