Chris Lewis
The CMA CGM Group has unveiled the investment and business strategy for its recently acquired Global Container Terminals operation in the ports of Bayonne and New York Mew Jersey.
Effective immediately, the terminals will be named Port Liberty New York and nearby Port Liberty Bayonne, and CMA CGM will embark on a $600 million upgrade of the two facilities incorporating the latest technology, creating around 1,000 jobs, and making environmental improvements. ...
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Austrian forwarder Gebrüder Weiss’s ‘Cycling around the World’ campaign has ended with an impressive 612,246km (380,432 miles) covered by 650 participants – more than 15 times around the globe, far surpassing their original goal to circle the earth seven times.
The participants used a cycling app to record the distances they ...
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Saudia Cargo has gained IATA Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma certification. CEIV Pharma is designed to ensure that facilities, equipment, operations, and personnel meet the standards, regulations and guidelines that pharmaceutical manufacturers require.
Saudia Cargo chief executive, Teddy Zebitz, stated: "Since we've seen a significant increase in pharmaceutical ...
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The cities of Rotterdam and have signed a memorandum of understanding for a Green Corridor, anticipating the launch of Samskip’s zero-emission short sea container ships.
The cities’ two ports have also committed to accelerate green transition in shortsea shipping.
Both have invested in decarbonisation initiatives as part of their commitments to the ...
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Logistics company U-Freight has expanded its robot fleet at its Hong Kong e-commerce fulfilment centre. Some 12,000sq ft of the company’s 20,000sq ft facility in Kwai Chung has been equipped with an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and intelligent racking system, provided by Geek+.
It has added 30 of its P-series AMR ...
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FedEx Express Europe is to build a new logistics facility in Dublin. The new hub at the Horizon Business Park south of Dublin Airport will be FedEx’s headquarters in Ireland and will include a 14,560sq m warehouse, 30 truck loading bays and 137 van bays, a pickup and delivery station, ...
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Rhenus Group has signed a memorandum of cooperation with Uzbekistan Railway to jointly operate and expand combined terminals in Andijan and Samarkand. Two joint ventures will be established between Rhenus and Uztemiryulkonteyner, a subsidiary of Uzbek Railways. Uzbekistan is an essential bridge between China, Turkey and Europe and the Rhenus ...
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Freight industry representatives broadly welcomed the European Commission’s announcement on 9 October that It would not extend the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) that has hitherto allowed liner shipping consortia to operate.It said that it had concluded that the CBER no longer promotes competition in the shipping sector and that ...
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The FIATA international freight forwarders association confirmed Turgut Erkeskin from the Turkish UTIKAD association as its new president at its general meeting in Brussels on 6 October. Robert Keen, the former BIFA director general in the UK was also confirmed as FIATA’s secretary general.
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Freight forwarder Unsworth has integrated Pledge’s carbon emissions measurement platform with its Pathway, freight management app, Pathway, to add accredited carbon accounting functionality to its service portfolio. It enables Unsworth and its customers to measure, understand, and report their carbon emissions to allow them to make informed decisions to minimise ...
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