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DHL Freight has broken ground on a new transhipment facility and warehouse at Erlensee near Frankfurt, due to open in mid-2022.
It will be built on the site of the former military air base at Erlensee and will include a cross-dock terminal, a specialist chemical warehouse and offices.
These will largely be created through the refurbishment of the former air base tower, now listed as a historical monument, but the new 82,840sq ...
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Deutsche Post DHL Group has signed an agreement to acquire up to 100% of specialist beverages forwarder JF Hillebrand Group and its subsidiaries for around €1.5 billion. It will be combined with DHL’s Freight division.
Hillebrand specialises in ocean freight forwarding, transport and logistics of beverages, non-hazardous bulk liquids and other ...
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Energy consulting firm, Wood Mackenzie has published a research paper recommending that the Firth of Forth become a Net Zero hub for Scotland.
It says that the development of net zero hubs around the UK has proved a key plank of the country’s strategy towards achieving net zero by 2050. Scotland, ...
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Gebrüder Weiss says the photovoltaic installation at its Graz site in Austria, commissioned in August 2020, is now generating over 460 megawatt hours of electricity every year, enough to meet around half the energy needs of the 27,000sq m building.
The logistics company already uses solar power at five other locations ...
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DSV says that it is increasingly using rail between China and Europe and it is an increasingly attractive means of shipping.
The forwarder says it takes between 15 and 18 days for Chinese and Russian trains to transport containers from northern and central China to Europe.
While the golden age of railways ...
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DSV has introduced an ETA (estimated time of arrival) to tell its clients when goods will arrive, reducing administrative time, eliminating phone calls. It is available through the booking, track and trace portal myDSV.
The first/last mile ETA is generated by the DSV Driver App; when trucks leave the DSV terminal ...
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DSV Panalpina has completed its takeover of Agility’s Global Integrated Logistics business. The acquisition puts DSV is in the top three global logistics companies, with expected combined revenue of about DKK 160 billion (US$25.3bn)and a combined workforce of 75,000 employees in more than 90 countries.
It follows the Danish giant’s earlier ...
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The Post Office has signed a deal with DPD to deliver parcels to its branches providing a quick and convenient location for people to collect them.
The ‘Click and Collect’ service will initially be available at around 250 Post Offices this month before rolling-out to approximately 1,500 branches across the UK ...
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The average number of weekly port calls at the Chinese port of Ningbo have plummeted 70% from nearly 200 container vessels to less than 60 this week, following the shut-down of terminals due to a Covid outbreak, reports the project44 shipping visibility platform.
Some 41 container ships were waiting for berth ...
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Virgin Atlantic is to launch twice-weekly Airbus A330 flights from Edinburgh to Barbados on 5 December and twice weekly flights to Orlando, Florida in April 2022, reports Routes Online.
It will also start a three times a week seasonal A330-300 winter service from Manchester to Montego Bay, Jamaica from 6 November ...
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