Chris Lewis
Thames Freeport has announced the winners of its Connectivity Lab programme, following a Demo Day held on 26 March. The programme, part of the Freeport’s strategy to promote globally-competitive industrial sectors and improve productivity, brings together businesses, high-growth scale-ups and public sector partners to address real-world challenges. Thames Freeport’s partners, Port of Tilbury, DP World London Gateway and Ford Dagenham, selected the winning technologies, which have been piloted across their sites.
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has appointed Richard Catt as its regional representative for South East England, a new post created to reduce the area covered by Paul Newman, who will now focus on East Anglia and East London.
Already a member of BIFA’s Council and its Policy Group, Richard ...
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Swire Shipping has opened a branch office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A new Malaysia team will be led by Koon Yan Tan, formerly head of Swire Shipping Singapore Agency, who assumes the expanded role of Head of Singapore and Malaysia Agencies.
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Japan’s K Line has signed an agreement for the long-term procurement of carbon-neutral bio-LNG fuel (liquefied bio methane, LBM) and it has started to use the fuel in its car carriers.
The agreement is expected to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by around 60,800 tons per year.
Bio-LNG fuel is an ...
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Logistics UK is calling for a renewed focus on the delivery of the plan for freight promised in the government’s integrated transport strategy. It said the situation in the Middle East has put transport networks and supply chains under the spotlight as never before, and a comprehensive integrated transport strategy ...
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Customs Support Group is warning importers that they could incur additional costs as a result of THE EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which came into operation on 1 January. It has already led to significant challenges for importers of iron, steel, aluminium, cement and fertilisers.
Companies importing more than 50 ...
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The resilience of the global air freight market is being tested once again as conflict in the Middle East places a further question mark against already low growth expectations for 2026, says industry analyst Xeneta. However, lessons from past crises are bringing some short-term stability as shippers, airlines, and forwarders ...
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Cargo crime is escalating across the Benelux region, according to the 2026 Freight Crime Report published by insurer TT Club and supply chain risk adviser BSI Consulting, in partnership with TVM.
It identified the ports of Antwerp-Bruges and Rotterdam as major hotspots for crime, with highways including the E19, E17, A67 ...
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Ocean Network Express (ONE) has appointed Tomohiro Hosaka as managing director Europe. He was previously director of corporate and innovation for the Europe and Africa region and he succeeds outgoing managing director Takahiro Kikuchi who takes on a new leadership role in Asia.
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With the Operation Brock truck queuing scheme due to come into force on Dover and Folkestone approaches on the M20 this Easter weekend, Logistics UK says that the system epitomises the piecemeal and short-term approach policy makers take to ageing transport infrastructure.
Head of trade policy James Mills called for a ...
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