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Maritime Transport celebrated its distribution division’s tenth anniversary on 1 February.
Initially providing container transport solutions from its 136-truck inception, Maritime diversified into domestic distribution sector in 2011 with the purchase of 100 curtainsiders. It now operates a fleet of 400 vehicles making an average of 6,000 customer deliveries per week.
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The InstaFreight digital platform has been contracted to organize transportation of Shell lubricants from Germany to Shell warehouses across Europe by road and rail. The move allows the oil company to cut CO2 emissions in transport by up to half, or more than 260 tonnes per year.
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Swire Shipping has opened an office in Lae, Papua New Guinea (PNG), within a kilometre of the country’s biggest port. PNG is one of the key markets for Swire Shipping which in 2020 upgraded its North Asia Express and Southeast Asia services. Branch manager is Ms Isabel Maguire.
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AP Moller - Maersk says it will launch the world’s first carbon neutral liner vessel in 2023 - seven years ahead of schedule. Maersk’s methanol feeder vessel will have a capacity of around 2,000teu and be deployed in one of its intra-regional networks. While the vessel will be able to ...
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Brittany Ferries is to extend the suspension of some of its services due to the continued stringent travel restrictions for passengers. Four ships that are currently laid-up, but which it had hoped to reinstate in late March, will not now resume service until mid-May at the earliest, it says.
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has written to German Chancellor Angela Merkel pointing out that her country’s refusal to exempt professional truck drivers from mandatory COVID-19 testing broke previous commitments on EU “green lanes” and the free movement of goods, and moreover dids not help curb the virus.
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Studies of the expected impacts of the European Commission’s Mobility Package I, adopted on 15 July 2020, confirm that they will have detrimental effects on the environment and functioning of the Single Market, says European forwarders’ association, Clecat. It says that the compulsory return of the vehicle to the Member ...
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Rik Pek is to become chief executive of Rotterdam-based family owned Broekman Logistics, taking over from Raymond Riemen, who acted as chief executive since 1999. Pek, who started his career at Broekman Logistics in 2005, held multiple roles with a commercial and operational background, most lately as managing director of ...
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Lorenzo Stoll is to become head of cargo at Swiss International Air Lines from 1 April, taking over from Ashwin Bhat, who has been appointed chief commercial officer at Lufthansa Cargo. Stoll joined Swiss as its head of western Switzerland in 2013, responsible for the operations and management of the ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has gained ISO 14001 certification for Environmental Management covering all its ports and terminals.
The ISO 14001 is the international standard that specifies requirements for an effective environmental management system (EMS). As part of the process, ABP’s existing systems were assessed against the certification’s formulation and ...
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