Chris Lewis
Essex forwarder Woodland Group has attained Customs CFS status for its their New Jersey facility. The location has expanded its service offering to import air and ocean CFS freight handling alongside its existing international freight handling, air cargo screening and transfer services, transload, cross dock, air and ocean export consolidation and storage. The 70,000sq ft facility is 'A' classified close to the main airports and ocean terminals of New York ...
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Digital insurance platform provider Breeze has partnered with forwarding firm Barrington Freight (Barrington) to offer an automated cargo insurance process. It uses Breeze’s AI-driven platform to optimize quote generation, policy binding, and claims processing and, it says, has significantly reduced the time and effort needed to supply accurate cargo by ...
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Global supply chain and logistics consultancy, SCALA, has launched a complimentary good practice guide to mergers and acquisitions (M&A). M&As remain a top priority for businesses but they can be risky and have a significant effect on supply chain and logistics, says SCALA. The guide gives an insight into analysing ...
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The WACO System (WACO) network of forwarders has appointed Unlimited Logistics Solutions (as its member for Angola. ULS, a freight forwarding and customs broker agency, provides air and sea transport freight forwarding, customs clearance, last mile delivery, container yard operations, insurance, packing and added value services.
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The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK has appointed Paul Adams as its new chief executive. He joins CILT(UK) from the Institute of Directors where he was national director/chief operating officer for two years. Before that, Paul Adams held various chief executive posts in the charity sector ...
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Shippers need to be aware of the environmental risks of transporting plastic pellets or ‘nurdles’, says freight insurer, TT Club.
The tiny plastic nurdles measuring a few millimetres in diameter used to manufacturer most plastic products pose a threat to the marine environment if they are spilled into the sea or ...
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Raising the temperature of frozen food in the global supply chain by three degrees could save the carbon dioxide emissions of 3.8 million cars per year, says DP World, which has set up an industry coalition to explore the feasibility of doing this.
Join the Move to -15°C argues that increasing ...
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Dronamics has signed with Qatar Airways what it claims is the first interline agreement between an international airline and a cargo drone airline.
It allows the extension of the delivery networks of both partners, significantly increasing their reach as well as providing access to areas previously hard to reach by traditional ...
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Freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel loaded four tonnes of Scottish salmon on board Virgin Atlantic's Flight 100 from Heathrow to New York on 28 November, the first operated by a commercial airline to operate on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The cargo, from sustainable producer Bakkafrost, was non-revenue but K+N, one ...
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The Port of Rotterdam officially commissioned the Container Exchange Route (CER) on the Maasvlakte was officially commissioned on 28 November. The 17-kilometre-long closed road network currently links the container terminals of Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG), the Delta terminal of Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam, QTerminals Kramer Rotterdam and the State Inspection ...
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