Chris Lewis
Online delivery specialist Seko Logistics has released its first ever Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report, for 2022 to 2023.
Along with naming Kai Lincoln its first-ever global vice president of sustainability in 2022, the Schaumburg, Illinois-based company made a commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050 and has submitted an initial commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) - a partnership between the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the United ...
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The Princess Royal, in her capacity as Patron of international development organisation Transaid, visited corporate supporter DP World’s Southampton hub on 14 July.
During the visit, HRH saw DP World demonstrate a new pinning station which has been introduced to remove the need for staff to work near straddle carriers, as ...
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Portsmouth stevedore Portico has been accredited as a Living Wage Employer. Everyone working at the company receives a minimum hourly wage of £10.90, higher than the government minimum for over 23s, currently £10.42. Portico is based in the south-east, a region where over 9% of all jobs pay less than ...
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Humber Freeport was officially launched at Hull’s Alexandra Dock on 17 July, which also marked the establishment of the Humber Freeport Company.
Humber Freeport comprises three tax sites – Hull East; Able Marine Energy Park and Immingham, on the south bank of the Humber; and Goole. Benefits include land tax relief, ...
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Emirates SkyCargo is gearing up for the summer wedding season by scaling up its cool chain capacity for perishables. It moved 3,590 tonnes of time- and temperature-sensitive fresh cut flowers in May, 20% up on the same month last year.
Ecuador and Kenya are the top two export origin locations; Ecuador ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has appointed Andrew Melton as regional representative for the Midlands and North Region. He joins the association from Ligentia where he was UK compliance manager. He has also served as a non-executive BIFA director for 14 years and was its chair from 2009 to ...
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Northampton based Crisis Logistics has acquired Action Express. Established as a same day delivery specialist in 1998, Crisis Logistics also offers warehousing and fulfilment and national and international road haulage.
It is a member of the APC Overnight parcel delivery network and the Pallet-Track network.
Crisis Logistics plans to retain Action Express’ ...
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US-owned logistics company XPO is offering a multimodal route between Santander and Liverpool, based on the ro ro service via Dublin introduced by CldN last year.
XPO will offer two weekly departures and says the routing will save more than 2,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per trip per year compared with ...
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The ONE Innovation is set to turn the town pink when she arrives in the port of Hamburg tomorrow (15 July). The largest vessel operated by the three-line Japanese consortium (K Line, Mitsui OSK and NYK) and the first of six new Megamax vessels to join ONE's fleet, she is ...
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German-owned company Dachser has appointed Juan Vilarino as managing director air and sea logistics (ASL) Argentina.
He is in charge of a team of around 25 people based in the country’s regional office in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires and reports directly to Ralph Riehl, managing director ASL Americas.
He has worked ...
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