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The International Federation of Freight-Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) have released the electronic FIATA Multimodal Bill of Lading (eFBL) data standard. It allows the exchange of bill of lading data in a standardised way, facilitating interoperability between all modes of transport and industry stakeholders.
It is being offered as open source for all software providers and industry stakeholders to implement. FIATA expects its standard ...
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A Ukraine correspondent of UK rail expert Tony Berkeley has sent these pictures of damage to the Ukraine rail system at the Kupiansk border station between Kharkov and Russia. Shells have completely destroyed freight wagons, crumpling them a paper. Shrapnel has also sliced through thick steel sheet and even through ...
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Research by MDS Transmodal (MDST), commissioned by Global Shippers Forum (GSF), has found that global ports lost over a third of their expected container capacity during 2021.
It led to delays and disruption for shippers and harmed the economies of some smaller developing nations, said the report.
Capacity was lost either due ...
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TTS (Shipping) has put a new vessel, the Humber Runner, into service on its timber carrying service from the Baltic Sea into Goole, Hull and Immingham. Newly purchased by TTS’s new parent company, Navalis, Humber Runner is an ice-class 1A vessel suitable when sailing from Riga in the Baltic in ...
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The UK Major Ports Group, the UK Chamber of Shipping and British Ports Association have produced an interactive map of Border Control Posts and Inland Border Facilities across the UK. In July, the frequently delayed changes to UK border controls for imported goods form the EU come in effect. It ...
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Import volumes into Russia increased just before the invasion during the week of 16-22 February with 52% of shippers increasing load volumes, says , says visibility firm FourKites. It appears that shippers may have been expediting shipments into Russia in anticipation of a conflict as troops massed at the border, it says.
Since the ...
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PD Ports has now relaunched its Teesport Explorers programme as part of a week of International Women’s Day celebrations. First trialled pre-pandemic in 2019, it aims to give primary school children their first glimpse of potential future careers with a trip around the port. It will now be rolled out ...
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Air Canada has joined forces with disaster logistics organisation Airlink, relief organization Project C.U.R.E and freight forwarder Flexport to send hospital beds, humanitarian and medical supplies to Ukrainian Refugees in Poland.
The cargo was loaded on board an Air Canada Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner on 9 March, along with . medical and ...
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The Georgia Ports Authority is planning to upgrade its Brunswick facility including a fourth berth at Colonel’s Island Terminal, 85 additional acres for auto processing and 360,000sq ft of new warehousing. It will boost the port’s annual capacity to 1.4 million vehicles. Brunswick is the US’s second busiest hub for ...
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) is calling for urgent action to deal with rising commercial road transport fuel prices. It is calling for urgent action to cap fuel prices for commercial road transport and reduce or rebate taxes and excise on fuel for commercial operators.
Global oil prices have reached ...
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