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Arvato Supply Chain Solutions is taking on a 57,000sq m logistics centre at Hannover-Messe to handle the online business for a sporting goods manufacturer and a customer from the beauty and cosmetics industry. It will handle all e-commerce logistics for the B2C business of both customers, including warehousing, order picking, packaging, distribution and returns management.
Arvato already operates a 60,000sq m logistics and distribution centre at the same location, mainly to ...
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Swedish ferry company Stena Line has entered the Finnish market with a new daily route from Hanko to Nynäshamn. The new route starts on 1 February 2022 and will be served by the Urd three times per week. The second vessel, Stena Gothica, will join the route on 1 May ...
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With many importers unprepared for changes to import customs rules on 1 January there is no better time to use the services of a freight forwarder, says the British International Freight Association.
BIFA director general Robert Keen, says that he was a little surprised to read that research by the Federation ...
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Europa Worldwide Group’s full load arm, Continental Cargo Carriers (CCC), is spending €4.2m on 156 new trailers to expand its fleet by 42% - the biggest single investment since the company was acquired in 2018.
CCC currently operates 270 trailers from its warehouse bases in Dartford and Belgium but more are ...
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IAG Cargo says it will be creating more than 500 new roles over the next 12 months in the biggest recruitment drive in its history.
The business has welcomed many new customers since the start of 2021 and has seen growing demand for some of its specialist products such as Constant ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) lit up eight of its buildings to mark the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December.
Ayr, Barrow-in-Furness, Cardiff, Grimsby, Hull, Immingham, King’s Lynn, Southampton and Troon all took part in the annual PurpleLightUp day, seven of them for the first time.
PurpleLightUp celebrates the ...
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Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail-IR) has launched a Rail Freight 2040 Strategy to revitalise the market for freight and increase the mode’s share from its current low base.
Rail Freight 2040 envisages a five-fold increase in the number of rail freight services, to over 100 a week across the network.
IR would seek ...
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Australian forwarder Navia has bought Perth-based Keys Freight and Logistics. Navia now has locations in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, as well as Auckland, Chicago, Penang and Budapest. Keys Freight and Logistics was founded in 2015 and specialises in the Western Australian market, offering logistics, customs clearance, warehousing and inter-state ...
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Under-Secretary of State for Transport Baroness Vere of Norbiton officially opened the UK’s newest truckstop in Ashford on 3 December.Ashford International Truckstop, which has been developed by GSE Building and Civil Engineering, is located at Waterbrook Park, near (J10/10A) of the M20 offering space for up to 660 trucks, which ...
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The International Air Transport Association, the International Chamber of Shipping, the International Road Transport Union and the International Transport Workers’ Federation, have jointly called for governments to not reimpose border restrictions on transport workers as a “knee-jerk reaction” to the Omicron variant of the Covid virus.
They say that a week ...
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