Chris Lewis
Forth Ports has signed an agreement with GeoPura to produce green hydrogen at the Port of Tilbury starting this year. The plant will make it among the first major British ports to host commercial-scale hydrogen production for heavy industrial use.
Enabled by £2m of Thames Freeport seed capital, the project will support the decarbonisation of port operations and establish Tilbury as a testbed for low-carbon fuel.
Under a ten-year agreement, with an ...
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DFDS is to add a third vessel to its Rosslare-Dunkirk route and offer two additional weekly roundtrips, bringing the total to seven, from September. The third vessel will join Athena and Victoria Seaways, which already operate on the route. The service was launched in 2021 in the wake of Brexit, ...
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The Port of Gothenburg is to acquire a large area of land for long-term for SEK 684 million, subject to approval by the municipal council.
It is expected to create 210,000sq m of new terminal space. and continues the port’s westward expansion since the 1970s. Nearby, construction is currently underway on ...
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Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss has launched the fifth edition of its GWcycles international cycling campaign. The goal: to collectively cover a million kilometers – and in doing so, remove up to ten tons of plastic waste from rivers and coastal regions.
For every kilometer cycled, Gebrüder Weiss funds the collection and ...
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The World Customs Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and HMRC have announced phase five of the Accelerate Trade Facilitation Programme. The 11-year old partnership aims to facilitate the cross-border movement of goods and enhance public-private collaboration. The UK has allocated £1.85 million to extend the programme ...
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Royal Air Maroc Cargo is extending its temperature-controlled facilities at Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport. On completion, there will be three import and two export chambers with a combined area of 590sq m to for fresh produce, flowers and The will include import chambers at 2–8°C; 15–25°C and frozen and ...
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UK/US parcels specialist Mark 3 International has appointed Chris Stevens as Asia business development executive. He has held senior positions at Swiss Post International and Bpost International, focusing on global cross-border ecommerce and in his new role will provide expert advice on digital solutions for cross-border shipping, data capture and ...
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DHL Global Forwarding is to launch weekly 777 freighter flights between Shanghai and Leipzig and Liège and Hong Kong with the start of the summer aviation schedule. The Liège-Hong Kong service will have a stopover in Tel Aviv and may also accommodate limited cargo loading or offloading when required.
Other plans ...
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Röhlig Logistics has extended its healthcare and life science GDP WeCare programme with certification of its branches in Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne and extending its network to 13 countries.
The programme has been developed in alignment with international Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines, including WHO and EU regulations. Going beyond standard ...
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Lufthansa adds Asia-LA freighter
Lufthansa will add an extra transpacific freighter service from Ho Chi Minh City via Shanghai to Los Angeles in its summer schedule. The carrier says it is currently the only operator offering main deck capacity between Vietnam to China.
From May, it will also reintroduce Delhi to its ...
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