December 2025
The Government is to pay out funding of up to £130,000 to nine small and medium-sized firms to solve challenges in the freight and logistics industry, a total of nearly £1.1m under the latest round of the Freight Innovation Fund.
The fund aims to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in the freight sector, ranging from decarbonisation and wastage to efficiency and upskilling of staff.
The funding will allow businesses to ...
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The Alabama Port Authority has begun demolition and reconstruction of Pier B South, the first part of a multi-year program to modernize the Port of Mobile’s general cargo terminal. Built in the 1920s, Pier B South has served Alabama industries for nearly a century. Through a $100 million federal investment ...
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DP World is to unify its Marine Services brands, Unifeeder, P&O Ferrymasters and P&O Maritime Logistics, under a single DP World brand.
The businesses will now operate as: Shipping Solutions (formerly Unifeeder); Multimodal Solutions (formerly P&O Ferrymasters); and Maritime Solutions (formerly P&O Maritime Logistics).
The legacy brands will transition to the DP ...
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Rail operator Freightliner has signed a deal with leasing company Porterbrook for 150 new intermodal wagons on the UK railway, to be built by WH Davis in the UK. They will begin to arrive in early 2027 and will be a new design based on 40ft platforms which allow greater ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), a SATS company, has developed a new digital tool using machine learning algorithms trained on 10 years of operational data to deliver forecasts of cargo volumes by flight, truck, and day. It gives each warehouse precise data to align workforce and resources in advance.
The air cargo ...
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TAP Air Portugal has expanded its GRU Connect cargo service to São Paulo, Brazil. The Portuguese airline now offers four routes and a total of 37 weekly cargo flights to Guarulhos Airport. Along with the existing GRU Direct, Via Fortaleza and Via Brasília services, the network now includes the new ...
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Arvato held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 40,000sq m logistics hub in Çayırova near Istanbul, Türkiye on 8 December. The new warehouse, which is scheduled to go into operation in October 2026, is the logistics operator’s 11th operations centre in the country.
“While we are continuing to expand our operational ...
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Dachser is creating a new location for food logistics in southwest Germany by expanding its existing logistics centre for industrial and consumer goods in the Breisgau industrial park near Freiburg. The new transit terminal, which will be cooled to 2 to 7 degrees Celsius is scheduled to go into operation ...
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Last-mile parcel delivery company SpeedX has opened an e-commerce and freight hub Chicago O’Hare International Airport with a capacity of a million parcels per day. The 200,000sq ft building includes an auto-sorter with processing speeds of up to 30,000 parcels per hour and 500,000 shipments daily during peak season.
It offers ...
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Christmas came early for global air cargo volumes in November with a further +5% year-on-year boost in demand adding to the seasonal cheer, but the industry’s e-commerce ‘growth engine’ of the past two years is slowing down, according market analysis from Xeneta.
While the demand for the traditionally busiest time of ...
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