May 2025
Bournemouth Airport’s Cargo First division has had its best ever year, with gross cargo leaping from 18,000 tonnes in 2024 to 31,000 tonnes for the 12 months to the end of March 2025.
It pushes the south coast gateway to eighth in the UK for airfreight.
Cargo First says its performance was underpinned by growing e-commerce imports and a significant increase in UK exports. In the first few months of 2025, export ...
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Following the announcement of its merger with DHL eCommerce, UK parcels firm Evri said it itself had taken a controlling interest in one of Irish e-commerce delivery firm, Coll-8. The Dublin-based company services 500 pick-up and drop-off locations through a third-party mode, many of which are at premises managed by ...
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Arvato is expanding its US presence with a 400,000sq ft (37,000sq m) logistics facility in the greater Louisville, Kentucky area. The German-owned logistics specialist already operates five locations in the region with more than 1,000 employees.
Opening of the new center is planned for the first quarter of 2026, and forms ...
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Peel Ports Group is partnering with Medcem to create a deep-water cement terminal at the former P&O site at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool.
This investment comes as the government has committed to building 1.5 million homes by the end of the current parliament.
Construction is scheduled to begin shortly, with completion anticipated by ...
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Customs Support Group is rolling out an AI solution that it says will deliver efficiency savings of up to 50% on declaration documentation preparation.
CSG has trialled its Customs SmartAssist solution in the UK and is now rolling it out across 14 European markets, and has set a target of a ...
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DP World says it will invest $2.5 billion this year in four major projects worldwide. They include expansion of the London Gateway hub, where the Dubai-based company is investing $1 billion to build two new shipping berths and a second rail terminal.
Construction is underway on a new $510 million terminal ...
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Freight and logistics groups have welcomed a new deal signed between the UK and European Union on 19 May could reduce border checks on animal and plant shipments under a new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement, saying that it could remove one of the most troublesome aspects of the post-Brexit ...
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DP World has issued the first certificates from its Carbon Inset Programme, after more than 150,000 import containers were registered since its launch in January.
The trial, which began on 1 January, rewards cargo owners with 50kg CO2e of carbon credits for every loaded import container moved through DP World’s UK ...
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MSC has upgraded its West Coast feeder service adding a weekly call in Felixstowe to give quicker access to North-West and Scottish markets. Port rotation is now Le Havre-Antwerp -Felixstowe-Liverpool-Greenock- Le Havre-Sines-Vigo-Gijon-Bilbao-Le Havre. MSC says it reduces transit times to Liverpool and Greenock by up to seven days from Asia ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to market cargo capacity on Italian carrier ITA Airways.
From 16 June, it will offer capacity under its own AWB prefix from São Paulo (GRU), Rio de Janeiro (GIG) and Buenos Aires (EZE) to Rome. On all other routes, both airlines will initially continue to operate under two ...
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