Chris Lewis
Associated British Ports (ABP) has updated its Southampton Air Quality Strategy, Cleaner Air for Southampton.
First published in 2018, the report outlines a number of measures that have been undertaken by ABP, its customers, shipping lines and wider stakeholders across the port to deliver improvements in air quality.
Over the past 12 months, the port has introduced shore power for cruise ships, alternative cleaner fuels and made further investment in rail infrastructure ...
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Sealogis, a subsidiary of French-owned forwarder Geodis, has signed a partnership agreement with Zéphyr & Borée, a French start-up pioneer that is designing sail-powered cargo ships.
Sealogis will be responsible for presenting, promoting and marketing the services of Zéphyr & Borée to shippers and forwarders.
The shipping company, based in Lorient in ...
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Retail logistics company Oakland International plans to expand its accredited distressed load management service over the coming year. It follows a move to a dedicated purpose-built hub in 2022.
The DLM service helps save unnecessary product from going to waste. A spoiled or distressed load can be a costly problem for ...
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Etihad Cargo will introduce an additional weekly Abu Dhabi–Shanghai freighter flight from 2 February. It increases the carrier’s weekly dedicated freighter flights between Shanghai and its Abu Dhabi hub to eight per week, and raises capacity out of Shanghai to 850 tons.
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The iCustoms platform has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-based customs software solution to help businesses comply with the Import Control System 2 (ICS2) which comes into force on 1 March.
From that date, all economic operators based outside the EU that move goods to or via the European Union by air ...
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UK-based cargo management company Magma Aviation has transported over plastic-free biodegradable 1,000kg flip flops free for the Sea Sense non-profit group.
Sea Sense produces the flip flops to help fund its efforts to clean up plastics in the oceans. It works with grassroots organisations and communities in Sierra Leone, Kenya and ...
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XPO has appointed David Picking to lead the company's technology organisation in the UK and Ireland. He has more than three decades of technology leadership experience in the retail, pharmaceutical, leisure, and logistics sectors. Prior to XPO, he served as chief information officer – EMEIA for Likewize, a global technology ...
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Logistics UK has objected new fines for UK hauliers found to be carrying clandestine migrants or crossing the border with an unsecured vehicle, imposed by the Government in a new bill on 16 January.
Senior policy manager, Chris Yarsley, said that the new penalty of up to £6,000 could deter EU ...
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DFDS has shipped a 45ft container containing 30,000 litres of clean drinking water to Ukraine donated by Fresh Water Norway in Brevik. The company has been collaborating with the charitable organization Caritas since the beginning of the war and has so far shipped over 200,000 liters of clean drinking water ...
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The use of ‘volumetric’ weight to determine the cost of shipments give rise to the most complaints by overseas package shippers, according to new research ParcelHero.
The broker says that instead of simply charging on the actual weight of a package, international carriers bill items based on the combined size and ...
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