Chris Lewis
Ballymena -based Pallet-Track shareholder member, TST Group, is extending its partnership to support the network’s Northern Irish operation.
Family-run TST Group has been a shareholder of Pallet-Track since 2017 and manages an average of 500 pallets per day for the UK distribution network via its Birmingham operation. The latest move will boost the number of pallets TST Group handles per day for Pallet-Track, from 500 to 800 pallets.
TST chief executive, Liam ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo capacity is now available on Freightos’ WebCargo e-booking platform. The UK-based airline flies to 30 destinations, including the US, the Caribbean, India, China, Nigeria and South Africa.
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The Port of Dover and the Universities of Plymouth and Manchester have been awarded a £333,585 grant by Innovate UK to create a digital twin of the ro ro port.
The funding underpins a three-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), that will harness the universities’ expertise in hydrodynamic modelling and cutting-edge research ...
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GB Railfreight has started a new five days a week intermodal service between London Gateway and iPort Doncaster. It will use new FEA-G intermodal wagons, each able to carry six teu , significantly increasing the volume of cargo that can be transported on each journey.
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UK-based Clarion Events has selected Kuehne+Nagel as its official global logistics partner on a long-term contract. Clarion Events organises over two hundred exhibitions around the world, including the Multimodal show in the UK in June. Kuehne+Nagel will be the exclusive onsite handling provider for those events, which includes storage, lifting ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed Ashley Curnow as its new divisional port manager for Wales and the Southwest. He will oversee ports in South Wales alongside Plymouth and Teignmouth in the Southwest and was previously head of Humber International Terminal and Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal.
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CLECAT (European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services) and the European Shippers Council have warned Members of the European Parliament that the EU Customs Reform proposal could have unforeseen consequences.
While supporting the overall objectives of the plan, they say that the programme is “incredibly ambitious”, and that MEPs ...
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Implementation of Ireland’s first freight strategy has started positively, but more assistance will be needed from government to ensure a green transition, says FTA Ireland (FTAI).
FTAI chief executive, Aidan Flynn said that a freight strategy for Ireland was long overdue, and that work had started positively to implement its recommendations ...
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Freight forwarders often say that their rivals are on a different planet but in the case of Austria’s Gebrüder Weiss it was literally true for a couple of days in late January.
As the official logistics partner of the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), it turned its Maria Lanzendorf location into ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is urging members to consider recruiting apprentices.The call comes as part of National Apprentice Week in early February, and BIFA is taking the opportunity to remind its members that the International Freight Forwarding specialist apprenticeship, which BIFA helped create in 2018, is an ideal ...
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