Chris Lewis
The Department for Transport is holding a one hour webinar on the Freight Innovation Fund at 11am on Tuesday 4 February. Introduced in 2022, FIF offers grant funding to small and medium sized companies to undertake trials of new technology in an operational and his disbursed £7m over three years. DfT is currently planning on the basis that FIF will be extended to include the 2025/26 financial year.
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Groupage operatorTransmec Group has increased its UK warehousing with an extension to its Worcester hub.
It increases capacity from 110,000 to 146,000 sq ft and three sides of the warehouse have been extended with the new areas used for both racking and floor storage.
The project takes Transmec’s UK warehousing space to ...
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Broker Air Charter Service says it has arranged charter flights carrying over 1,000 tonnes of aid to the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte since it was hit by Cyclone Chido on 14 December.
Ben Dinsdale, director for government and humanitarian services said: “We were first contacted the following day and ...
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Port of Boulogne Calais reported a profitable year in 2024, despite the unstable economic climate, with cross-Channel, rail motorways and new cars all showing growth.
The Port of Calais maintained its freight traffic at the same level as in 2023, with 1.8 million units and f almost 40 million tons. The ...
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Portsmouth carried out the first LNG transfer at the port when the Saint-Malo, Brittany Ferries' new LNG-electric hybrid ferry took on the fuel from the Optimus, a bunkering barge operated by Titan Clean Fuels.
Titan was issued a permit to perform LNG bunkering operations at Portsmouth International Port earlier this month, ...
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Climate events are impacting canal operations and are widely forecast to get worse in the future, warns insurer TT Club.
In 2024, the hottest year on record globally, European waterways continued to experience significant disruption to cargo transport. In June the Rhine suffered torrential rain leading to severe flooding in southern ...
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Despite rising operating costs and increases in National Insurance, Adrian Redmile, branch and sales director at Europa Road is hopeful about the outlook for 2025. He says that the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) suggests we can be cautiously optimistic about the economic outlook for 2025 with ...
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Canada’s WestJet Cargo has joined the Freightos WebCargo and 7LFreight platforms. It will allow freight forwarders to access its network and see real-time rates, place eBookings, and pay online on key routes between Calgary and major international hubs, including London Heathrow, Tokyo Narita and Paris Charles de Gaulle for general ...
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Ports are finding themselves in the front line of the war on drugs and geopolitical conflicts, Antwerp-Bruges chief executive Jacques Vandermeiren told a press conference to announce the Belgian gateway’s annual results for 2024.
In a year with many challenges, Antwerp-Bruges scored a notable success –intercepted illegal drugs in the port ...
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German supply chain specialist Arvato has opened a logistics centre in Dubai. Located in the CommerCity free trade zone, the 3,300sq m warehouse is 10 minutes from Dubai Airport and less than an hour from Jebel Ali Port.
Arvato projects that e-commerce market revenue in the Middle East and North Africa ...
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