August 2020

New look for Maersk in the subcontinent

Maersk line has revised its service between Europe and the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent to enhance reliability. There will be more connections via the hub in Colombo (Sri Lanka), allowing cargo to be consolidated from different origins and offering better connections from both Asia and West Central Asia. The revamped network will offer new access for West India and Pakistan to Maersk’s cross-consolidation service in Colombo, a new direct connection between ... [+]

New online service for Ulster import declarations

The Government has unveiled a Trader Support Service for Northern Ireland to complete digital processes and handle safety and security declarations for imports into the province. The new service will be available to businesses bringing in goods from Great Britain or the rest of the world. A procurement exercise for the service ... [+]

Qatar restarts more Africa flights

Qatar Airways has resumed services to Nairobi, Kenya with 14 weekly flights and to Kigali Rwanda with three weekly flights. The airline now operates 33 weekly flights to eight destinations in Africa including Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and Tunis. [+]

You’ll find us in the Red Lion, says DB Schenker Singapore

DB Schenker has started operations at its new ‘Red Lion’ automated high-speed logistics hub in Singapore. At €101m, it is the single largest investment in any site globally in Schenker’s corporate history, located in the Airport Logistics Park at Changi Airport. The highly-mechanized air freight hub and contract logistics warehouse extends ... [+]

DHL extends online platform to Turkey

DHL’s Saloodo! Online freight platform has been extended to Turkey. The digital solution was first launched in Germany in 2017 and is already available in several other European countriesas well as the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Saloodo! combines online freight exchange and digital freight forwarding in a single platform ... [+]

Containerships adds Gijon call – updated

Containerships has added a weekly, Friday call in Gijon, northern Spain  to its service to Dublin and Liverpool. The service is supported by over 60 dedicated block trains per week serving the Spanish hinterland. Containerships has added a weekly, Friday call in Gijon, northern Spain  to its service to Dublin and ... [+]

Kuehne+Nagel expands East Midlands fleet

Kuehne+Nagel UK has upgraded its East Midlands Gateway-based fleet with 13 new rigid vehicles and 50 new double-deck box trailers, a year after opening its facility there for groupage, part load and full load services All of the new vehicles conform to the latest European emissions standards on emissions and will ... [+]

Now is the time prepare for Brexit, says Logistics UK

Logistics UK (formerly FTA) is urging organisations to start to prepare for the UK’s departure from the EU at the end of the year as the economy starts to recover after the Covid pandemic. Director of policy Elizabeth de Jong says that the 200,000 UK businesses that currently trade with Europe ... [+]

Drax wagons roll for five more years

GB Railfreight (GBRf) has extended its contract to move biomass from the ports of Tyne and Liverpool to Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire until 2025. The partnership dates back to 2010 when GBRf began moving biomass by rail from the Port of Tyne, initially using converted coal wagons. Drax ... [+]

Wilson James builds for the future in Tilbury

Construction logistics specialist Wilson James has expanded its warehousing and consolidation capacity at the port of Tilbury. The new facility augments the company’s existing London Construction Consolidation Centre and helps it to deliver material and equipment to sites in ever-shorter timeframes. Wilson James created the LCCC in East London in 2005, ... [+]

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