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Dnata has signed a five-year lease with Sydney Airport to expand its existing cargo facility by 4,800sq m. The enlarged 16,300sq m site with direct ramp access will feature an increased number of landside and airside docks as well as enhanced processing capacity and throughput.
Dnata also operates a 10,000 sqm dedicated import warehouse at Sydney’s Eastern Suburb of Matraville, where containers are broken down and loose cargo are collected by ...
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Collaboration is common enough these days in shipping, but the organisers of the Nor-Shipping conference have broken new ground with – wait for it – a rock band.
They have gathered together a band of shipping executives for its Today Show by Nor-Shipping, taking place on 1 June as part of ...
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Teesport has gained another rail link to central Scotland, to Elderslie near Glasgow. The route is a northwards extension of the existing Teesport to Doncaster service, and will be operated by GB Railfreight. It will allow for the deposit of empty containers and collection of export cargo through Teesport in ...
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Yusen Logistics (UK) has appointed Paul Simmonds as head of air freight forwarding and Pete Bagnall as head of ocean freight forwarding. Paul Simmonds (top picture) has held various UK and regional operations roles at Lufthansa Cargo, Schenker, CEVA and CH Robinson and joined YLUK in July 2019 as branch ...
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Portsmouth International Port’s Portico customs agency has seen a 2,270% year-on-year increase in export declarations in the first three months of 2021. There was also a 600% year-on-year increase in import declarations. The agency has recruited 35 additional staff.
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has launched a Green Compact for collective global action to achieve carbon neutrality in commercial road transport services by 2050. Decarbonising the sector, comprising more than 65 million heavy-duty vehicles and accounting for approximately 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions, is essential to achieve global ...
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Rhenus has opened a fourth site on Magna Park in Lutterworth. It will be used as a dedicated solution for new business in machinery manufacturing.Rhenus Warehousing Solutions Lutterworth, formerly CML, has been operating on Magna Park for 22 years and already occupies three warehouses on the park. The latest building ...
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SCA, Europe’s largest private forest owner and producer of wood products, packaging paper, pulp and renewable energy, is to return to the Port of Tilbury from Sheerness. The Swedish owned company has signed a long term deal with the UK Paper Hub at the Forth Ports-owned gateway. The 50-acre facility ...
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The German army is transporting equipment back from its mission in Afghanistan through Leipzig/Halle Airport, starting on 18 May with two helicopters on board an Antonov Airlines 124 cargo plane. The aircraft were being unloaded by handler PortGround, a subsidiary of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen. The Ukrainian airline has had two 124-100s ...
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Carriers are canceling sailings well into the summer, indicating that under capacity will remain a headache for the foreseeable future, says shipping analyst Project44.
It adds that among the three major alliances, there is a significant variance in blank sailing rates, with certain carriers like HMM skipping ports more often than ...
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