June 2025

BIFA adds more customs modules

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has added new modules to its Bitesize eLearning programme launched earlier this year. They supplement the existing CDS Compliance course and encompass a variety of Customs regimes including Returns Goods Relief, Temporary Admission, and Inward Processing for imports; as well as Outward Processing, Export from a Customs Warehouse and Standard Export. Whilst the initial CDS Compliance is a mandatory module, centred around an import home-use ... [+]

Eight into One will go

All-cargo carrier Air One has moved eight 12-metre furnace coil boxes from Liège to Abu Dhabi on behalf of heavylift forwarder. Deugro The cargo was loaded through the nose door of a 747-400 freighter from the fleet of Air One’s affiliated UK cargo airline, One Air and weight a total of ... [+]

Transaid bolsters Ethiopian pharma deliveries

Transaid has partnered with fellow nonprofit organisation American International Health Alliance (AIHA) on a 12-month supply chain strengthening project, funded by The Gates Foundation, with Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Supply Services (EPSS). Transaid will support staff development at the Addis Ababa-based agency which procures nearly US$1 billion worth of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies ... [+]

Awery’s Vitaly Smilianets is TIACA inspiration

Awery Aviation Software founder and chief executive Vitaly Smilianets was awarded the first Inspirational Leader Award at The International Air Cargo Association’s (TIACA) Executive Summit  in Hong Kong on 25 June. It recognises individuals who have demonstrated clear leadership and empowered young people in the industry. The winner was selected by ... [+]

Record-breaking Multimodal 2025 Awards honour logistics leaders. FBJ Sponsor.

Multimodal 2025 kicked off with a triumphant celebration of logistics excellence, as Cameron Bowie of Hapag-Lloyd claimed the prestigious Personality of the Year title. The annual awards ceremony drew a record number of industry professionals for an evening that recognised outstanding achievement across every sector of the UK's logistics ... [+]

Roll Group opens Louisiana yard

Roll Group has opened its latest Americas Project office and yard in Saint Gabriel, Louisiana. It includes three acres of laydown/storage area, with access to an additional five acres for storage and maintenance operations. The petroleum industry between Lake Charles and New Orleans drives constant demand for transport and lifting ... [+]

ASM calls for action after Single Trade Window is canned

Freight software firm Agency Sector Management (ASM) programme manager Simon Adams has called for the government to act decisively following the effective shelving of the Single Trade Window (STW) project. He said: "The STW began as a step in the right direction, but the execution, what there was of it, missed ... [+]

More members for Move to -15°C

Eighteen months from its launch, the Move to -15°C Coalition has now expanded from 11 founding members to 55 organisations. The grouping, recently convened in London to reaffirm its mission to explore and enable a temperature shift in frozen food logistics from -18°C to -15°C. This could cut global emissions ... [+]

FourKites brings heathcare monitoring into the 21st Century

Yusen Logistics’ European healthcare division is now using FourKites’ NIC-Place carrier visibility system to track and monitor its customers’ assets and enable European road carriers to safely share data, and optimise logistics processes. It provides real-time tracking of temperature controlled vehicles and gives real-time, accurate estimated arrival times, delay notifications, and ... [+]

Government unveils trade strategy for turbulent times

The government has published the UK’s first Trade Strategy since the country left the EU. It said it would make the UK the most connected nation in the world and would help deliver economic growth.  It said it would take a more agile and targeted approach than the previous government’s, focusing ... [+]

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