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FedEx Express says it has surpassed its goal to boost vehicle fuel efficiency by 30% five years early in its its 2016 Global Citizenship Report (GCR) published at the end of March, Its 'Reduce, Replace, Revolutionize' strategy had reduced overall mileage by optimising routes, replaced vehicles with more efficient models and added alternative fuel vehicles to the fleet. The Fuel Sense program had also saved more than $1 billion ...
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A new intermodal rail service from the south of France to the UK has carried its first trailers. The VIIA Britanica service, operated by the logistics arm of the French Railways (SNCF) carried its first unaccompanied units from the port of Calais at 2am on the morning of Wednesday 30 ...
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All-cargo carrier Atlas Air provided the essential lift for The Rolling Stones' historic concert in Havana, Cuba on 25 March. An Atlas Boeing 747-400 freighter carried 97 tons of staging and equipment from Mexico City to Havana, via Miami, on 19 March. It was also the first commercial charter ...
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Stobart Group has signed a deal to lease 47 acres of land from the Ford Motor Company at Speke, Liverpool, adjacent to the car-maker's Merseyside plant and close to the logistics operators existing multimodal and warehousing site at Widnes. An option to buy the land is also included and there ...
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Containerships is launching a direct call at Neva Metal in St. Petersburg to complement the existing call at the port's Moby Dik terminal on Kronstadt Island. The Neva Metal Terminal will be included in the weekly Intra Baltic loop which also calls at Lübeck, Aarhus and Helsinki.
Neva Metal is ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ quick response service sprang into action when a compressor at Russia’s only natural gas liquefaction plant on Sakhalin island needed an urgent repair. An-124-100 and IL-76TD-90VD freighters moved equipment including a 14-tonne capacity heavy-duty multi-wheel trailer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Moscow to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin.
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Improved results in January and February may be merely blips within a downward tren, say the publishers of the Stifel Logistics Confidence Index which reported a renewed fall in March.
China's February trade volume showed significant declines in both imports and exports, with the latter contracting 25.4% year on ...
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AirBridgeCargo Airlines reported a 15% growth in its airfreight volumes in February, transporting over 37,000 tonnes across its global route network in Asia, Europe, North America and Russia - 3% more than the same month last year when demand was itself boosted by US port strikes. Particular growth was reported ...
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IAG Cargo will operate a new three days a week B777-200 service from London Gatwick to Cape Town, South Africa from 24 November. The additional service will run throughout the winter schedule and supplements the three times a week A330-300 Madrid- Johannesburg service, due to start on 1 August and ...
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Following the recent development of the situation in Brussels regarding the bombing incident, we would like to confirm that all of our employees are safe and that the
Cargo operations at Brussels airport have resumed following the recent bomb attack, reports freight forwarder Geodis.n However, due to the backlog, some ...
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