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The Bolloré group is considering selling its port and rail activities in Africa with potential buyers including CMA CGM and Maersk, according to reports in the French press. According to the reports, Morgan Stanley bank has been asked to discreetly sound out potential buyers. Bolloré’s Africa Logistics arm has operations in over 20 countries and runs 16 port concessions, warehouses and road and rail hubs, it had a a turnover ...
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Peel Ports, the UK’s second-largest port operator is calling for the supply chain to make better use of the entire port network across the country helping to address problems caused by bottlenecks in the South-East.
Managing director of group ports, David Huck, says that, according to Maritime UK figures, the top ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has introduced its CargoKiosk’ technology to process trucks and drivers making cargo deliveries and collections at London Heathrow airport.
Drivers arriving on-site no longer have to go to the station reception desk for paperwork to be checked manually before they are assigned a loading bay but instead ...
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Lufthansa Group rang down the curtain on the tri-jet era on Sunday 17 October when its last MD-11F landed in Frankfurt. Flight LH8161 from New York JFK touched down ahead of schedule at 12:03 p.m. local time on runway 07R, marking the end of commercial service of the aircraft type ...
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Dartford-based groupage operator Europa Worldwide has resigned from the Road Haulage Association (RHA) with chief executive Andrew Baxter saying he was disillusioned with its handling of Brexit and the fuel crisis.
In an open letter to the RHA he said he was appalled by the way the RHA had conducted itself ...
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Cargo technology firm Nexxiot has unveiled a gateway device for intermodal shipping containers that it says will revolutionize traceability and visibility of assets. The Globehopper Edge is a self-sustaining, zero-maintenance wireless connectivity device capable of transmitting thousands of data points every day from multiple onboard sensors that transmit information such ...
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PD Ports has granted a new long-term lease to Diffusion Alloys at Teesport Commerce Park, for construction of a new £1.5 million coating facility for large components and centre for excellence. Diffusion Alloys has occupied its current site at Teesport Commerce Park for over 18years and now, thanks to the ...
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FTA Ireland has described the country’s Budget for 2022 as a missed opportunity to support the logistics sector through the intense pressures it is facing.
FTAI chief executive Aidan Flynn said that the Irish Government’s Budget 2022 “flattered to deceive, offering very little support for hard-pressed logistics and freight distribution businesses ...
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Imported consumer goods should arrive in the country at least six weeks earlier than normal to make it onto shelves in time for Black Friday, according to JOC by IHS Markit.
Any goods from Asia will need to have cleared US ports by now if they are to be certain of ...
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Dublin Port Company (DPC) is to open an inland port will open in early November and has confirmed Dublin Ferryport Terminals (DFT) as the first company licenced to begin operating at the facility in the north of the city.
DPC says it will increase its capacity by 20%.
Dublin Inland Port is ...
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