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Budapest Airport (BUD) processed a record total of 13,313 tonnes of airfreight last month, its largest figure ever for the month of October. The figure, which represents both trucked and flown freight, is a 22.9% increase over October 2017.
The period from January 2018 to October 2018 saw a 16.3% year-on-year increase in air cargo a total of 120,603 tonnes and, by mid-November, the figures for 2018 have already overtaken the ...
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Director of Leeds-based forwarder, Tudor International Freight, Adam Johnson, has welcomed the Brexit deal between UK and EU negotiators. He says that the fact that the document would, if finally approved, provide much-needed certainty about future trading arrangements after over two years of considerable doubt.
He said ratification would also confirm ...
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Freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com has acquired Channel 40, which connects freight owners with transport operators, and relaunched it as Freightlancer.
Channel 40 was started in 2016 by mining executive Tom Cavanagh, who is also chief executive of EMS Group, one of Australia’s largest underground mining and tunnelling service providers.
It primarily ...
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Many American Airlines Cargo employees took it on themselves to find ways they could help their local communities after Hurricane Michael wreaked havoc in and around Florida in early October.
Recently, the carrier’s Miami team partnered with the American Red Cross to compile packages for those who lost everything in the ...
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Ro ro cargo specialist SCH has secured a contract to discharge Ford vehicles arriving at the port of Liverpool from the US and Europe. The shipments from the US and Europe are carried on ACL con-ro ships, with predicted volumes of over 25,000 vehicles per annum.
SCH, which already handles 200,000 ...
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Following its earlier announcement of a merger with Sweden's Terminus Spedition, Greencarrier Freight Services Denmark says it will merge with Hecksher Linieagenturer on 1 January and that, from 1 April 2019, the latter’s offices outside Denmark merge with those of Greencarrier’s Nordic Consolidators company.
In a statement, Greencarrier said that the ...
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The UK Major Ports Group (UKMPG) has launched a five-point plan to build growth in the sector.
It calls for policies that will ensure the UK has a ports sector than can continue to thrive in a changing world; promote; create a positive planning and development framework; deliver a balanced environmental ...
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North-east Scottish port Montrose has received £5.4 million from Royal Bank of Scotland to support its master plan redevelopment. The energy and general cargo hub, which has already received £1.5million in Scottish Government investment, says the funding will help it increase the maximum size of berthed vessels from 12,000 to ...
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German-owned automotive forwarding firm Mosolf Group has opened a technical and logistics centre close to Paris-Vatry airport in north-eastern France.
The new facility, located at the ZAC business park situated in Bussy-Lettrée en Champagne, is situated on the Antwerp/Barcelona and Paris/Stuttgart axes.
The 10 hectare site will provide storage for up to ...
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US digi-forwarder comes to Europe
US based digital forwarder ExFreight Zeta has extended its services to Europe, including the UK. It is offering door-to-door and door-to-port services from the Eurozone to over 150 countries with instant pricing and booking on FCL and LCL ocean and air freight. It is focusing on ...
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