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STEF completes Langdon purchase

STEF Group has completed its acquisition of UK-based Langdon Group from Nagel-Group. Langdon Group is a major player in imports and exports of chilled and frozen food between the UK and continental Europe with 1,400 and eight sites, delivering to 20,000 locations throughout Great Britain. The acquisition gives STEF its eighth country of operation in Europe and allows Nagel-Group to concentrate its resources on Europe, while maintaining a strong partner ... [+]

Unifeeder launches Rotterdam/Ireland route

Shortsea container operator Unifeeder has launched a new service connecting Rotterdam with Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. As well as offering enhanced carrying capacity, it brings all-new routes between Rotterdam and key ports in Ireland. The service also calls in Southampton. [+]

Maritime Transport adds four to management team

Maritime Transport has made four appointments to its senior management. Michael Carr joins as general manager – property, and Craig Moore as general manager – commercial. Chris Lewis rejoins Maritime’s board of management as deputy chairman alongside newly-appointed fleet sales director, Matt Heath.   With nearly forty years’ experience in the ports, ... [+]

Qatar flies freighters to Munich

Qatar Airways is operating regular flights to and from Munich with a cargo version of its Boeing 777. The routing starts in Bangalore, India through Qatar's capital Doha to Munich and then on to Chicago and with a return flight in the opposite rotation.  Qatar is operating the service on ... [+]

SEKO takes the direct approach to E-commerce

SEKO Logistics is launching a new Ecommerce business unit to handle international cross border shipping, global fulfilment, heavyweight last mile, returns and re-commerce. The specialist forwarder says the move reflects the rise of direct to consumer (DTC) brands selling through their own channels using platforms such as Shopify. SEKO has pre-built ... [+]

China rail gets back on track

Davies Turner says its Express China rail freight service to the UK is getting back on track after a difficult 2021, and is achieving a 29-day transit time from departure in Wuhan to arrival at UK depots. Soaring demand created by the extreme air and ocean freight difficulties contributed to operational ... [+]

U-Freight delivers power to the people

The U-Freight Group is playing a key role in making sure that non-resident Filipinos can have their say in their country’s presidential and vice-presidential elections on 9 May. Through its long-standing partner in the country, the Hong Kong-based forwarder will be distributing all the equipment, peripherals, documentation and other paraphernalia around ... [+]

Back where they belong – with a little help from DHL

DHL Global Forwarding has helped the Warriors of Wildlife charity take a group of lions and tigers to a better life in South Africa. The lions Hercules, Cher, Khaya, Ilana and Arslan – the latter named by the forwarder’s Turkish Airfreight team - as well as tiger Kisa, were being ... [+]

ECS Group joins forces with cargo tech firm

GSSA ECS Group’s in-house solution developer, Cargo Digital Factory, is to join forces with French software and data-science company, Wiremind Cargo to launch a new CargoTech venture. The new business unit will collaborate to digitalise as many air cargo processes as possible. It will design digital solutions to expand the ... [+]

Europa Road to add three sites

Europa Worldwide Group’s Europa Road arm is expanding its local sales branches from 13 to 16 with new sites Cambridge, Liverpool and Cardiff. Due to open on 1 May, they are the first new branches since Europa opened in Belfast three years ago. Europa Road is already increasing the head ... [+]

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