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Delft-based Holland Container Innovations (HCI) has won a €2.5 million grant from the European Horizon 2020 programme for the 4Fold foldable containers it is developing.
The 4Fold container can be reduced to a quarter of its normal size when empty and is designed to reduce the €25 billion a year spent on the transport of empty boxes and the resultant CO2 emissions.
The idea was conceived by the Delft University of Technology ...
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The British International Freight Association is urging freight forwarders not to be complacent about new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rules, despite a recent IMO circular urging ‘practical and pragmatic' enforcement by authorities in the first three months after 1 July.
BIFA director general Robert Keen, director general said the grace period ...
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The 57-km, SFr12.2 billion Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland was officially opened on 1 June. Currently, the longest rail tunnel in the world, it is expected to greatly ease the passage of freight trains from northern Europe to Italy, allowing longer and heavier freight trains to be operated by fewer ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has appointed Yngve Ruud as a new board member with global responsibility for the airfreight logistics from 1 October. He succeeds in this function Tim Scharwath who will leave the company next year.
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The G6 container alliance says it will suspend its Loop 6 service between Asia and Europe until further notice to adjust to market demand. Loops 1, 4, 5 and 7 – all of which serve Southampton – will continue to operate.
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Immingham – the town, not the port - is hoping to repeat last year’s feat when it took the top spot in the East Midlands in Bloom event, with the help of Associated British Ports (ABP)
ABP announced that for the third year running, it will be the town’s main sponsor ...
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The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has marked its first anniversary as a corporate member of Transaid by presenting the charity with a cheque for £5,354 at the Association’s annual members’ lunch.
The donation, which was presented by Richard Burnett, the RHA’s CEO, was raised as a result of the company’s new ...
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Duties, border delays and transport costs will make EU-based smaller companies reluctant to trade with the UK following Brexit, says a new report by parcel broker, ParcelHero.
According to Delivering Brexit, 66% of ParcelHero’s customers who regularly ship items to European non-EU countries, such as Switzerland and Norway, say they would ...
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Piracy off the Nigerian coastline is on the rise again, warns global consultancy, Control Risks. Attacks in the first four months of this year are 21% higher than at their peak in 2008 and the frequency of incidents is 119% higher compared with the same period in 2015.
Control Risks says ...
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Emirates has extended its mission to support the United for Wildlife alliance to a familiar Heathrow landmark – the 1/3 scale model of the A380 aircraft that sits on the traffic roundabout at the entrance to the tunnels leading to the main terminals. The animal-themed logo is already carried by ...
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