Chris Lewis
French-owned forwarding and logistics specialist Geodis has appointed Laura Ritchey as president and chief executive of its Americas region. She will also serve on the group’s executive board.
Ritchey will oversee the management and growth of the region’s multiple business units across North and South America, including contract logistics, freight forwarding and transportation, leading a team of nearly 20,000 in the US, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Brazil.
She brings ...
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Swiss-based Militzer & Münch Group has opened a new country unit in Singapore to act as a regional coordination centre for cross-border logistics in Southeast Asia. It will offer the forwarder’s entire range of M&M services including land transport, air and sea freight, project logistics, and customs services. M&M also ...
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Avia Solutions Group, the world's largest Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance, and Insurance (ACMI) provider, has partnered with DHL Express to reduce Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions through the carrier’s GoGreen Plus service.
Through the GoGreen Plus Basic Model, Avia Solutions Group has already reduced GHG emissions by 12.61% associated with DHL shipments, ...
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Deugro’s new Rotra Futura heavylift vessel, delivered in April, has officially started operations moving wind turbine blades from Denmark to the US. The project supply vessel, specifically designed to handle larger and heavier offshore wind turbine components, collected the 108-meter-long blades at the Port of Aalborg, Denmark.
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Humber Freeport has appointed Richard Beason as its new head of investment. He was previously economic development manager for Selby District Council, and subsequently North Yorkshire Council, for the past four years. He previously worked for Birmingham City University, as its growth hub account manager, and East Midlands Chamber of ...
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Yulia Celetaria is leading a new entity, Healthc’Air to manage temperature-sensitive pharma airfreight. It has two major launch clients, ECS Group and Global GSA and says it has attracted the interest of over a dozen airlines at various stages of developing their pharma product offering.
Healthc’Air offers a multi-tiered approach - ...
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Europa Group’s Warehouse arm has celebrated five years since it opened its flagship 3PL facility in Corby.
The site was inaugurated in the grip of the Covid pandemic in June 2020, but that did not prevent the company from opening the £60million facility ahead of schedule, transforming a former brownfield site ...
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Davies Turner has signed a partnership deal with Manitoulin Global Forwarding. The two companies say that Canada’s ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership could lead to a surge in trade between the UK and Canada. It will enable seamless handling of LCL and FCL shipments between ...
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Global Logistics Network (GLN) has launched a payment solution built in partnership with CargoAi. Powered by CargoWALLET technology its enables secure, real-time payments in over 150 countries and 47 currencies.GLN members can send or receive payments from other network members—or any freight partner—regardless of whether the recipient has a GLN ...
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Testing, inspection and certification company SGS has secured a three-year contract to operate Tanzania’s pre-shipment verification of conformity programme. Under the renewed contract, SGS will provide services including document verification, physical inspections and laboratory testing through its global network to prevent import of substandard goods and ensuring regulated products meet ...
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