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Peli Bio Thermals adds to single-use options

Temperature controlled packaging specialist Peli BioThermal is now offering customers of its single use products, such as the option to condition coolants at its 80 locations worldwide. It is aimed at companies that do not have the facilities, equipment or staff to condition their packaging. [+]

DP World takes the long view of rail transport

DP World says that its two deep-water ports at Southampton and London Gateway have become the first in the country capable of handling Freightliner’s new 775 metre intermodal container trains. The longest in use on the national rail network, the new 775 metre trains are 250 metres longer than a typical ... [+]

FedEx adds to Connect Plus network

FedEx has expanded its international day-definite Connect Plus service across Europe, following its launch in the UK and Italy in January. It is now also available in Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands. The service gives deliveries in Europe in 2-4 days, North America in three ... [+]

World Cup host Qatar kicks off TIR

The TIR system is set to go live in Qatar, just ahead of the country’s hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. With Qatar, five out of six Gulf Cooperation Council member states are now running TIR. TIR allows goods to be shipped from one country to another in sealed ... [+]

Atran gains animal certificate

Volga-Dnepr Group’s ATRAN Airlines has gained a Type 2 Transport certificate allowing it to carry live animals to, from and across Europe. The certificate which is valid to 2026 followed certification process under the IATA LAR (Live Animals Regulations) and European Council Regulation. The carrier’s general director, Vitaliy Andreev, said it would ... [+]

Freighter no. 4 for Cargologic

Leipzig/Halle –based freighter airline Cargologic Germany has received its fourth aircraft, a Boeing 737-400F transferred from Canada. It will be used mainly for intra-European express traffic. [+]

Hapag-Lloyd orders more boxes

Hapag-Lloyd has ordered 60,000teu of dry van standard containers in response to the worldwide shortage of boxes. It will bring the German line’s total fleet to 210,000teu. The first are scheduled to be delivered as early as July but the majority will be subsequently delivered in the third quarter of ... [+]

Trade still needs to get to grips with Brexit, warns Clecat

Five months after Brexit many traders are still not fully prepared for the ‘new normal’, forwarders’ organisation Clecat told the European Parliament on 26 May. At a hearing of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee, chair of the group’s Customs and Indirect Taxation Institute, Dimitri Sérafimoff, said that the industry ... [+]

One year on for Norvik

Stockholm’s new Norvik Port has celebrated its first birthday. Since its opening on 27 May 2020 it has developed into an important logistics hub for container ships, ro ro vessels, cargo transhipment and train shuttle services. Sweden’s first inland shipping barge shuttle service will also begin operation to and from ... [+]

Cathay moves test kits free to India

Cathay Pacific Cargo has airlifted 300,000 Covid-19 testing kits, a gift from the State of Oregon from Portland to Mumbai via Hong Kong on one of its Boeing 747 freighters. The airline partnered with  forwarder Expeditors and logistics company Davis Trucking and the Oregon Health Authority and Department of Administrative ... [+]

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