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Shoreham Port has set up a Community Support page on its website to direct people to essential services as well as how they can support others in the wider community. . The south coast trust port remains fully operational, with team being considered key workers. The port has also put in place social distancing measures and limits on movement to minimise the risk of any infection restrictions on visitors.
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Talent in Logistics has launched a jobs board in partnership with Smart recruit online to help promote current recruitment opportunities during the COVID-19 crisis. The board is aimed at employers, recruitment agencies and those in the search for current employment opportunities.www.talentinlogistics.co.uk/jobs/.
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Adam Johnson, director of Leeds-based Tudor International Freight, said that the Covid-19 pandemic should prompt the government to request an extension of the UK’s post-Brexit transition period.
The crisis had already led to the second round of negotiations on a future free trade agreement between Britain and the EU, being postponed, ...
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Etihad Cargo said on 26 March that it was introducing a fleet of Boeing 787-10 aircraft as ‘passenger freighters’ to operate 34 weekly flights and to complement its fleet of Boeing 777 full freighters,. Each 787 aircraft will provide capacity for 12 lower deck pallets and four containers, carrying up ...
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The CLECAT European forwarding association has welcomed the European Commission’s speedy release of a guidance document, which aims to ensure that essential transport flows keep moving during the current COVID-19 crisis. CLECAT stresses that continued and uninterrupted air cargo services are of essential strategic importance for the European Union and ...
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APM Terminals in North America and the Virginia Port Authority is offering a COVID-19 critical cargo handling service at its facilities in Port Elizabeth, South Florida Container Terminal, Mobile, Los Angeles, and Lazaro Cardenas (Mexico).
Qualifying shipments include COVID-19 test kits, medical ventilators and respirators, personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitizer, ...
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With airfreight services from China to Europe still in short supply and shipping services dislocated, many operators have been resorting to rail services to get urgently goods from the Far East, particularly urgent medical supplies.
However, one freight forwarder spoken to by FBJ said that some European governments had become aware ...
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Group operations director at Europa Worldwide Group, Dan Cook, said the groupage operator was, in late March continuing to operate three scheduled round trips per day between Como and its 1Hub in Dartford. He commented: “The drivers are therefore consistently on the route, and testament to them, we have had ...
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The Global Shippers Forum (GSF)has criticised the European Commission's decision to extent the EU liner consortia block exemption regulation (BER) until 25 April 2024, but said now was not the right time to mounct a challenge. It said: “After conducting an intensive and well-evidenced campaign against the CBER, GSF is ...
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Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has achieved certification under IATA CEIV Live Animals, becoming one of the very first companies to have achieved all three CEIV standards.
IATA CEIV Live Animals is a voluntary programme designed to improve competency, infrastructure and equipment, quality management and training for the handling ...
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