February 2022
German-based terminal operator Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) says its employees in its Odessa terminal in Ukraine could be badly affected by Russia’s invasion of their country.
HHLA has been operated a terminal there since 2001.
Chief executive Angela Titzrath said that the port of Odessa was closed on the morning of 24 February by the Ukrainian authorities and all 480 HHLA employees have left the terminal.
They had “reliably handled” two ...
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The port of Rotterdam says its throughput in 2021 matched the pre-pandemic level of 2019. Almost all goods types were up last year; one of the sharpest rises being in containers, which reached a record 15.3 million teu.
Total throughpuyt at the port, across all container and bulk segments was up ...
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Russia's apparent full scale invasion of Ukraine in the early hours of 24 February could lead to severe sanctions being imposed on the country, including the cutting of shipping and transport links. While freight transport has not been specifically mentioned in the list of possible measures, it seems unlikely that ...
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Rail firm DB Cargo and vehicle logistics specialist Groupe CAT have launched a new service to move finished cars between a £2.6 million automotive transfer facility at Toton in Nottinghamshire and Kolin in the Czech republic, via Valenciennes in northern France, through the Channel Tunnel.
Groupe CAT has invested £3 million ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to launch an A321-operated medium-haul freighter network from 15 March, including. The network will be centred on Frankfurt and will also cover Manchester, Dublin, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Malta and Tunis, with Cairo joining the network on 29 March.
The A321F will make its first commercial flight from Frankfurt ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to launch an A321-operated medium-haul freighter network from 15 March, including flights to Manchester and Dublin. The network will be centred on Frankfurt and will also cover Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Malta and Tunis, with Cairo joining the network on 29 March.
The A321F will make its first commercial ...
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Pall-Ex Poland has opened a new hub in Łódź, in the centre of the country. Around 140 km from the capital Warsaw, Łódź, is the traditional heart of the country’s textile industry and is now a favourite location for logistics companies operating within Poland and Eastern Europe.
Pall-Ex says the new ...
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Urgent logistics firm Priority Freight delivered a life-saving spare part for a hospital scanner from the Netherlands to Namibia in 48 hours recently.
The hospital faced problems when the only scanner on-site suffered a rare breakdown. Despite the best efforts by local engineers, the only way to resolve the issue was ...
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Temperature controlled packaging and equipment specialist Peli BioThermal has opened its first network station in China. Located in Shanghai, it will serve worldwide customers of the Crēdo on Demand rental program.
Vice president of global services, Dominic Hyde, said: “China is the second largest pharmaceutical market in the world, and the ...
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MSC is offering an intermodal road/rail route between the port of Djibouti and Ethiopia. It offers journey times of between one and four days to locations such as Addis Ababa, Hawassa, Modjo. Connecting MSC services at the port of Djibouti include the NWC IPAK service direct connection to North Europe.
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