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Applications for international road haulage permits opened this week. The Freight Transport Association is advising international operators to apply sooner rather than later, in case there is a No Deal Brexit.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ecmt-international-road-haulage-permits
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Haulage and warehouse firm Kinaxia Logistics has acquired Gateshead company, Fresh Freight Group, its 11th recent purchase. Founded by Eamon Quigley, Fresh Freight started by delivering flowers from Holland to the UK and has become one of the leading independent fresh produce hauliers in the North East.
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Europa Road has signed a new partnership with Nuremberg transport and logistics firm, Amm Spedition. It brings Europa’s total number of daily routes between the UK and Germany to nine, along with existing routes to Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, Rothlein, Hannover and Hamburg, plus a daily connection to the central ...
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CEVA is to acquire 100% of CMA CGM Log, the shipping line’s freight management service for $105 million, subject to regulatory approvals and due diligence. It forms part of a new strategic partnership between the two companies in which CMA CGM will itself take a stake of up to a ...
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A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published today (28 November) has warned that there is “a real risk” of the UK’s transport system being unprepared for Brexit on 29 March and that the Department for Transport has been unnecessarily secretive in its planning
It says that risks are increasing “as time runs ...
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With the continued Gilets Jaunes fuel price protests in France, the Freight Transport Association’s European policy manager Sarah Laouadi is advising truck drivers planning to use the Dover-Calais route to be very cautious.
She said: “FTA advises all drivers planning to travel to Calais, France to be very careful: protests against ...
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Kerry Logistics has launched its first rail and road multimodal freight service from Lanzhou, China to Islamabad, Pakistan. The first train departed Lanzhou by block train on 23 October 2018, and travelled 3,300 km to the Kashgar Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Xinjiang for transfer to trucks for the remaining 1,200km to ...
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Equity investor EmergeVest has brought six freight and logistics companies, including Allport Cargo Services and the Palletforce network into EV Cargo, described as the largest privately-owned logistics business in the UK with revenues totalling £850 million. Other companies in the group are supply chain software specialist Adjuno, and logistics firms ...
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The Freight Transport Association stressed that No Deal is not an acceptable option for the Northern Ireland logistics industry at an audience with Theresa May on 22 November at Number 10 Downing Street, t
The meeting, at the request of the Prime Minister, gave Northern Ireland policy lead Seamus Leheny and ...
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Brexit will again take centre-stage at next year’s Multimodal event at Birmingham NEC on June 18-20. The challenges, opportunities, and new technological solutions facing businesses across the supply chain will all be discussed at seminars and workshops at the three-day event.
Other topics including the growing labour crisis, artificial intelligence and ...
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