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January 2021

Stena Embla joins sister Edda on Belfast-Liverpool

Stena Embla, Stena Line’s newest ferry has now joined her sister E-Flexer ship Stena Edda on the Belfast to Liverpool route.  She was initially deployed for a short time on the Rosslare-Cherbourg due to brexit-related demand. A Stena Line spokesman said that it was likely that an E-Flexer vessel would however, be deployed to the Cherbourg route long term. Stena Embla has 3,100 freight lane meters capacity and provide 60% more cabins for ... [+]

Study could pave the way for 400mph fruit and veg

The Municipality of Rotterdam Port of Amsterdam, Air Cargo Netherlands and other trading and local government interests have signed a study covenant for a proposed hyperloop for the Rotterdam-Amsterdam freight corridor. Similar in concept to the schemes being promoted by DP World and others in the Gulf region, the public-private Hyperloop ... [+]

Paycargo appoints airfreight expert

Supply chain finance specialist PayCargo has appointed airfreight expert Michael White to its board. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the airfreight sector, most recently as founder and president of Trade Network Consultants. [+]

Business as usual for Dutch freight flights

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo says its flight programme will continue to operate as normal after agreeing Covid testing measures for its crews with the authorities in the Netherlands. It follows the government’s announcement last week of a number of new far-reaching measures, including additional travel restrictions and testing requirements ... [+]

Uniserve brings Felixstowe warehousing into the 21st Century

Uniserve is set to open a 750,000 sq ft ambient and freezer distribution centre less than a quarter of a mile from the Port of Felixstowe. Sitting on a 28-acre site along the A14, the £90 million centre is due to open in the second quarter of 2021 and will be ... [+]

New Amsterdam director for U-Freight

The U-Freight Group has promoted operations manager at its Amsterdam headquarters, Robert Rens (pictured) to operations director. He will take responsibility for work undertaken by current managing director in the Netherlands, Cas Scheij, who has reached official retirement age but will remain in post on a part-time basis. Rens has ... [+]

Davies Turner reveals a winning hand with new customs suites

Davies Turner has opened a new customs services floor at its regional freight hub at Dartford.This, together with similar, slightly smaller centres at some of its other UK freight hubs including Avonmouth and Manchester, houses one of the company’s newly created national customs processing teams set up in 2020 in ... [+]

No Brussels probe into shipping rates – for now

The European Shippers Council says that it has been told at a recent meeting by the European Commission Competition Directorate that it did not see the recent shipping price hikes as a justification to start an investigation as this would require either a formal review of the Consortia block exemption ... [+]

Enterprise Park joins Freeport-on-Thames bidders

The Thames Enterprise Park at Tilbury – a 669-acre former oil refinery development site shortly to become a manufacturing, logistics and clean energy hub – is joining the joint London Gateway, Port of Tilbury and Ford bid to set up a freeport to the east of London. Located directly next to ... [+]

DB Schenker launches three-continent freighters

DB Schenker has launched new own-controlled air freighter services connecting the US, Europe and Asia to cope with a lack of capacity on passenger flights. The first route, operated by National Airlines, is from Chicago via Munich to Tokyo and Seoul before flying back to Germany and from there again ... [+]

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