Chris Lewis
Swire Shipping has opened a branch office in Dili, capital of Timor-Leste, a south-east island nation that lies about 500km north of Australia. It will be led by Darry Tan, who has spent the past two years in Timor-Leste working closely with Swire Shipping's agency partner, CEVA Logistics. Swire Shipping will recruit a number of personnel who will transition from CEVA Logistics to the new office. Timor-Leste became an independent ...
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The CMA CGM Notre Dame was named in Le Havre, the latest vessel in the CMA CGM fleet, the largest container vessel operating under the French flag and the largest LNG-powered box ship in the world. She is nearly 400 metres long, 61 metres wide and has a capacity of ...
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Turkish Airlines resumed flights to Abu Dhabi on 1 July and will restart services to Dammam on 10 July, Kuwait on 11 July and Bahrain on 16 July.
It follows the restart of Dubai operations on 9 June with an increase from seven to 14 weekly flights from 25 June. Flights ...
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UAE cargo airline SolitAir has started services from Dubai to Sofia, Bulgaria, its first destination in the EU. It follows its designation as an ACC3 (Air Cargo and Mail Carrier from a Third Country) designation, granted by the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority. The new service connects to the carrier’s established ...
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Dog screener, Global K9, is calling on UK regulators to review regulations for aerospace cargo.
Chief commercial officer, Chris Daniels, told delegates at the Multimodal 2026 exhibition in Birmingham, that aircraft engines cannot currently be screened by certified canine teams in the UK and, as a result, are routinely sentby road ...
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BIFA director general Steve Parker says he plans to meet with politicians and officials to try and reformulate Northern Ireland’s customs status. With a new version of the Trader Support System (TSS) due to launch in January, he says that the province’s customs status is currently unclear and indeed, “messy”.
Northern ...
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CMA CGM Group has signed an agreement to acquire FedEx’s Supply Chain arm for $1.4 billion. The acquisition, expected to close in 2026, would nearly triple the size of the North American contract logistics operations of its CEVA Logistics subsidiary.
The combined entity would operate about 150 warehouses, with a combined ...
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Air India is offering its capacity on the cargo.one platform. It allows forwarders to discover, quote and book services for general cargo up to 2500 kg on both Air India’s international services between destinations in India and global gateways such as Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo.
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Digital cargo insurance specialist Breeze has partnered with the Realm Realtime’s Oppi platform to automatically generate an insurance quotation that forwarders can choose to accept and issue a policy. A direct application programming interface (API) integration automates the exchange of shipment data between the two platforms.
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Gulftainer has launched a dedicated feeder service linking the UAE and Umm Qasr, Iraq. It operates into the Umm Qasr Logistics Centre (UQLC), which provides warehousing, container storage, cargo consolidation, customs facilitation and value-added services. Gulftainer operates ten vessels connecting the Gulf, Iraq, India, Pakistan, China, and Southeast Asia.
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