Chris Lewis
Transport insurer TT Club says that a more systemic approach to warehousing could reduce freight thefts. It says that analysis of past claims shows that risks to goods where warehouses are confused and disorganised and that inventory management should be paramount.
TT’s Josh Finch said: “Inventory management often runs quietly in the background until something goes wrong. Small issues can quickly turn into large and costly errors if they are not ...
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Europa Road is extending its Delivery Duty Paid (DDP) service, Europa Flow, to all its daily routes between Ireland and Great Britain. It has also invested over £1m in its infrastructure in Ireland to establish a dedicated team in Dublin (pictured below) and a specialist customs brokerage service to support ...
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Short-sea operator WEC Lines Ibero has opened an office in Figuiera da Foz, Portugal. it is headed by Samuel Sousawho brings 11 years’ experience with shipping companies and freight forwarders.
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Network operator Pall-Ex will launch a third-party logistics (3PL) division, Pall-Ex Logistics at Multimodal in June.
Working alongside Pall-Ex’s two UK pallet networks, Pall-Ex Logistics 3PL network will offer 250,000 storage spaces at over 100 vetted and audited member locations throughout the country.
Each can supply short or long-term storage, fulfilment and ...
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Freight forwarder Militzer & Münch is now operating as PT Militzer and Muench in Indonesia, after taking a shareholding in a local company. It has a team of 72 full-time employees and 20 outsourced personnel at its head office in Jakarta, which includes a 6,000sq m warehouse and an operations ...
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Röhlig Logistics is offering a Röhlig Insights all-in-one reporting solution for air, sea and road shipments. It comes with a set of pre-defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and shipments can be tracked across milestones and filtered by a variety of parameters, including type, consignee or carrier. It also offers enhanced ...
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Germany’s BlueBox Systems has combined features of its existing BlueBoxAir and BlueBoxOcean products into a new service, BlueBoxCargo that it says real-time tracking capabilities on a single platform. It follows collaboration with freight forwarders such as Hellmann Worldwide Logistics and technology partners such as Vizion, giving a user-friendly and data-rich ...
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SATS subsidiary Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won a five-year contract to operate US Customs and Border Protection (CBp)’s new Centralized Examination Station at New York’s JFK Airport, due to open in early 2025.
It will combine all CBP inspections, a first in the air freight sector, and will also be ...
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Peel Ports Clydeport says it could invest up to £150 million in the redevelopment of the Hunterston marine yard in Ayrshire as an offshore wind hub.
Peel is preparing the site for occupancy as it seeks to attract major projects, amid growing demand for the offshore wind supply chain on the ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Nick Diesel as its new managing director, effective 4 August, replacing Phil Wardlow who is leaving the airline.
Diesel has been at Virgin Atlantic for nine years and was most recently vice president, financial planning, with responsibility for post-pandemic recovery.
With a background in strategy and operations ...
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