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UK investment has topped pre-Pandemic levels at over £1 billion with many cargo sectors returning to growth, says the British Ports Association.Continued depressed demand for fuel is masking a strong recovery across multiple cargo segments, it says, swelled by several big projects such as the £300m fourth berth at DP World's London Gateway. Significant investment in modernising port machinery, pilot vessels and buildings adds at least another £75m to the ...
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Transport for the North (TfN) is hosting a free webinar on a Freight & Logistics Strategy for the region on 12 January.
Industry experts will talk about the importance of the efficient movement of goods, and the urgent need for decarbonisation and at how ensuring the right multimodal networks are in ...
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European aircraft manufacturer Airbus says it has firmed up an order for four A350F freighter aircraft with shipping line and logistics operator CMA CGM Group. The order will bring CMA CGM’s total Airbus fleet to nine aircraft, including four A330-200F and one A330-200 passenger to freighter conversion
The A350F offers a ...
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The Abu Dhabi-led HOPE Consortium has delivered over 210 million Covid vaccine doses to over 60 countries.
It says it has created one of the world’s largest end-to-end pharma supply chains capable of delivering millions of vaccines to two-thirds of the global population. Spearheaded by Abu Dhabi’s Department of Health, the ...
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Hondura’s new airport, Palmerola International, has handled its first scheduled flights. On December 11, the airport greeted Spirit Airlines as the first scheduled carrier with daily flights from Houston and four weekly flights from Miami. United Airlines, American Airlines, Copa Airlines and Avianca are also now operating regular flights. Destinations ...
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ACS volunteers helped keep Covid test kit supplies flowing earlier this month. Two flights arriving at Birmingham Airport with more than two million kits on board were unable to be offloaded by the local handling agent alone so the charter broker sent a team of ten people from its Surbiton ...
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The transhipment of containers went through a dip due to the Covid-19 outbreak but, from autumn 2020 onwards, Rotterdam has seen a rapid recovery with 7.8% growth in the first nine months of 2021 on the back of a surge in consumer spending is booming and a recovering economy, with ...
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Airfreight coldchain specialist Envirotainer is calling for continued collaboration between pharmaceutical firms and the logistics industry as it marked the billionth Covid vaccine carried in its fleet of over 6,500 temperature-controlled air cargo containers.
With much of Europe introducing new lockdowns in the face of the Omicron surge, the whole sector ...
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Saudi Arabian Airlines’ SAL Saudi Logistics Services arm has opened an extension of its Jeddah Station. The new extension spans over 656,6000sq ft (61,000sq m) for medical and food cold chain services, dangerous cargo and valuable cargo. The extension is expected to increase SAL’s annual cargo capacity in Jeddah to ...
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Cherbourg Port handled its 100,000th trailer travelling between Ireland and France on 22 December. The port has multiplied its roll-on/roll-off traffic by three in a year as Brexit has made the route more competitive compared to the UK landbridge, with Stena Line, Irish Ferries and Brittany Ferries operating services to ...
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