Chris Lewis
Logistics non-profit organisation Transaid has secured a Movement for Good Award from the Benefact Group. It will use it to fund more ‘training of trainers’ for its professional driver project in Ghana, where the demand for HGV drivers is increasing rapidly, and where some 7,000 people are killed in road traffic collisions year.
The undisclosed sum forms part of a share of £500,000 being donated by Benefact Group to charities. Transaid ...
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DSV has launched a trial of a CNG-fuelled truck in Immingham. If successful, it will help the Danish-owned company to achieve the Science Based Targets set by the DSV Sustainability Board. The Bio-CNG comes from a waste feedstock and is verified and approved by the Department for Transport. The company ...
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Shipnext is offering Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers students access to its platform free of charge for one year. The offer is open to registered ICS Students, Members and Fellows of the Institute. Shipnext digital solutions include data and email processing, freight-matching, freight tendering and chartering, contract management, digital documentation flow, ...
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Afreximbank has issued the first multi-border transit bond under a new guarantee scheme. The Afreximbank African Collaborative Transit Guarantee Scheme (AATGS) aims to promote the seamless movement of goods across multiple national customs borders and shorten the time needed for border clearances. The US$10 million transit bond issued in favour ...
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Equipment sharing agreements between different freight companies can make for efficient use of resources but could lead to liability issues if appropriate cover is not in place, warns insurer TT Club. In a new paper, ‘Risk Byte: Good neighbour agreements, the first in a series of advice documents says that ...
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Entertainment and live event logistics specialist Rock-it Global – a Global Critical Logistics Company - has acquired Dell Will Customs Brokers. The Detroit, Michigan-based company primarily serves the motorsports and automotive manufacturing industries, and will add to Rock-it Global’s existing customs brokerage capabilities.
Founder and vice president of Motorsports Customs Brokerage, ...
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Röhlig Logistics has opened an office in Madrid and has appointed María Jesús Fernandez as branch manager. Röhlig Logistics is also represented in Barcelona and Bilbao.
General manager at Röhlig Spain, Albert Mora, said that Madrid has diversified its industry mix in recent years, attracting many multinational companies from various sectors ...
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IAG Cargo is increasing frequency on a number of routes in its winter schedule. These include London to Cape Town (17 flights a week), Accra, Doha and Miami the latter two destinations now served 14 times a week.
Out of Madrid, IAG Cargo will offer additional capacity on routes to Bogota, ...
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Multimodal operator CargoBeamer says that Girteka, the largest asset-based road freight company in Europe, has become the first company to reach the 20,000 trailer milestone on its rail services.
Lithuanian-based Girteka booked its first units on CargoBeamer’s trains in October 2017 and uses mainly the Kaldenkirchen (Germany) to Domodossola (Italy) route ...
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The Port of Antwerp-Bruges reported total tonnage of 204.4 million tonnes for the first nine months of 2023, a drop of 6% compared to the same period last year and a near identical performance to its rival Rotterdam, which reported yesterday (23 October). Antwerp-Bruges said the still unstable geopolitical and ...
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