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GB Railfreight (GBRf) has raised more than £147,000 for its charity partner, Prostate Cancer UK through its GBRf 2021 railtour for train enthusiasts. The four-day charity charter travelled across different parts of the UK rail network on 2-5 September.
Its success was underpinned by the support of the wider rail industry and 50 volunteers from GBRf who gave up their own time to work as train drivers and stewards.
Funds raised will ...
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Bertelsmann’s Arvato Supply Chain Solutions arm has opened a new logistics centre in Parla, around 20 kilometers south of Madrid. The 25,000sq m facility handles all logistics and online fulfilment for a major fashion industry client.
Managing director of Arvato Supply Chain Solutions in Spain, Emilio Juaranz, said: "Spain is a ...
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Xpediator’s Delamode Nidd arm has agreed a new five-year lease for a second 67,000sq ft warehouse in Ripon, North Yorkshire, a short distance from its existing site, bringing the forwarder’s total capacity to 113,000sq ft. It will meet rising demand for storage from existing clients, as well as providing improved ...
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AD Ports Group has signed four strategic agreements and a head of terms agreement with the Aqaba Development Corporation to develop logistics, transport, digital It includes setting up a digital port community system with AD Ports’ digital arm, Maqta Gateway, and agreements to explore the development and modernisation of a ...
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Emirates SkyCargo has flown more than 600 million doses of the Covid 19 vaccine since October 2020, from 35 origins to over 80 destinations. Divisional senior vice president, Nabil Sultan, said that that nearly two thirds of them were headed to destinations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with ...
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Thames Freeport officially opened for business on 15 December, a few weeks after the UK’s first freeport opened for business in Teesside.
Thames Freeport covers a 34 km-wide economic corridor and promises “a world class hub of innovation” that will “put the region at the forefront of the cutting-edge sectors of ...
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Dublin Port Company will increase goods dues on empty containers and trailers from their current 26% to the same level laden units in equal tranches over the five years from 2022 to 2026 under its new pricing strategy which takes effect from 1 April 2022. There will also be an ...
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AP Moller - Maersk has signed an international freight supply chain management partnership with consumer products manufacturer Unilever from 2022. The four-year agreement will see the development and management of Unilever’s International Control Tower Solution which will consolidate execution of its global ocean and air transport, enhancing visibility, increasing efficiency ...
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European forwarders’ organisation Clecat is urging shippers and hauliers to prepare for the introduction if full customs controls into the UK from the end of the year. It points out that from 1 January, customs controls will apply to all goods moving between the EU and GB, along with additional ...
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The UK Government said on 15 December that it would further postpone introduction of post-Brexit border controls on goods moving from the island of Ireland to GB.
Irish traders will be exempt from some new Brexit import requirements from January 2022 as a consequence of the ongoing negotiations around the Northern Ireland protocol
Chief executive of FTAI Ireland, ...
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