Chris Lewis
Spanish airline Air Europa has joined the Freightos booking and payment platform. It adds the carrier’s Spain-Latin America routes, along with 15 domestic destinations within Spain and 40 international routes across Europe, North America, and Latin America. Initial digital booking capabilities will focus on the Spanish export routes–connecting Madrid with Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia with Air Europa’s global network–and then add key international origins in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, ...
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Kuehne+Nagel has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese car maker Changan Automobile to develop aftermarket logistics for electric vehicles in Europe, including the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France. The Chinese brand will draw on the forwarder’s expertise in spare part logistics, especially through its 22,000sq m ...
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Scan Global Logistics has opened its first Turkish office, in Istanbul, managed by Oğuzhan Aydın. It will offer air, ocean, and road freight services and in-house customs clearance and will have a small cross-docking facility. Offices in Bursa, Izmir and Mersin will be added later in the year.
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Southampton-headquartered logistics company Peters & May has expanded its freight forwarding services to the US. Operating from its Fort Lauderdale office in Florida, the company aims to enhance its service offering for freight solutions in the US market and beyond.
Founded over 50 years ago, the company originally has its roots ...
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Lufthansa Group’s high-speed logistics arm, Time:matters, has opened a branch near Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport. It will be led by regional director Western Europe Pieter-Jaap Zijlstra and staffed with a dedicated Country Manager France, as well as teams for sales, operations, customer service, and business development.
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Bernardo Nunes has joined the board of air broker Chapman Freeborn, following his appointment as chief operating officer in November. He will continue to serve in his current role, leading global operations across the Chapman Freeborn group, including Magma Aviation, Intradco Global, On Board Courier (OBC) and the Arcus Air ...
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Emirates Skycargo has launched an Emirates Courier Express end-to-end delivery service. It aims to break away from traditional hub-and-spoke models, with packages making multiple stops before arriving at destination and instead travelling from origin to destination directly, like passengers. The carrier says that this significantly reduces time in transit and ...
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Yesterday, we ran a story about parcel delivery firm Evri, the UK’s largest parcel delivery firm’s robot delivery dogs.
Now, we can reveal that, despite the 1 April dateline, it wasn’t an April Fool.
In a UK first, the robot version of man’s best friend will work in partnership with a courier ...
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Stena Line has developed a new concept vessel, the Futuro, which it says could reduce energy usage by 20% or more.
The 240-meter-long ro ro ship would carry semi-trailers and cars and would have an optimised hull and superstructure design to achieve the most efficient use of cargo space possible. Low ...
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Peel Ports has started a £10 million investment programme at its port of Heysham, chief operating officer, David Huck revealed in an interview with FBJ. The work will include reconfiguring the yard area to increase capacity by 20%, putting in new haulage gates and introducing a new terminal operating system.
David ...
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