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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is promising a significant presence at the Multimodal show, which starts tomorrow (Tuesday 18 June). Staff from its secretariat as well as its regional consultants will all be on hand at its booth at the event.
The trade association for UK freight forwarding and logistics companies will be using the event to set out some of the important work that it is carrying out on ...
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Forth Port’s has confirmed an investment in five new Kalmar straddle carriers for its port of Grangemouth to be delivered in early 2020, part of an 11-strong-order that has already seen six of the machines delivered to its London Container Terminal (LCT) this week.
Three of the six new straddles for ...
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La Poste and Swiss Post international mail organization Asendia has opened a fulfilment centre, at Singapore Changi Airport. Based in the city state’s Free Trade Zone (FTZ), it allows customers to manage their cross-border e-commerce fulfilment operations from Singapore, regardless of where their parent company is based, particularly useful for ...
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The Port of Tyne has appointed Simon Brett as commercial director port services. He joins from Associated British Ports (ABP) where he was most recently head of projects on the Humber.
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Kerry Logistics Network has signed a joint venture with Spain’s national postal service Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos to provide e-commerce solutions from China to worldwide destinations. An automatic sorting centre will be set up in Southern China and will have a capacity of 500,000 parcels per day when ...
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Peli BioThermal has officially opened its new network station and service centre in Dublin for its reusable Crēdo on Demand temperature controlled equipment.
Located in Harristown, next to Dublin Airport the facility is ideally located to serve the pharma industry in Ireland, and is part of a plan to open over ...
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The Freight Transport Association Ireland (FTAI) has called on the Irish government to provide urgent funding and support for the country’s logistics operators to reverse the current skills shortage ahead of Brexit.
The alternative, says general manager, Aidan Flynn, could be a serious impact on domestic and international business:
With Ireland’s workforce ...
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Bristol Port has completed a a £9 million upgrade of its container terminals, including two new gantry cranes. Bristol operates two facilities - Portbury handles larger vessels including the weekly MSC feeder from Antwerp while Avonmouth serves smaller vessels needing rapid turnaround time for smaller volumes.
Carriers calling at the port ...
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BG Freight Line, in partnership with Maersk, is starting a new weekly Waterford-Rotterdam feeder service. It is expected to appeal especially to Irish agri-food exporters and also to customers shipping containers to/from Africa, Asia and the Americas via Rotterdam.
Port of Waterford chief executive, Frank Ronan, said: “Reflecting Ireland’s economic growth, ...
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The Scottish Government is to offer Glasgow Prestwick Airport and return it to the private sector.
The airport, to the south-west of Glasgow, was taken into public ownership in November 2013. It handles regular all-cargo aircraft flights and also houses a Border Inspection Post for large animals.
Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure ...
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