Chris Lewis

Cargo-partner offers North America in 11 days

Cargo-partner, a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, says it now offers the fastest sea freight export service from Ireland and the UK to a number of destinations in North America. Its enhanced service offers weekly connections from Ireland to the US and Canada, with convenient access to feeder services in the UK via Liverpool and offers transit times as short as 11 days, including FCL, LCL, and special project options. Cargo-partner ... [+]

XPO goes green in Leicester

XPO has added its Leicester shared user distribution centre to its list of certified carbon neutral sites. The site is constructed to BREEAM Carbon Neutral standard, and the company is taking further actions to control and minimise carbon emissions including actively managing water demand through metering and monitoring usage across ... [+]

DHL appoints EMEA supply chain chief

DHL Supply Chain has appointed Andries Retief as its new chief commercial officer for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. He joined DHL Supply Chain in 2009 and has served in various leadership positions and most recently, he led DHL Supply Chain in Southeast Asia, where he spearheaded ... [+]

Network Rail cancels charges for new traffic

Network Rail is waiving track access charges for six months for new traffic. The offer is open to all train operators and types of service that meet the qualifying criteria, and is worth around £1,000 per return train journey, depending on the length and loading of the trains. Rail Minister Lord ... [+]

G5 number five for Grimaldi

Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of its fifth G5 multipurpose ro-ro ship at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea. The Great Casablanca will be used on the service between Northern Europe and West Africa and will be one of an eventual six sister ships. With a deadweight of 45,684 ... [+]

Maersk opens giant Jeddah site

Maersk has opened its logistics park at Jeddah Islamic Port in Saudi Arabia. It says the 225,000sq, US$25 million development is the largest single-site Logistics & Services facility in the Middle East. It offers warehousing for B2B and e-commerce requirements, temperature-controlled areas, a customs bonded area and has been designed ... [+]

WFS plans to take over Menzies in Amsterdam Schiphol

Worldwide Flight Services Holland, a member of the SATS Group, is expanding its presence in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), with the proposed acquisition of Menzies World Cargo (Amsterdam) B.V., Menzies Aviation’s general cargo handling operations at the main international airport in the Netherlands. It would increase warehouse capacity and cargo handling ... [+]

Cosco signs up for clean, green dozen

Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry and Cosco Shipping Container Lines have signed a contract in Shanghai for the construction of twelve 14,000 TEU container ships with dual-fuel methanol propulsion. The new vessels are equipped with the world’s most powerful permanent magnet shaft generator, a bow wind deflector, an air lubrication system ... [+]

Gothenburg completes biggest port expansion in 40 years

The Port of Gothenburg has inaugurated a €60 million, 144,000sq m terminal. Arendal 2, which has been in planning for six years is part of the port's strategy to concentrate its terminal operations in the outer port area, further from the city centre, and to create direct road and rail ... [+]

Malcolm Group’s John Heirs trains the trainers in Zambia

Malcolm Group construction training and compliance manager, John Heirs has returned from his fourth secondment for international development organisation, Transaid. He spent two weeks training three new HGV driver trainers at the Industrial Training Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. He has already completed three secondments took place at the National Institute of ... [+]

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