Chris Lewis
Chapman Freeborn’s Magma Aviation arm has celebrated its 1000th flight in partnership with overland logistics organisation MidnightZulu, supporting Kenya’s economy and horticultural industry.
The service operates from Nairobi, Kenya to Liège, Belgium.
The airbridge was established in 2018, initially with three flights a week, increasing to four in 2019 operated by one of Magma Aviation’s fleet of B474-700F aircraft.
The link facilitates transportation of cut flowers, fresh vegetables and herbs from Jomo Kenyatta ...
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Freight insurer TT Club has joined the Department for Transport (DfT) Task and Finish Group (TFG) to raise standards and increase capacity of truck parking in the UK. The TFG’s brief includes mapping of highest crime locations across the last four years including violent crimes against drivers and exploring greater ...
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BG Freight Line is to introduce four new vessels on its Liverpool-Rotterdam route fitted with a scrubber to catch CO2 and sulphur particles, along with increased capacity for cargo giving a lower carbon footprint per container.
They are also equipped to handle biomethanol, allowing them to be powered by this sustainable ...
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IAG Cargo has launched a route between Dublin and Denver for the first time in its history. The route, operated by IAG’s Irish arm, Aer Lingus, will have a frequency of four times per week, using an Airbus 330-200 aircraft.
Services between Dublin and Toronto will also be boosted by a ...
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Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has upgraded Etihad Airport Services Cargo’s hub in Abu Dhabi to the latest version of its cargo management system (CMS), following a contract renewal that will also include the Hermes Business Intelligence add-on.
Hermes 5 is HLT’s latest function-rich cargo management system and forms the core of ...
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Austrian based forwarder Cargo-partner – now part of Nippon Express Group - has expanded its air freight offering from key airports in Belgium and the Netherlands to worldwide destinations.
The Benelux air services are managed from Cargo-partner’s Amsterdam and Brussels branches by an in-house team of trade experts speaking Mandarin, Dutch ...
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Stena Line’s shipowning sister company Stena RoRo has signed a conversion contract with China Merchants Jinling (Weihai) Shipyard to install an additional cargo deck, increased thruster capacity and preparations for shore power on the Stena Foreteller and Stena Forerunner.
Cargo capacity will increase by 30% and the vessels will after conversion ...
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Dublin headquartered Toga Freight Services has acquired the equity of Erith, Kent-based forwarder, Irish Sea Logistics.
The deal is the second acquisition by Toga Freight Services in 2024, following its purchase of Toga Customs Services in early April.
Irish Sea Logistics is a specialist forwarder operating between Great Britain and Ireland and ...
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French President, Emmanuel Macron, and CMA CGM chairman and chief executive, Rodolphe Saadé officially opened Tangram, a global center dedicated to innovation and training for the logistics and shipping group's employees on 8 May.
Designed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, it will train over 3,000 people each and will serve as ...
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Freight software firm Agency Sector Management (ASM) is urging businesses that submits customs declarations to HMRC to use the new Customs Declaration Service (CDS) for exports ahead of the 4 June deadline, if they are not already doing so.
The legacy system, CHIEF, will be closed to new export Customs declarations on ...
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