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Drax wagons roll for five more years

GB Railfreight (GBRf) has extended its contract to move biomass from the ports of Tyne and Liverpool to Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire until 2025. The partnership dates back to 2010 when GBRf began moving biomass by rail from the Port of Tyne, initially using converted coal wagons. Drax has since invested in new purpose-built biomass wagons that are larger and more efficient. [+]

Wilson James builds for the future in Tilbury

Construction logistics specialist Wilson James has expanded its warehousing and consolidation capacity at the port of Tilbury. The new facility augments the company’s existing London Construction Consolidation Centre and helps it to deliver material and equipment to sites in ever-shorter timeframes. Wilson James created the LCCC in East London in 2005, ... [+]

Eurotunnel trucks stage recovery in July

Eurotunnel operator Getlink says it Le Shuttle Freight traffic returned to near-normal levels in July with 123,879 trucks carried, just 5% down on the same month in 2019. It attributed the improvement to the strengthening of anti-Covid and truck driver  well-being measures. On July 8, daily truck traffic reached a ... [+]

Mixed picture for freight recruitment

Personnel specialist Red Recruit Global reports that the last month has been very busy in the shipping sector, with some forwarders reporting shipments at pre-COVID levels and a 72% rise in vacancies from July to the current time (early August). The time needed to fill vacancies has also reduced dramatically, ... [+]

Agri firm honours ACL

Transatlantic ro ro and container line ACL has been recognized by agricultural machinery firm AGCO as a partner-level supplier. AGCO’s partner-level suppliers have surpassed the top level of achievement in innovation, world-class service, global growth, and cost savings, and have helped the company maintain the highest levels of capacity and ... [+]

Young Forwarder regional winners announced

The regional winners of the Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award (YIFFYA) have been announced. They are: Europe: Ms Femke Marie Fürst (Germany); Africa and Middle East: Ms Vimbai Loreen Manyumbu (Zimbabwe); Americas: Ms Anastasia Gureeva (Canada); and Asia Pacific: Mr Umair Aamir Sheikh (Pakistan). Organisers the International Federation ... [+]

Airfreight continues to climb out of the trough

Global air continued to show a ‘gradual but consistent’ month-on-month recovery in July, increasing by 8% over June, according to the latest market analysis by CLIVE Data Services. July 2020’S performance was -20% versus the same month a year ago but still reflected an improving monthly trend in the level of ... [+]

New China rail road options for UK regions

Davies Turner has added Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester to destinations directly served by its weekly fixed-day rail-road consolidation service from China to the UK, in addition to its Dartford. The forwarder and its Chinese partners to ensure that shipments destined for the same hub are loaded into the same container, ... [+]

Crisis has made us stronger, says DHL chief

Global freight and parcels giant Deutsche Post DHL Group says it “has successfully weathered the crisis so far” with “significant increase in revenue and operating profit in the second quarter” in its latest financial statement.Group revenue grew by 3.1% to €16.0 billion in spite of Covid-19, while operating profit jumped ... [+]

Huge Beirut port explosion brings back memories of Tianjin – further updated

A massive double explosion in the port of Beirut on the afternoon of 4 August killed dozens of people and left many more injured. The explosion was reported to have originated in an area of the port used for dangerous cargoes. The country’s President, Michel Aoun is reported as saying that ... [+]

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