Chris Lewis
Forth Ports has had a bumper ‘tattie’ season with 65,000 tonnes of seed potatoes exported around the world from Grangemouth. October and November are the port’s peak months for the trade with over half of the annual total of reefer containers passing through the terminal.
Every year, around 3,500 reefers containing approximately 65,000 tonnes of seed potatoes grown on farms across Scotland including Caithness & Sutherland, Grampian, Angus, Perthshire, Fife, the ...
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The Freightos booking and payment platform is to list on the US NASDAQ exchange following the closing of its business combination with Gesher Acquisition Corporation. Freightos connects airlines, liner shipping companies, trucking companies and freight forwarders with over 10,000 importers and exporters, offering rate comparison, booking, payment, and shipment management.
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MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk are to terminate the 2M vessel sharing agreement in January 2025. Introduced in 2015, it created one of the largest container shipping operations in the world and operated on the Asia-Europe, Transatlantic and Transpacific trades. The 2M agreement has a minimum term of ...
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended that the Liner Shipping Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) be replaced by a Liner Shipping Consortia Block Exemption Order (CBEO) tailored to the needs of UK businesses and consumers when it expires on 25 April 2024.
However, the CMA proposes that any ...
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Air Canada has appointed Jon Turner as vice president, cargo from February 18. He is currently vice president, inflight services. With three dedicated Boeing 767 freighters now in the fleet and seven more on the way, plus two Boeing 777 freighters due for delivery in 2024, he will have oversight of ...
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Transport insurer TT Club has helped the Police’s National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS) write a Problem Profile on freight crime, which aims to obtain increased public funding to address the situation.
The report details types of crime, methodologies, locational analysis and the direct and indirect costs of freight crime to ...
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The Transport for the North (TfN) regional grouping has published an International Connectivity and Aviation policy paper, pointing out that only two in five exports leave through sea or air gateways in the region.
It builds on TfN’s previous policy on International Connectivity which highlighted the importance of aviation and shipping ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is cooperating with the Pledge carbon measurement and offsetting platform to help its members better understand and address environmental issues affecting international supply chains. Pledge will provide BIFA with resources to guide members on what to do to address the tasks at hand and ...
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Abu Dhabi’s AD Ports Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tosyalı, one of Turkey’s largest private steel producers.
AD Ports will collaborate with Tosyalı on shipping, logistics, ports, and freight forwarding services, including potentially jointly investing in new port facilities to support its export operations.
With 30 manufacturing plants, including ...
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Air Canada Cargo will launch a scheduled Boeing 767 freighter service to Liege, Belgium in February with flights to Basel expected to begin in April.
The Liege flights will operate twice per week initially, increasing to three flights per week later in the year. Basel, one of Europe's premiere pharmaceutical hubs, ...
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