Chris Lewis
DSV has awarded Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) a long-term European Gateway cargo handling contract in Liege, Belgium.
WFS, now a member of the SATS Group and the world’s largest cargo handler, already provides air logistics services for DSV in Amsterdam and at Huntsville International Airport in Alabama. Further network collaboration is under review at other WFS stations globally.
WFS will resource and operate DSV’s hub facility in Liege, providing warehouse handling of ...
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Air France KLM Martinair Cargo has added new functions to its myCargo platform. The digital service, which enables customers them to view, book and manage their allocations will in future include features such as automatically booked allotments for an entire season. Other plans include an E-Pharma service. Last month, the ...
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Heavylift forwarder Deugro has delivered 280,000 freight tons for the Long Son A1 olefins plant project in Vietnam on behalf of its client TPSK—a Consortium of TechnipFMC and SK Engineering & Construction.
Equipment came from over seaports and airports worldwide to the construction site near Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. Nearly 178,300 freight ...
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Stena Line is constructing two new bespoke freight ferries for its Heysham-Belfast route.
Each of the two new 147-meter vessels has been designed to maximise freight volumes and will provide 2,800 lane meters of capacity, an 80% increase on current ship capacities.
The new vessels, the first of which is due to ...
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Lufthansa Cargo and airfreight IT specialist Champ Cargosystems have announced a plan to actively drive the transition towards IATA’s data sharing standard for the transportation industry, ONE Record (1R). Both companies have committed to implement the ONE Record standard within their respective IT infrastructures and will interchange data via 1R ...
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German global forwarder Dachser has signed a joint venture agreement with Japanese logistics company Nishi-Nippon Railroad and will open its first office in Tokyo at the end of 2023. It will offer air and sea transport with connections to Dachser’s overland transport network in Europe. Managing director Dachser South Korea’ ...
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Logistics UK has welcomed the government’s decision to permanently allow longer semi-trailers, announced today (10 May), saying it would reduce road emissions and costs. It said it would bring many environmental benefits by reducing congestion and numbers of vehicles on the road, as well as potentially increasing road safety.
It added ...
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Europa Road is to introduce its first electric vehicle into its domestic distribution fleet. . The trial, arranged by contract hire company Vertellus and its partner RH Commercial Vehicles.Europa is also the first company to trial the Vertellus’ EV Discovery Programme, which aims to actively support customers’ low carbon agenda ...
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Visibility provider FourKites has signed a partnership with the Gravity supply chain management platform for shippers and freight forwarders. It will extend the real-time visibility offered by the FourKites platform to encompass the first mile — from the time an order is placed with a supplier —through to product delivery ...
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CharterSync is offering a fully integrated digital end-to-end booking process and management system for freight forwarders, due to be rolled out to customers in June 2023.
Fully integrated into CharterSync’s existing web and mobile booking platform, the new process captures and consolidates all data and documentation associated with a charter booking, ...
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