December 2025
Most of the vast numbers of consignments that DHL Group moves in a typical year are unremarkable parcels and containers but a few shipments stood out from the crowd in 2025.
For example, in February, DHL transported 17 mountain bongo antelopes from a conservation centre in Loxahatchee, Florida, to a wildlife sanctuary on the slopes of Mount Kenya, Africa’s second-highest peak. These animals are descendants of mountain bongos relocated from Kenya ...
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Europa Worldwide Group recently welcomed local MP Jim Dickson to its Dartford headquarters to discuss how to ease congestion in the area.Europa Worldwide Group’s 27,000sq m transit hub — the largest European groupage facility in the UK — is adjacent to the Dartford Crossing. Europa is a supporter of the ...
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Staffordshire-based specialist shipping company Robert Wynn & Sons has delivered a transformer to Statkraft’s Thornton Greener Grid Park Project in Hull, in partnership with Collett & Sons.
The operation began at Portland Port, where Wynns’ heavy lift ro/ro barge Terra Marique loaded a 24-axle girder frame trailer of 140 tonnes. The ...
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Peel Ports Group has become the first UK port operator to join the Construction Leadership Council’s Co2nstructZero programme. Co2nstructZero is the sector’s response to the Government’s 10-point plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, which was announced in 2020. The framework brings together leading businesses to accelerate progress towards the 2050 ...
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Netherlands gateway Maastricht Aachen Airport has confirmed Cor de Man as its new chief executive, from 1 February 2026.
He succeeds Jan Eerkens, who has been interim CEO since 1 November.
De Man has held executive and board positions at Turkish Airlines Cargo, UTi Worldwide/DSV and Broekman Logistics.
He said: “The coming years ...
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It’s a miracle that takeaways actually reach customers, say researchers at Cranfield University.
Boffins have been investigating the complex supply chain for British favourite, chicken tikka masala, and have found that it involves sourcing over 20 ingredients and packaging materials with origins that can be traced back to 36 different countries, ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and Swiss WorldCargo, both members of the Lufthansa Group, have started a new strategic cooperation. While both organizations will maintain their distinct brands, they are aligning closely to unlock commercial and operational synergies in, creating a single face to the customer along with a unified market approach, harmonizing ...
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A statement by the Suez Canal Authority that Maersk Line was poised to return its ships to the canal is premature, reports consultancy Ti in a recent Logistics Briefing.
Despite an apparent announcement on 25 November that Maersk would resume Gemini sailings through Suez and the Red Sea in early December,
this ...
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Heavylift logistics firm Mammoet has transported three offshore substations for the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger off the Northeast coast of England.
The wind farm is being developed by SSE, Equinor and Vårgrønn in 3 phases, Dogger Bank A, B and C. Mammoet was involved in each phase.
Fabricated by Aibel, ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has announced the first tranche of a capital investment programme in its five south Wales ports.The £42 million sum includes a new deep-water berth at Middle Quay, Newport, the UK’s largest steel-handling port, together with upgrades at Swansea and Cardiff, part of an eventual investment programme of ...
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