January 2025
German-owned forwarder Hellmann has appointed Gilles Duffaut as new managing director France. He succeeds Alex Delrue, who has managed both the Spanish and French subsidiaries for the past five years. Since opening its first own air- and seafreight branch near Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in 2019, Hellmann’s network in the country has grown to five branches.
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The Road Haulage Association is calling for a rethink of Schengen travel restrictions which dictate that non-EU nationals may spend only 90 days out of any 180 in the travel zone. It says that it poses issues with staffing, as firms with contracts in Europe will need to take considerable ...
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DP World is offering traders cross-border payment solutions based on ‘Stablecoins’, a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to another asset, such as a fiat currency or gold, to maintain a stable price. They provide an alternative to highly volatile popular cryptocurrencies. The Dubai-based ports and operator aims to ...
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Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Miliband opened ABP’s new Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF) on 23 January.
The £35 million project will serve for the offshore wind industry and includes expanded quay space and deep-water berthing, each equipped with bunkering, water and electric connections. They will ...
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Trading conditions in the UK may be tough at the moment with rising insolvencies but there has also been an upsurge in new small and medium-sized exporters and traders, DHL said in an Outlook Call on 24 January.
DHL Express Europe chief executive Mike Parra told the online gathering that “a ...
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Ports and logistics company DP World is to become a corporate partner of Transaid for three years. It joins more than 30 companies from across the sector that have pledged their support to Transaid, which has been the official charity of the UK transport and logistics industry for 27 years.
Chief ...
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Forth Ports Rosyth has invested in ten tractors and 13 trailers mainly to support bulk cargo import work for agri feed specialist Cefetra,
Cefetra, a long-term customer of the Port of Rosyth, Scotland’s largest agricultural products hub supplies the Scottish market with key raw materials for the feed, food and drink ...
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Air broker Chapman Freeborn has restructured its European cargo operations team with James Gilliard appointed vice president of cargo sales and Markus Schmidt vice president of cargo commercial operations, both reporting to Reto Hunziker who remains President of Europe.
Gilliard will lead client acquisition and expansion into new markets, whilst Schmidt ...
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DP World London Gateway and Southampton have donated over £26,000 to six local charities in Essex and Hampshire following the annual ‘Great Place to Work’ survey, which saw the port operator contribute to a specified charity after each completed employee response.
Little Haven’s Hospice in Essex, the Mountbatten Hampshire hospice, Solent ...
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Onne Multipurpose Terminal (OMT), International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) operation near Part Harcourt in south-eastern Nigeria, has put two new mobile harbour cranes and a container freight station into operation. The new cranes, valued at over US$25 million, will improve OMT’s efficiency and reduce vessel turnaround times.
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