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Electric car maker goes global thanks to Turkish Cargo

Turkish Cargo has signed a deal to become the logistics solutions partner of Togg (Turkey's Automobile Joint Venture Group), and has moved the country’s first electric automobile to the CES tech expo in Las Vegas. Togg will exhibit for the first time at CES expo of Las Vegas on 5-8 January. Turkish Cargo used special equipment to transport the cargo along with its sensitive cargo warehouses. Turkish Airlines chairman, Ilker Aycı said: ... [+]

Manchester-Bangladesh flights restart

Direct flights between Bangladesh and Manchester Airport restarted on 28 December. Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate twice a week services to Dhaka and Sylhet until 28 March with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. [+]

Brexit does not mean the end of UK/Ireland trade, says Woodland

Trade links between the UK and Ireland can be stronger than ever with effective customs arrangements, argues freight forwarder Woodland Group in a new paper published on 21 December. It says that when the new Brexit trade agreement came into force earlier this year, data from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) ... [+]

MSC makes offer for Bolloré Africa

The Bolloré Group has received an offer from the MSC Group to acquire 100% of Bolloré Africa Logistics, comprising all of the Bolloré Group’s transport and logistics activities for €5.7 billion. It has granted MSC until 31 March 2022 to enable it to carry out additional due diligence checks and to ... [+]

Saudia Cargo sponsors female rally pioneer

Saudia Cargo has signed a sponsorship agreement with the Kingdom’s first female accredited rally driver, Mashael AlObaidan – little more than four years after the country joined the rest of the world in allowing women to drive on public roads. The 33-year-old driver will take part in Rally Dakar in 2022, ... [+]

Glimmer of hope on port congestion

Port congestion is still affecting North America and Europe in the run-up to the holiday season but container dwell times are improving slightly and the situation is improving somewhat in Felixstowe, says supply chain visibility specialist, Project44. However, congestion is still serious in Rotterdam, in Savannah, one of the most important ... [+]

Who can foretell future Irish Sea demand?

Stena Line has redeployed its larger Stena Foreteller ship to the Belfast-Birkenhead (Liverpool) route, adding 13% more freight capacity. Freight routes between Britain and Ireland have witnessed a decline of up to 25% whilst trade routes into Northern Ireland from Britain have seen month on month increases caused in the main ... [+]

Cleaning up in Austria and Germany

Austrian transport and logistics provider Gebrüder Weiss has been delivering detergents and cleaning agents manufactured in Kruševac, Serbia by rail to destinations along the Vienna-Düsseldorf line for consumer products company Henkel. It circumvents the current shortage of truck capacity and cuts emissions by up to 70% while matching the delivery ... [+]

Imperial keeps up the good work

Imperial Logistics International has continued its long-established tradition of supporting worthy causes at Christmas, with donations to three charities. They are the child- and youth hospice Malteser Hospizzentrum St. Raphael, in Duisburg, the Hauner Verein association that supports the Dr von Haunerschen Children’s hospital in Munich  and the Neuenkirchen-Vörden-based Clemens-August-Jugendklinik, ... [+]

Forward Solutions looks to a user friendly 2022

Forward Solutions - the Freight Software Group - says its new user interface will be rolled out in early 2022, and will make its software more intuitive and easier to use. Managing director Richard Litchfield said the transport tech company has spent the year refining its products and becoming much ... [+]

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