February 2025
DFDS has signed an agreement with the Danish Defence to provide freight ferries for transport of military equipment, extending an existing contract for up to six years from 2026. Eight freight ro ro vessels are to be made available for the transport of equipment and other commodities for operations, missions, training exercises, humanitarian disaster relief situations and routine transport on the European continent. The vessels will be chartered and made ...
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The UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has warned that an uncertain immediate future for Government support for net zero shipping, combined with continued delays to an updated maritime decarbonisation strategy, could put at risk the UK’s leadership in cleaning up international shipping.
In its response, published on 13 February to its ...
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DHL eCommerce has acquired an equity stake in Saudi Arabian parcel logistics company AJEX. The Saudi company began its operations in 2021, and its 1,500 team members provide domestic parcel processing and delivery through a network of over 50 facilities and a fleet of more than 900 vehicles. AJEX will ...
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US headquartered forwarding and logistics company Expeditors has appointed current president of global geographies Daniel Wall as its next president and chief executive to replace Jeffrey Musser, who retires on 1 April. Wall joined Expeditors in March 1987 assuming his present position in January 2024.
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Stena Line held a ceremony to mark a milestone in its NewMax fleet investment programme to mark Stena Connecta’s launch into the water at the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard, Weihai, China in late February.
Stena Connecta is the second of two new ships due to serve the Belfast – Heysham route. ...
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Drivers from Dachser locations throughout Germany collected 12 new MAN eTGX trucks directly from the manufacturer in Munich on 21 February. The special ultra-low-liner tractors will allow the logistics operator to expand its electric fleet into its mega-trailer high-volume transport business.
The mega-trailers offer an additional 20cm interior height, as the ...
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Austrian-based forwarder Gebrüder Weiss is expanding its services in Poland to include international part and full truck loads (LTL / FTL) as well as additional warehousing and logistics solutions, including order picking. Companies can use the myGW customer portal to track their shipments in real time and have all documents ...
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Trade through Belfast Harbour increased slightly in 2024 as key goods and commodities in and out of Northern Ireland remained resilient in the face of global economic headwinds and high energy costs.
Releasing its annual trade figures, Belfast Harbour reported that 24.1 million tonnes of goods were handled by the port in ...
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Europa Air & Sea says it has increased its customer base and consignments by almost 200% since opening its Shanghai office in 2022. General manager Hugo Feng, at said: “We opened our doors with a team of seven and since then we have managed to increase our customer base and ...
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Minister of Transport Anthony Loke Siew Fook officially launched Kale Logistics Solution’s (Kale) Malaysia Maritime Single Window ((MMSW) on 17 February in Kuala Lumpur.
MMSW will immediately reduce vessel processing times from up to five days to a few hours, due to the real-time data.
Further phases of the project will see ...
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