February 2025
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has formally recognised
Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport has gained IATA CEIV Pharma accreditation. It follows similar accreditation by seven members of the airport’s Life Sciences community - American Airlines, Prime Air Corp, ETH Cargo, Expeditors, César Castillo, Isla Frio Refrigeration, and Ground Motive Dependable Airline Services.
The Community has been working closely with the airport and the Department of Economic Development and Commerce ...
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Logistics UK is to hold a free interactive ‘Demystifying Rail Freight’ workshop with Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT) on 27 February at London Waterloo Station.
It will break down the intricacies of rail transportation and give participants the knowledge and confidence needed to embark on their journey into rail freight.
It ...
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DP World’s Carbon Inset Programme has registered more than 100,000 TEUs worth of import laden containers in its first two months, says the ports and logistics operator.
Launched by DP World in the UK in December 2024, the six-month trial commenced on 1 January and rewards importers with 50kg CO₂e of ...
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Austrian-owned freight forwarder Gebrüder Weiss is opening a new location in Phoenix, Arizona, as part of its growth plan in the US. It will provide air and sea transport services including customs clearance and partial and full-load land transport.
Arizona is the most important state for transport to and from Mexico, ...
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Home Office Intelligence investigators have developed a new detection approach that queries the HMRC Compliance and Risk Engineering Solutions Team (CREST) for specific types of customs declarations uses other information including Companies House data to intercept suspect freight consignments.
The team of three is identifying 70 potentially suspicious companies each month, ...
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Turkish Cargo has integrated its COMIS eReservation system with the CargoWise platform. It can now offer shippers real-time rates, capacity availability and reservations. The API connection also eliminates errors from manual data entry. The system also offers the ability to modify a booking until final execution of the Master Air ...
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UPS has added a five-times-a-week Paris (CDG) - Hong Kong flight to meet expanding export demand.
France continues to be the largest exporter of wine and other food products to Hong Kong and Asia which accounts for over 20% of its total export market but faces increased competition from other European ...
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Supply chain visibility firm FourKites has welcomed two new members of staff who have no need for coffee breaks, lunch breaks, annual holidays or even sleep.
Tracy and Sam are the first digital ‘workers’ in a new system of AI agents for supply chain orchestration. It says it marks a fundamental ...
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Maastricht Aachen Airport is handling extra passenger and cargo flights during a strike by Belgian air traffic control and airport staff on 13 February.
National strikes across Belgium have caused major disruption, with no flights planned to take off from or land at Belgian airports, including Brussels and Liège.
Ethiopian Cargo has ...
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New York-based forwarding and logistics company Accelerated Global Solutions (AGS) is investing in a 15% stake in Malaysia-headquartered KGW Logistics.
AGS itself was acquired by Chris Zheng founder of last mile delivery specialist SpeedX in November.
You may recall that Chris Zheng, Founder of SpeedX, a tech-enabled last-mile delivery specialists,
AGS says the ...
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