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Ceva Logistics has launched a rail sea service from Xi’an, central China, to Immingham offering a port-to-port delivery time of 20 days. The pilot shipment of 25 containers left Xi'an by block train on 18 March for Kaliningrad, where the cargo was reloaded the same day onto a vessel that arrived in Immingham on 6 April. More trials will follow in May, with regular service starting by early June. CEVA’s ...
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Forwarding and logistics company Gefo reported €3.8 billion in revenues in 2020, a 19.7% decrease on the 2019 financial year, or-17.3% on a like-for-like basis. There was a slight decline in recurring EBIT margins from 4.3% in 2019 to 3.7% in 2020. However, it described its financial position as healthy, ...
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Internet retailers and other importers from the Far East are facing major supply chain disruption and increased costs because of the global shortage of shipping containers, says e-commerce fulfillment and specialist, Walker Logistics.
The scarcity of containers has pushed up shipping prices to near record highs: by the end of 2020, ...
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Lifestyle and furniture retailer made.com is to exercise an option to more than double its capacity at London Gateway’s Logistics Park.
The company will open an additional 350,000sq ft. of new warehousing over two phases, with the first phase complete by August this year and the second in April 2022. This ...
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Multimodal operator Samskip has created a dedicated air freight business, adding to its existing rail, road, shortsea and inland waterway offerings.Samskip Air will be based at Schiphol Airport, managed by Hans Blauw, who joins as airfreight manager after four years of running Fairways Group to support Aeroméxico and DHL Aviation. ...
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Stevedores Jenkins Group is to purchase Felixstowe and Ipswich-based Marexport UK from current owners, Del Corona Scardigli Group. The new locations will increast forest products specialist Jenkins network to 11 in the UK and Ireland.
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European short-sea operator CLdN has chartered two additional ro ro vessels to increase sailings on its Zeebrugge/Rotterdam/Dublin routes from eight to ten in each direction per week.
The line said the chartered vessels would prepare the way for the introduction of further new dual-fuelled (LNG) newbuilds arriving in the fourth quarter ...
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U-Freight Group says that the recent problems in the Suez Canal has boosted its rail route from China to Europe.Chief executive Simon Wong, said the service had continued “a sharp upward trajectory in 2021, following on from a strong 2020. The Covid pandemic, and the capacity problems in the air ...
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Rail and tank leasing company VTG regrouped all its Turkish activities under its VTG Nakliyat subsidiary. Business operations will be led jointly by Sinemis Özden, managing director VTG Nakliyat, and Zoltán Potvorszki, head of region south eastern Europe VTG Rail Logistics. The company plans to expand its rail, container and ...
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Virgin Atlantic has partnered with Khalsa Aid to deliver over 200 boxes of oxygen concentrators to Delhi to help India deal with an upsurge in the number of coronavirus cases. The equipment was flown on flight VS300 at 20:15 on Saturday 30 April from London Heathrow
The airline has subsequently offered ...
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