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Rhenus reminds importers: deadline day is looming

Rhenus is reminding UK importers who made the most of the Government’s Delayed Declarations scheme in January this year that they now have less than a month to complete customs formalities. They should get their paperwork in time for the rolling deadlines for customs clearance that start on 25 June. Following the end of the Brexit transition period, the UK Government introduced Delayed Declarations, giving businesses importing into the UK up ... [+]

Pallet-Track returns to its roots

Pallet-Track has opened a new hub to provide additional capacity, close to the original Black Country facility where it launched its business 17 years ago. The business launched in Woden Road West, Wednesbury in January 2004, moving 852 pallets on its first night of operation and now, after a record start ... [+]

Supply Chain Risk II

International transport insurer TT Club has produced a second series of its podcast giving  guidance to operators on managing their protection against theft and fraud. In Series 2 of its successful podcast, TT Live, risk management experts discuss current trends in criminal activity that target cargo in transit and storage. ... [+]

Government pledges £69m to boost Southampton rail freight

The Government has promised £69 million of funding for the first stage of the Oxford Phase 2 project to increase freight capacity between the Port of Southampton and the Midlands and North as part of a £401m package of investment in the railways. It also promised £317 million for the ... [+]

Dachser seeks more space

Dachser is to start replacing its fleets outside Germany with mega trailers over the next few years. While they have the same length and width as a standard semi-trailer, and their overall height remains below 4 meters, they boast an additional 20 centimetres in interior height, as the loading area ... [+]

Lithuania cargo gateway open for business

Šiauliai International Airport in north western Lithuania is close to completing a €9.5 million modernisation project including a widened runway that will allow it to handle the largest transatlantic aircraft such as the Boeing 747 or Airbus 330. At 3.5 km , it is the Baltics’ longest runway. The airport ... [+]

Geodis appoints automation expert

Antoine Pretin has joined Geodis as vice president engineering group. He will oversee automatisation of the forwarder’s service offerings to its customers. He has since 2014 been head of the distribution business at a VINCI Group company specializing in automated intralogistics solutions. He said: "The arrival of increasingly autonomous intelligent robots and ... [+]

Brittany shelves Porto plan

Brittany Ferries has shelved plans for a new route between the UK with Porto in Portugal due to start this summer. It said that the decision to re-open Spain to British tourists, combined with falling Covid cases and rapidly rising vaccination rates in the country, means opening a new Porto ... [+]

Agility sale approved

An Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting of Agility approved the sale of its Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) business to DSV Panalpina on 23 May. The acquisition will be an all-share transaction and closing is expected in the third quarter of 2021. Agility will become the second largest shareholder in DSV with ... [+]

Legal framework in force for eTIR

The legal framework for the full digitalisation of the TIR system has entered into force, opening eTIR to 77 countries across five continents. It will allow for completely paperless cross-border transit of goods, under the customs guarantee of the TIR system. The occasion was marked by a ceremony at the United Nations ... [+]

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