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DHL’s Saloodo! digital road freight platform is offering a new road freight connection between the Gulf (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman) and Egypt, Libya and Sudan North Africa. BeduConnect was set up to connect countries of the Arabian Peninsula with North African trading partners due to tight capacity in air and sea freight.Saloodo! chief executive for Middle East and Africa, Tobias Maier, said: “Road freight is particularly ...
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Samskip has established its own business entity in Finland, replacing an agency arrangement. The new organisation, based in Helsinki, will be led by country manager Atte Ingman (pictured below) who has 30 years of experience representing European and Asian shipowners, including establishing successful subsidiaries in Finland for shipping principals.
Regional director ...
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Kansas City forwarder the Scarbrough Group has signed a deal with Vector.ai for an artificial intelligence platform to automate its accounts payable and customs declaration tasks. It provides Scarbrough Group with a central hub for its customs brokerage and finance teams to collaborate while simultaneously extracting commercial invoice data for ...
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The time container ships spend waiting on anchor for berths more than doubled since 2019, according to Port Performance Data from business analystics firm, IHS Markit. North America saw the biggest deterioration with vessels spending on average 33 hours on anchor in May 2021 versus 8 hours in May 2019.
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A parcel broker says the Government is having ‘secret’ talks that could result in non-UK HGV drivers, including EU nationals, being called back to the country on temporary visas.
ParcelHero’s head of consumer research, David Jinks says that the driver shortage is potentially that it could lead to empty shelves or ...
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Dublin Port Company reports that its volume in the first half of 2021 have recovered and are now only 2.1% below last year’s level.Following a weak first quarter, (when volumes declined by -15.2% in the first three months after Brexit), there was a 13.1% increase to 9.0m gross tonnes in ...
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The boss of a UK online retailer is calling for the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the ‘cartel’ operated by container shipping lines. Nick Glynne, chief executive of online retailer of Buy it Direct Group, says that the cost of shipping large items internationally has increased sevenfold in a ...
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Logistics UK has launched a Route to Net Zero campaign to encourage its 18,000 member businesses to commit to decarbonising their operations as quickly, effectively and as urgently as possible to help the UK achieve carbon neutrality ahead of the legal deadline of 2050. It is calling on its members ...
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Brittany Ferries’ ro-pax ferry Cap Finistère returns to service between Portsmouth and Bilbao on 19 July. It follows a six-month break in sailings forced by coronavirus travel restrictions, and consequent drop in freight and passenger demand.
But with demand returning, the first Cap Finistère sailing of 2021 will depart Portsmouth for ...
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UK-based start-up airline, Hans Airways has appointed Air Logistics Group as its network-wide cargo general sales and service agent (GSSA). East Midlands-based ALG will provide Hans Airways with full cargo sales, marketing, online booking and customer service support across its network.
Hans Airways is preparing to launch direct non-stop flights from ...
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