Chris Lewis
The Port of Dover has processed 29,108 miles of freight, car and coach traffic since 1 January 2023 – enough to stretch round the world and then some.
The ferry terminal handled £144bn worth of UK trade and 33% of the UK’s trade with the EU, every year on just 0.68 square miles of land.
The Port of Dover’s general cargo terminal imported 148 million bananas and 9 million melons into the ...
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FedEx Express is collaborating with the ZigZag reverse logistics platform to support customers with return shipments during and after the 2023 holiday season.
FedEx e-commerce customers can use an online returns portal branded with their logo and integrated with their web shop.
Retailers can also gain insights to help them understand the ...
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IAG Cargo has opened its fifth Constant Climate station in Africa, in Cape Town, approved for temperature-sensitive healthcare products. It will handle pharmaceuticals including vaccines and medicinal components to support. And will offer connections via London Heathrow to over 100 approved stations worldwide.
IAG Cargo sees South Africa as a critical ...
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German-owned supply chain company Arvato says it is prepared for tighter US drug requirements under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act which stipulates that pharmaceutical products must be electronically traceable at all times at package as well as batch level.
Medicine packs can be fully verified electronically via a specific serial ...
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Menzies Aviation is switching to biodegradable plastic in its cargo operations. M&G Packaging’s BioNatur Plastics will first be used in its cargo operations at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and Miami International Airport (MIA), where the switch will reduce long-term plastic waste by the equivalent ...
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Air Cargo Netherlands (ACN) trade association has opened a new branch for the Maastricht region.
ACN Maastricht has been set up to unite the air cargo community surrounding Maastricht Aachen Airport, the country’s only other freight gateway apart from Schiphol and with which it shares ownership.
The new group also aims to ...
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The Pharma.Aero collaboration platform for life science airfreight has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Cool Chain Association, an industry association specialising in temperature-controlled logistics, to harmonise processes in the sector.
The MoU outlines the associations’ shared commitment to foster collaboration and enhance transparency between the life science and perishable ...
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DoKaSch Temperature Solutions' Opticooler RKN container is now available on Air Canada Cargo's wide-body international flights, following approval of the equipment. The carrier has already approved Opticooler’s RAP model. The Opticooler is smaller version of the Opticooler RAP, with space for a single pallet compared with five for the RKN. ...
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Belgian maritime innovator Zulu Associates has released a new design for a zero emission English Channel vessel.
The 200teu autonomous short sea container vessel, zulu mass, featuring an auxiliary wind assistance system, is being built by Dutch ship naval architects Conoship International. It is being developed with Zulu’s subsidiary the Anglo ...
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Quality Freight Services operations co-ordinator Clara Thomas has been appointed as the new chair of the virtual format of the British International Freight Association’s Young Forwarder Network, taking over from Geodis’ Herbie Cobby.
Based in South Wales, she has participated in many virtual and face-to-face YFN events.
Established in 2019, BIFA’s YFN ...
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