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AAL Shipping is taking delivery of two additional ‘G-Class’ multipurpose heavy lift vessels, expanding its core fleet to a total of 720,200 deadweight tonne. The Pacific Action and AAL Gladstone have both served in the AAL fleet in the past and re-join later this month – the former renamed this week, ‘AAL Gibraltar’. They feature a total cargo intake of 35,705 cubic meters, four large cargo holds, three tweendecks and ...
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The Government’s Brexit plans are in crisis, with the EU threatening legal action over Northern Ireland border checks and UK e-commerce stores facing a 35% drop in sales of products sourced outside the country, says ParcelHeroThe parcels service broker warns Brexit is likely to cost UK traders £5.25bn in lost ...
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Digital solutions provider CargoAi is to appoint a board of expert advisors tasked with reflecting on the industry’s digital transformation and actively steering CargoAi in developing value-added solutions for the cargo community. It will meet quarterly, with the first remote meeting taking place in April.The Board is currently formed of ...
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Le Shuttle Freight was down 24% in February compared with the same month in 2020, at 99,787 trucks. The tunnel operator said the market still marked by the adjustments to new post-Brexit administrative rules, “but with a trend towards normalization”. The compulsory negative Covid test, for truck drivers entering France ...
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Deutsche Post DHL Group has announced a share buyback program of up to €1 billion. The company said its decision is in line with the group's corporate finance against the background of strong free cash flow generation and the positive further outlook.
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Concerns are mounting over the owner of a private UK port operator after its financial backer went into administration on 8 March. Specialist bank Greensill Capital was the main lender to Sanjeev Gupta, whose interests include Simec Ports, which owns and operates Bird Port on the river Usk near Newport ...
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Online order management platform One World Express has become an Authorised Economic Operator for Customs Simplification (AEOC). As an AEOC, One World Express is granted greater access to faster application process for customs clearance and guarantee waivers of deferment. The company will also benefit a lower risk score, which could ...
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There is still an alarming shortage of drivers worldwide, despite reduced demand due to Covid-19, says the International Road Transport Union in its latest survey. Surveying 800 road transport companies from over 20 countries, IRU found that the shortage was most acute in Eurasia, where last year 20% of driver ...
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Intermodal transport operator Maritime Transport has unveiled 25 newly-liveried tractor units in recognition of the incredible work carried out by the NHS, and the valuable contribution key workers across many sectors have made during the pandemic. A wave-shaped rainbow replaces the normal blue Maritime wave on the newly-acquired Scanias and ...
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ABP’s Port of Ipswich, owned by Associated British Ports (ABP) has handled 2 million tonnes of cargo since the beginning of the first lockdown in 2020. The port broke the 2m tonne-mark when around 9,000 tonnes of aggregate w arrived on board of the hopper dredger Charlemagne, which self-discharged at ...
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