Chris Lewis
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has promoted Pawel Jarza (pictured, right) to policy, compliance and external affairs director.
With 20 years’ of experience in the industry, he has worked for the association as frontier policy manager, and more recently as policy and compliance adviser, air.
In his expanded role, he becomes responsible for much of BIFA’s external lobbying and representation work with Government departments and other key stakeholder groups.
Meanwhile, Robert Windsor ...
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AP Moller-Maersk reported revenue growth of 7.8% to US$13.3bn with EBIT earnings increasing to $1.3bn from $177m a year ago. The results, while down as expected, were a good start to the year and were driven by solid profitability in Ocean, operational improvements in Logistics & Services and higher volumes ...
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While the sudden closure of London Heathrow following an electrical substation fire on 20 March had a profound temporary impact on UK supply chains, the episode demonstrates the main airfreight hub’s resilience says Europa Air and Sea.
The Europa Group’s forwarding arm says that the airport returned to normal operations within ...
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Oman’s Ministry of Transport has awarded a contract to Kale Logistics Solutions and its local partner Novel Muscat to develop a National Port Community System in Oman. The multimodal cargo platform will digitalise and streamline operations across ports, airports, land ports and free zones.
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Developer Panattoni has acquired a site at Horizon 120 Business Park in Braintree, Essex. Panattoni Park Braintree will include 575,000sq ft of industrial and logistics space, just over 15 minutes from London Stansted Airport and under an hour from the M25, Port of Felixstowe, and London Gateway.
Construction is already underway on Phase 1, which comprises ...
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Pharma.Aero and TIACA (The International Air Cargo Association) have set up a Food and Farm for Health project to underscore the value and role of air cargo in healthcare access and economic development in low- and middle-income countries.
Developed in collaboration with the Cool Chain Association and the Humanitarian Logistics Association, ...
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DHL Supply Chain has acquired US-based e-commerce logistics provider IDS Fulfillment.
It adds over 1.3 million square feet of multi-customer warehouse and distribution space and includes facilities in Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and Plainfield, Ind., where the company is headquartered.
In January, DHL acquired Inmar’s reverse logistics business, making it the ...
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BIFA and the Road Haulage Association (RHA) are inviting their members to add their names to an open letter to be sent to the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper asking her to speed up improvements to the Clandestine Entrant Civil Penalty Scheme.
International road freight operators are invited to sign up to ...
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The Port of Antwerp-Bruges and its subsidiary NxtPort, in collaboration with The Way Forward and Belgian Customs have introduced an Inbound Release Platform (IRP) to help implement new European legislation for inbound cargo.
To comply with European requirements, Belgian Customs must fully transition to the new PN/TS system for the digital ...
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AAL Shipping (AAL) transported three fully assembled Konecranes port cranes from Schiedam and Westdorpe, Netherlands, to ports in Mexico and Chile on an ‘open hatch’ sailing on its Super B-Class vessel, AAL Hamburg - a first for this vessel type.
The Gottwald ESP 10 mobile harbour container cranes are among the ...
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