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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has signed an agreement with Drewry to help bring the maritime research consultancy's confidential freight rate benchmarking service to its members.
It follows the signing in June by European forwarder’s group umbrella CLECAT of an agreement to raise awareness the Club amongst its membership. Launched in 2019, Drewry Forwarder Benchmarking Club follows a similar model to Drewry’s other freight cost benchmarking services, providing a confidential, ...
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P&O Ferrymasters is joining forces with Nordic freight forwarder Scan Global Logistics to improve their service between the Benelux region and Sweden. The two partners will offer daily truck departures for full truckload, less than truckload and groupage.
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Clarion Events has published details of the first online event for Multimodal Connect, the online forum that has been set up following the postponement of the show and conference to March next year.
The session, 'Accelerating eCommerce fulfilment: capacity, compliance and profitability' will be held on 15 July in partnership with ...
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European forwarders’ association Clecat has joined an initiative started last year by Drewry and the European Shippers’ Council to define fair principles and a clear indexing mechanism for Bunker Adjustment Factors in container shipping. The three organisations will promote the voluntary use of the indexing mechanism for fuel charges. They ...
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The Chinese city of Chengdu is in the process of building a high tech maglev railway system in which the trains, suspended by magnetic levitation, glide along without touching the tracks. However, to reach their workplace from the manufacturer in Munich, Germany, the new trains flew a good deal higher, ...
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Many companies, particularly freight forwarders, are failing to properly describe goods being moved within the European Union, says managing director of Manchester-based Ital Logistics, Phil Denton.
While there is no requirement from Customs to give accurate descriptions for intra-EU traffic, it is still important for other reasons, especially where fragile, high ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the global air freight markets in May showed a slight improvement and that capacity remains unable to meet demand as a result of the loss of belly cargo operations on passenger aircraft. Demand, measured in cargo tonne-kilometers, fell by 20.3% in May (-21.5% ...
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DHL Express is planning what it bills as the “perfect flight” from Leipzig to New York JFK on 1 July. Thanks to the decimation of regular scheduled passenger flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the express carrier’s A330-200F freighter aircraft is expected to consume considerably less fuel with ...
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Eurotunnel operator Getlink has appointed Vincent Ducros as group environment director. He previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ major programme management entity, including a rail infrastructure programme and several infrastructure projects in the low carbon sector and has been project manager at Suez Recycling and Recovery France since 2018.
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FTA Ireland (FTAI) has applauded the appointment of Hildegarde Naughton as the country’s first dedicated minister for transport and logistics.
General manager Aidan Flynn, said the association had been campaigning for for several years and was ready and willing to work closely with the newly-formed coalition between Fianna Fail, Fine Gael ...
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