Chris Lewis
Logistics and trade management provider Uniserve has become the first company to buy Mere Plantations W&I insured carbon credits.
Mere Plantations announced the placement of the world’s first Carbon Credits insurance policy in June, brokered by insurance intermediary Howden, and Climate Law.
The policy significantly increases the integrity and value of the carbon credits as Mere can demonstrate to buyers that their credits have met the highest levels of environmental, social ...
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Courier firm ACS Time Critical recently chartered a private jet to transport life-saving blood plasma from Manchester in the UKr to a hospital in San Francisco.
The company received a call to deliver the plasma to the US within a very specific timeframe. It also had too be kept cool and ...
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Hapag-Lloyd's Terminal and Infrastructure division is to be rebranded Hanseatic Global Terminals. The company, which has a portfolio of 20 container terminals in 11 countries will be based in Rotterdam and is inspired by the Hanseatic League, a historic association of seafaring merchants in Northern Europe.
Key locations include Container Terminal ...
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Stena Line has laid the keel for the Stena Futura, the first of its ‘NewMax’ Belfast-Heysham vessels, due to go into service in autumn 2025.
The ceremony for the first of the two hybrid vessels took place in China Merchants Jinling Shipyard in WeiHai, China on 28 June.
The hybrid vessels are ...
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Shortsea operator and Samskip and logistics firm Matrans are to open a new central hub in Rotterdam to handle containers and breakbulk transport.
Samskip will achieve increased control over vessel, rail and barge operations, mitigating bottlenecks. Matrans will continue operations for existing customers in breakbulk, containers and ro ro.
The terminal will ...
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Bullet Express and Intercounty Distribution are helping to give a ship restoration project a new direction. The companies, both members of the Pall-Ex network, have delivered the original rudder for the TS Queen Mary from Glasgow to Cornwall. A bespoke crate was developed to ensure the rudder's safety during transit ...
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Danish transport and logistics company Leman says its 2023 annual results show a loss of DKR 65 million but says this corresponds to its investment during the year. The latter includes new offices in new countries, more than DKR50 million in new storage facilities in Taulov and a double-digit million ...
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German-owned logistics firm Rhenus has acquired 15% of the shares of French logistics service provider C Chez Vous from Geopost, with the latter retaining 80%. The new structure will enable C Chez Vous to benefit from Rhenus’ position in the European home logistics market. C Chez Vous was founded in ...
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Shoreham Port has signed up with Local Fuels to develop a Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) supply chain in the southeast region. For the past 12 months, the port has introduced HVO fuel for its cranes, forklift trucks, and marine vessels but says that, to fully realise the potential of HVO, ...
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Swiss-headquartered forwarder Militzer & Münch has set up a country unit in Mongolia. . Militzer & Münch has been active in Mongolia since 2000, but has so far managed operations from Berlin but M&M Mongolia, a joint venture with a large, international trading company, will take over local tasks. It ...
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