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DFDS and iPort Rail have launched a container rail service between the port of Immingham and the inland terminal in Doncaster.
The Humber Express will initially operate twice a day but the operation could be scaled up significantly, said the two partners. Initially, the trains can handle 22 containers each but this could also be scaled up to up to 36 boxes.
Although the port of Immingham is a major generator of ...
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The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have gone a very busy, disrupted summer to “an uncontrollable Autumn”, says visibility specialist FourKites.
Berthing times slowly increased to 1-3 day averages, with ebbs and flows week to week but then spiked to up to 10 days in September.
According to FourKites’ data, ...
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Kuehne+Nagel has opened a 34,000sq m fulfilment centre in Contern, Luxembourg, the EU's smallest member state. Services on offer include inventory management, picking, packing and shipping orders and managing returns.
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BIFA says it welcomes some of the Chancellor’s announcements in Wednesday’s Budget, but that it was overshadowed by the ongoing uncertainty over the shape that Brexit from the EU is taking.Director general Robert Keen said: “We welcome the news that the planned increase in fuel duty has been scrapped, and ...
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Government ministers are “panic flip-flopping” on the recruitment of drivers from Europe on short-term visas and the cabotage according to Stuart Charter, managing director of Aztek Logistics, part of the Pallet-Track network.
He said the government’s thinking is muddled when it comes to solving the short and long-term HGV driver shortage. ...
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Manchester Airport will become the first in the UK to have a direct feed of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) with the signing of a partnership between owner Manchester Airports Group (MAG) and Fulcrum BioEnergy. MAG – which owns Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports - has signed a memorandum ...
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German-owned logistics provider Dachser says it will obtain all its electricity worldwide from renewable sources and will quadruple the amount of green electricity it generates itself using photovoltaic systems.
The company, which operates 387 of its own locations in 42 countries, is increasing its proportion of green power from around 60 ...
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Education charity Career Colleges Trust (CCT) has unveiled plans to develop a cluster of further education (FE) colleges offering dedicated logistics programmes, with the support of the Multimodal exhibition and conference.
CCT has eight colleges already involved in the development of its new Logistics Programme, seven of which are recruiting students ...
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American Airlines Cargo will offer services from London Heathrow to nine US cities from November in its winter schedule. It will operate double daily to New York JFK, and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and daily to Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia Chicago and Charlotte .
There will also be a ...
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Ceva Logistics moved 700,000 doses of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine from Beijing to Entebbe International Airport for the Ugandan Ministry of Health under its Forpatients healthcare scheme. The product required a temperature of between 2 to 8°C throughout transport and storage. Ceva said its team responded quickly to provide a ...
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