Chris Lewis
A team from logistics company XPO achieved top marks in the Big Logistics Diversity Challenge 2023.
The challenge, which was held this year at the Newark Showground in Nottinghamshire, brings together companies within logistics to take part in mental and physical team building events that all support inclusion and diversity. The XPO team successfully collaborated to achieve the competition’s highest score. XPO is currently running numerous diversity and inclusion initiatives across its business, ...
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Danish ferry and logistics company DFDS has obtained clearance from the Turkish Competition Authority for its possible acquisition of Ekol Logistics’ international road haulage activities. The filing was made in October 2022. DFDS has made commitments to the continued access for all logistics operators to DFDS’ ferry routes to/from Türkiye. ...
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Stena Line has resumed normal sailings on its Belfast-Cairnryan and Rosslare-Fishguard routes.
Services were impacted last week when an onboard incident resulted in the withdrawal of Stena Superfast VII on the Belfast-Cairnryan route.
Stena Superfast VII returned to service for the 19:30 sailing from Belfast to Cairnryan on 27 July whilst Stena ...
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IAG Cargo has reported commercial revenues of €603 million for the first half of 2023 (1 January to 30 June), a 28.5 % decrease year-on-year but an increase of 8.5% versus the same period before the pandemic in 2019. Yields for H1 2023 were below those of H1 2022, tonnage ...
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Italian-owned TX Logistik is set to become the second largest rail freight carrier in Germany after it announced a plan to buy Exploris Deutschland Holding GmbH, Hamburg, subject to regulatory approval.
TX Logistik is part of the Mercitalia Group, which also includes the logistics activities of the Italian state railway’s FS ...
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Pharmaceutical logistics specialist Envirotainer and thermal insulation company va-Q-tec have gained approval from the Austrian and German competition authorities for a merger.
Envirotainer said va-Q-tec’s offering of advanced passive boxes and containers that maintain temperatures from -180°C to +20°C without external energy input would be a perfect match for its own ...
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DP World independent non-executive director Robert Woods has lambasted the UK’s financiers for their lack of support for the UK shipping industry.At the christening ceremony in Dover for P&O Ferries’ latest vessel, the P&O Pioneer, he paid tribute to the Dubai-based company’s support for the cross—Channel and Irish Sea ro ...
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Climate-tech company Pledge is rolling out its carbon emissions measurement, reporting, and offsetting solutions to Canadian freight forwarder, Synergie Canada.
Synergie Canada will use the platform to provide customers with simple, transparent, and traceable carbon emissions measurement and reporting., giving them actionable data on their footprint.
Trade Lane Director at Synergie Canada, ...
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FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations and TT Club have announced the winners of the Young Logistics Professionals Award 2023.
They are: Andre Hein Gerber, South Africa (Africa and Middle East region); Viktoriia Rudyk, Canada (Americas); Hasbi Bin Yaakob, Singapore (Asia-Pacific); and Nils von Salzen, Germany (Europe).
They said that, once ...
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Supply chain visibility provider FourKites has appointed Dr Bo Tao as chief technology officer and Manik Mair as senior vice president of corporate growth
Dr Bo Tao, has worked in the logistics and software industry for over 20 years, with experience at Next Trucking, Google, Symantec, Dell Technologies and Cheetah Mobile ...
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