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Air Canada Cargo is to expand its freighter network, with flights from Toronto to Halifax starting April 19 and services from Toronto to Frankfurt, Cologne, Istanbul, Madrid and St. John’s, from in May. It will follow the entry into service of the carrier’s second Boeing 767-300ER freighter aircraft.
The carrier put its first dedicated Boeing 767-300ER freighter aircraft into service on 9 December. The initial plan was to operate to Frankfurt ...
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Many local communities are rallying around to donate aid to Ukrainian refugees. While international transport seems to be organised fairly well through official charities, how are the donations getting to the correct distribution hubs in the UK?
During March, Simon Morley, a director of Ital Transport – a sister company to ...
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SWISS celebrated its 20th anniversary, marking its first-ever flight from Basel to Zurich on 31 March 2002. The Airline of Switzerland was formed from Crossair and of Swissair’s flight operations, after the former carriers went out of business in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
The carrier says that its early ...
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International freight transport insurer TT Club has produced a series of animated videos highlighting the risks of pests taking unwelcomed rides in cargo. The four clips feature how the route taken by a road transport vehicle can affect cleanliness, as well as how mud and vegetation can harbour invasive pests, ...
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Palletways Iberia has moved two of its Hubs to larger facilities to increase capacity.
It has relocated its Central Hub on the Iberian Peninsula to a 40,000sq m facility in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, close to local motorways. The building has been constructed with sustainability in mind with more than 40,000sq ...
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FedEx Express is to test Elroy Air’s Chaparral autonomous air cargo system in its ‘middle-mile’ logistics operations, moving shipments between sorting sites from next year. California Bay-based Elroy Air is building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system in the US.
Elroy Air unveiled its Chaparral ...
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The UK and Scottish governments have published a prospectus for potential bidders for Green Freeports, the local version of freeports.
Consortiums will have 12 weeks from 25 March to assess it and prepare their bids, which will be assessed by officials from the UK and Scottish governments, with ministers having an ...
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The Transport Secretary said on 30 March that he would he will bring forward new legislation to ban ferries that do not pay their workers the National Minimum Wage (NMW) from UK ports, following P&O Ferries’ summary sacking of 800 workers.
Grant Shapps said that all ferry staff working in and ...
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Freight forwarder Kuehne+Nagel chartered a Ukrainian Antonov An-124 freighter to fly 111 tonnes of aid from Sharjah airport to the aircraft’s home country, via Poland, on 29 March. The shipment was sourced from UNICEF's warehouse in Dubai and landed in Poland the same evening for trucking to Ukraine. Kuehne+Nagel International ...
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ABP’s Port of Southampton is making 30 acres of land available for development. It the 22-acre Redbridge site – which benefits from Freeport status - and also an eight-acre site on Marchwood Industrial Park. The sites are part of a national initiative by ABP to release more than 1,000 acres ...
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