January 2023
Jesper Axell has been appointed managing director for Geodis Sweden. He has served as deputy managing director since 2018, having joined the French-owned logistics and forwarding company in 2006 and will continue to report to the Scandinavian sub-regional managing director, Magnus Tornerhjelm.
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Logistics company XPO has developed a multimodal service to move products for energy management and automation firm Schneider Electric between France and the UK.
XPO’s road fleet transports containers of freight from Schneider Electric’s Mions site near Lyon to the rail terminal in Vénissieux to Dourges from where they travel by ...
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Rhenus UK is urging exporters to prioritise plans to move to HMRC’s new Customs Declaration Service (CDS) export platform to avoid potentially costly delays. CDS is due to rplace the old CHIEF system from 30 November, following the switch of import declarations to CDS in October 2022.
UK customs manager, Rob ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has appointed current vice president region for Latin America and Caribbean, Carsten Hernig as deputy general manager and vice president production, sales and marketing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport Cargo Terminal (PACTL). He is responsible for production, sales and marketing at the joint venture between Lufthansa Cargo and ...
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Forth Ports has had a bumper ‘tattie’ season with 65,000 tonnes of seed potatoes exported around the world from Grangemouth. October and November are the port’s peak months for the trade with over half of the annual total of reefer containers passing through the terminal.
Every year, around 3,500 reefers containing ...
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The Freightos booking and payment platform is to list on the US NASDAQ exchange following the closing of its business combination with Gesher Acquisition Corporation. Freightos connects airlines, liner shipping companies, trucking companies and freight forwarders with over 10,000 importers and exporters, offering rate comparison, booking, payment, and shipment management.
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MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk are to terminate the 2M vessel sharing agreement in January 2025. Introduced in 2015, it created one of the largest container shipping operations in the world and operated on the Asia-Europe, Transatlantic and Transpacific trades. The 2M agreement has a minimum term of ...
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended that the Liner Shipping Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) be replaced by a Liner Shipping Consortia Block Exemption Order (CBEO) tailored to the needs of UK businesses and consumers when it expires on 25 April 2024.
However, the CMA proposes that any ...
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Air Canada has appointed Jon Turner as vice president, cargo from February 18. He is currently vice president, inflight services. With three dedicated Boeing 767 freighters now in the fleet and seven more on the way, plus two Boeing 777 freighters due for delivery in 2024, he will have oversight of ...
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Transport insurer TT Club has helped the Police’s National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) write a Problem Profile on freight crime, which aims to obtain increased public funding to address the situation.
The report details types of crime, methodologies, locational analysis and the direct and indirect costs of freight crime to ...
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