Chris Lewis
MSC Air Cargo, the carrier launched in 2022 by container shipper MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is now using Descartes Air Messaging to manage t shipments. It helps standardize electronic communication between stakeholders in the air cargo supply chain, including freight forwarders, ground handling agents and government agencies, all of whom have disparate data standards, connectivity requirements and varying systems. Descartes’ system uses Electronic Data Interchange, Application Programming Interfaces (API) and ...
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France’s Modalis Group has developed a lightweight swap-body with greater interior volume rail-road freight:
Designed in collaboration with the Belgian engineering firm Agesia, the unit is made from special steels and an innovative composite material that will be previewed at the JEC World 2024 trade fair for such materials.
The 45ft unit ...
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Ryan Keyrouse has assumed the chief executiveship of air cargo software and strategy consulting company Rotate. Fellow- co-founder Gert-Jan Jansen remains on the board as an executive director and senior advisor. Since its launch in June 2022, Rotate has expanded its operations across two continents with a team of 35. ...
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The European Commission says it plans extend its road transport agreements with Ukraine and Moldova while updating that with Ukraine.
The original agreements, signed in June 2022 and later extended until end of June 2024 give bilateral transport rights to Ukrainian, Moldovan and EU hauliers in each other's territories. The Commission ...
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reviewing the Rail, Road and Inland Waterway Transport Block Exemption Regulation ahead of a recommendation to government on whether to vary or revoke it. It is one of the EU block exemption regulations that were in force at the end of the ...
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European forwarder’s group Clecat, the European Shippers' Council and the European Express Association have welcome a European plan for a common framework for calculating emissions but warn that they have serious concerns over its practicality and effectiveness.
They says that the CountEmissions EU initiative would enable transport operators to accurately calculate, ...
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DHL Group’s DHL Global Forwarding arm has signed a pro bono logistics partnership with German NGO kinderherzen to deliver the world's first mobile heart clinic for infants to several countries, starting with El Salvador. A
team of international heart surgeons will provide free life-saving surgeries and therapies to infants affected by ...
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Forth Ports has chosen Tidalis to implement a comprehensive Port Management Information System (PMIS). The company sought a modern and robust replacement of their current PMIS and Tidalis emerged as the clear frontrunner with its comprehensive functionality.
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UPS has appointed Markus Kessler as country cluster manager for UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.
He was previously country manager for UPS in Austria and Switzerland, having joined UPS in 2006 as an account executive in Frankfurt and later becoming vice president for human resources and labour relations.
In ...
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Hong Kong forwarder U-Freight Group (UFL) has signed an agreement with Shanghai Hongyu Supply Chain Management Co to create a global one-stop medical supply chain service.
Shanghai Hongyu specialises in supply chain management for medical and healthcare products in China.
Under the deal, the two companies will share resources to develop complementary ...
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