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CCS-Hauts-de-France, which represents the Dunkirk port community, has chosen Ci5 as the cargo community system to manage its goods flows. A contract signed on 2 April for a renewable five-year term aims to have all freight processed on the new system by 6 October. System builder MGI’s team will train more than200 Dunkirk users over a three-week period starting in September and shipping agents, forwarders, transport companies, terminal operators, customs ...
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Damco says that its business resilience programme has helped it to keep cargo moving despite Covid-19 disruption. The programme, developed over the last 18 months, prepares all staff for over 47 different scenarios, which could disrupt the supply chain, including a pandemic. Local and global teams communicate in real time ...
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Davies Turner has signed an exclusive partnership with Freiburg, Germany-based, Streck Transport to increase its scheduled overland trailer services with Germany.
Davies Turner beat off strong competition other UK forwarders to secure the cooperation agreement with Streck, which had been left without a British partner following the ending of its relationship ...
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Forth Ports says that its eight UK ports including Tilbury, Grangemouth, Leith, Rosyth and Dundee have managed 74,000 tonnes of wheat - the equivalent of 148 million loaves of bread; 40,000 tonnes of food for supermarket shelves, including over 8,500t of fruit and vegetables and the equivalent of 2.5m packs ...
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CEVA Logistics has been appointed by General Motors as its 4PL to manage its ventilator production supply chain for its contract with the US Department of Health and Human Services. CEVA is responsible for delivering hundreds of parts which will be used in the making of the Ventec Life Systems ...
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CLdN Ro-Ro is to start a weekly freight service between Cork and Zeebrugge. It will leave Belgium on Friday to arrive in Cork on Sunday, returning on Tuesday and arriving in Zeebrugge on Thursday.
Port of Cork chief executive Brendan Keating, said: “This announcement by CLdN will greatly support our efforts ...
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United Airlines has converted one of its cargo facilities at George Bush Intercontinental Airport into a food distribution centre to aid the Houston Food Bank's efforts to feed families during the COVID-19 crisis. United team members have also donated more than 159,000lbs of food to food banks, hospitals and other ...
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DP World has launched new platforms to enable forwarders to book shipments of cargo from and to anywhere in the world, by sea, land and air. Following the acquisition of SeaRates.com, LandRates.com and AirRates.com. DP World has also created a Digital Freight Alliance, an online association that brings freight forwarders ...
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has called for a coordinated approach in lifting containment on cross-border transport in the European Union. It says that a lack of coordination by member states has been a fundamental difficulty in setting up and managing restrictions and border control so far.
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South America airline Latam has increased freighter flights to Europe and the US to offset the reduction in belly cargo capacity caused by the reduction in passenger flights due to the COVID-19 crisis. Chile-based Latam operates 10 Boeing 767-300Fs and four 777Fs. It will add a seventh weekly flight to ...
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