Chris Lewis
XPO has set up a Logistics Driver Excellence Academy to offer opportunities to people who want to qualify as HGV drivers.
The Academy is already running at four XPO sites in Kirkby Thore in Cumbria, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Ilkeston in Derbyshire, and Dordon in North Warwickshire with 100% pass rates for some cohorts. XPO has created an Academy ‘toolkit’ so that any site can implement the programme where there is ...
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Tower Cold Chain is offering a new lightweight temperature controlled container compatible with US and EU standards. The Evolution 1600 Tower Universal Pallet is a quarter of the size of a PMC pallet, allowing four containers to be transported per pallet. Following detailed analysis, Tower has reduced the amount of ...
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P&O Ferries is to charter out the Norbay, one of the two ships currently operating its Liverpool-Dublin route – which is scheduled to close towards the end of the year – to fellow operator Irish Ferries.
The vessel will initially be chartered for up to six months – with the potential ...
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Chief executive of the Haropa (Le Havre, Rouen and Paris) port group Stephane Raison has been appointed as regional vice president of Europe at the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH) while Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka takes the same role for North America. Hamburg Port Authority chief ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is offering a new high-speed cargo option. Td.Zoom is the fastest service for the most urgent shipments and is in addition to the existing td.Pro and td.Flash options.
The carrier claims “the fastest capacity access with no weight or size limitations” with special handling processes at its Frankfurt, Munich ...
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SkyNet Worldwide Express says it has cut delivery times from the UK to Australia from 4-8 days to 2–5 days by meticulous connections mapping and optimised logistics. Every connection is now made within four hours of arrival at a transit point, eliminating delays and using five strategic Australian entry points ...
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Maastricht Aachen Airport has appointed former Croatian Air Force pilot Dean Boljuncic to head up its new sales department. He will draw on his experience as head of aviation development and partnerships at Eindhoven After leaving the Air Force, he held various roles at Pula Airport, and graduated with a ...
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The Rhenus Group is to re-equip two canal push boats operated by Deutsche Binnenreederei with lower-emission stage V engines. While construction of hydrogen-powered vessels is a long-term project, Rhenus is retrofitting older vessels with more environmentally-friendly technology in the short term with RSPSB146 and RSPSB153, built in the 1970s, the ...
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US-based Global Critical Logistics (GCL) has acquired Time Frame Logistics in Auckland and Wellington-based Xtreme Forwarding.
Time Frame’s assets and business will be fully integrated into GCL’s existing Rock-it Global subsidiary and will be branded as Rock-it Global New Zealand.
Xtreme Forwarding will continue operating under its current brand alongside its Dynamic ...
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US-owned logistics company XPO has launched a multimodal route between Italy and Germany.
It uses rail for 900km (560 miles) from Domodossola to Duisburg, mainly to carry retail goods, food, and automotive components., saving about 1 ton of CO2 for each load carried.
XPO uses P400 semi-trailers, which are linked by GPS ...
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