June 2022
Clarion Events, organisers of the Multimodal 2022 show say that the event attracted record attendee numbers over the three days of the show.In total, 9,759 people filled Hall 1 at the NEC, up 30% on 2021 and up 7% on 2019 attendance.Highlights included a Ministerial policy launch, a BIFA Young Forwarders meeting, Maersk's rainbow container, Nestlé's double-stacking rail trailer, three packed seminar theatres and the Multimodal Awards.
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Georgia-based Batumi International Container Terminal (BICT) is now handling ADY Container LLC’s rail-sea service.
It connects Asia to Europe via the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, also known as the Middle Corridor, which has seen increased freight traffic due to the growing volume transiting through Azerbaijan, mostly exports from China.
For the sea ...
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The first discussion session of the North German seaports discussed closer cooperation at their first session in Berlin on 23 June.
More than 100 attendees followed the talks, which explored future strategies for the sector, which has gained national prominence in Germany in recent years. Bremen and Hamburg are in the ...
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Europa Group’s Air & Sea forwarding arm is to open a second overseas office, in Dubai. It follws the setting up of a Shanghai office in January.
Nathan Lynn (pictured), whose ten-year career in the industry includes seven years at Europa Road, before he will head up the team there.
Air & ...
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Peel Ports is to order two new cranes for its Greenock Ocean Terminal (GOT) on the west coast of Scotland.
The £17m tender is the largest single investment made at the container terminal since it opened in 1969.
GOT will later decommission its Crane No.3 which will be replaced in the short ...
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PD Ports took home the trophy for the ‘Innovation and Technology’ award at the Teesside heat of the North East Business Awards on 23 June.
With bold ambitions to make the River Tees the UK’s most successful port region by 2050, PD Ports continues to embrace digitalisation, led by two major ...
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IAG Cargo has launched a service from London Heathrow to Portland and has restarted flights to Pittsburgh for the first time since March 2020.
The brand-new service to Portland operates five times a week and is the only non-stop connection between Oregon and the UK. The service to Pittsburgh operates four ...
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The Romanian government has signed an agreement with Dubai’s Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC) and DP World to develop a ro ro terminal at the Port of Constanta. PCFC will work with DP World to modernise and develop the infrastructure on Pier II-S at the Port. DP World ...
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Broader and more inclusive policies offer freight firms of all sizes solutions to staffing and innovation challenges – and higher profits – recruitment experts highlighted at the Multimodal 2022 event in Birmingham on 16 June.
A robust Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) policy offers freight and logistics firms the opportunity to solve ...
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Aerospace logistics specialist B&H Worldwide has renewed its deal with Icelandair Technical Operations to manage its urgent airline spares shipments, a relationship which first began in 2017. The new contract is effective for three years, with an option to extend for two further years.
Icelandair Technical Operations is the maintenance and ...
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