Chris
Gloucestershire Airport near Cheltenham has handled its first cargo plane, Global Airlift Solutions’ PC12NG aircraft, on a flight to Germany. Cargo flights will be handled by Weston Aviation at its facility and private ramp area.
Weston Aviation chief executive Nick Weston, commented: “I have been involved in urgent automotive logistics and handling for 30 years and understand the fine balance between the on-time delivery of cargo and where possible cost savings. ...
[+]
The government proposed changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol that will govern customs checks on goods moving to or from the province after Brexit in the Internal Markets Bill published on 9 September.
In contrast with the earlier agreement with the European Union, the new bill proposes that there would be ...
[+]
Goods road transport operators in France are still suffering, but is in a better position than at the start of the pandemic earlier when first quarter revenue was down by 27%, reports the country’s National Federation of Road Transport (FNTR).
Now, 5% of all trucks are still non-operational, and revenue for ...
[+]
Qatar Airways has restarted four times a week flights to Lagos, with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
[+]
Freightforwarder DB Schenker says it is offering a “stability package” for Damco customers following the AP Moeller-Maersk’s decision to discontinue the brand and its FCL NVOCC business.
It includes an offer to take over short-term service agreements of up to two months’ contract period for the same conditions as agreed with ...
[+]
DP World’s Jebel Ali Port in Dubai has welcomed the 24,000teu HMM Gdansk, one of the world’s largest container vessels, on the return leg of her maiden international voyage between the Far East and Europe. Sister ship HMM Hamburg recently visited her namesake port in Germany.
default
[+]
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has welcomed recent announcements by some container shipping lines that they will discontinue low sulphur fuel surcharges. BIFA says it has long challenged their legitimacy. It accused the carriers of profiteering when they announced in 2018, almost in unison, that they would be introducing ...
[+]
Freight forwarder Maurice Ward Logistics’ has rebranded its fridge trailers to reflect the expansion of its service portfolio to include ATP-certified transport of temperature-controlled goods including pharmaceuticals, frozen and heated goods at-24°C to +28°C. The fleet of 70 vehicles meets stringent environmental standards, and are all less than two years ...
[+]
Logistics software specialist Descartes Systems Group has repeated its warning that businesses are unprepared for Brexit at the end of the year. It says that the lack of certainty surrounding the deal still under discussion between the EU and UK is undermining certainty.
A survey by Sapio Research on behalf of ...
[+]
Eurotunnel operator Getlink’s Le Shuttle Freight traffic sustained its recent recoveryduring August with 110,327 trucks transported, only 7% below the levels seen in August 2019. The tunnel company reported in July that freight had returned to near-normal levels with 123,879 trucks carried, just 5% down on the same month in ...
[+]
« Back
More »
