July 2025

World’s biggest car carrier makes maiden call in Bristol

The world’s largest car carrier, Anji Ansheng, operated by China’s state-owned SAIC Motors logistics arm, made its maiden voyage to Bristol Port in late June. At 228 metres long and 37.8 metres wide, this ship has just claimed the global record with a capacity for 9,500 cars.The ship set sail from China on 13 May. Bristol harbour master, Stephen Birt, presented the captain with a plaque.Every year, Bristol Port handles over 700,000 ... [+]

Swiss WorldCargo joins United-Lufthansa cargo alliance

Swiss WorldCargo is to join its sister company Lufthansa Cargo's and United Cargo's existing joint business agreement for Transatlantic routes to and from Europe. Lufthansa Cargo and United Cargo have cooperated in various areas over the past few years, including sales, customer relations and networks between the US and Europe. Under the ... [+]

Creating the right chemistry in Antwerp

DP World has opened a chemicals warehouse in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. The new 8,250-square-metre facility is located near DP World’s Antwerp Gateway terminal, and meets the highest safety and compliance standards for chemical storage and distribution. The warehouse can handle all ADR-classified chemicals, excluding ADR Class 1 (Explosives) and ... [+]

DP World Trade Finance reaches $1bn-mark

DP World Trade Finance has now surpassed the $1 billion mark in trade financed, four years since the platform's launch. DP World Trade Finance combines its regulatory lending license with its global logistics network. This integrated model helps lenders make faster, more informed decisions, says DP World. The milestone was achieved through ... [+]

Air Canada Cargo launches new-look platform

Air Canada Cargo has redesigned its eBooking platform. Customers can now get real-time feedback and validation, create batch bookings, e-AWB and submit release letters. The interface has been made more user-friendly with a dashboard to keep track of shipments with dynamic booking flows and calculation fields. Auto-confirmation is available for general cargo ... [+]

Ceva opens China TIR centre

Ceva Logistics has opened an International Road Transport (TIR) Centre in Alashankou, China. The 4,300 square meter site is its first TIR hub to consolidate inbound and outbound TIR road freight and is expected to reduce transit time by nearly 30% and cut costs by 15%. It is located in the ... [+]

Swissport acquires London handler ASC

Swissport, a global leader in airport ground services and air cargo handling, has signed binding transaction agreements to acquire ASC, which provides ground handling and cargo services at London Heathrow and Gatwick airports. It said that the move would provide additional capability and gives it access to additional cargo capacity at ... [+]

Rotterdam sees first-half fall

Cargo throughput at the port of Rotterdam decreased by 4.1% to 211.0 million tonnes in the first half of 2025, although container throughput increased 2.7% in TEUs but and decreased in tonnage (1.0%). The growth in TEU can be explained by the upturn in European consumption, although an increase in the ... [+]

Southampton helps Felixstowe celebrate first Premier Alliance call

The Port of Felixstowe handled its first call by the Premier Alliance's FE4 service between Asia and North Europe with the arrival f the 24,000TEU HMM Southampton on 20 July 2025 from Singapore via the Cape of Good Hope. The Premier Alliance was formed in February 2025 by Ocean Network Express ... [+]

Cargo.one brings power of AI to bear on airfreight quotation

The Cargo.one platform is now offering AI-powered quoting and rate management capabilities to help forwarders win more business.AI automates extraction of shipment details and rate collection, eliminating manual data entry and quote preparation time, with a unified queue feature enabling team collaboration on quotations. Cargo.one now brings all rates, including ... [+]

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