Chris Lewis

Shipping giant teams up with local football heroes

CMA CGM Group is to be the jersey sponsor of local football side Olympique de Marseille for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.   The Group, which is a global player in sea, land and logistics but, like their footballing partners, are now pretty good in the air too, will feature on the front of all OM jerseys and will also have a visible presence at the Orange Vélodrome stadium, at the ... [+]

Port haulier joins Palletforce

EV Cargo’s Palletforce network has recruited Southampton-based JMCL Freightways to cover postcodes around Alton, Petersfield and Alresford. JMCL operates from some of the UK’s busiest ports, including Southampton, Felixstowe, Tilbury, Liverpool and Immingham and has recently diversified into palletised freight delivery. The network has also recruited Express Transport for the ... [+]

Air Partner academy aims to bridge aviation skills gap

Aviation services provider, Air Partner has launched a Broker Academy to develop the next generation of experts in cargo, private jets and group charter. The new scheme provides recruits with three-months’ training before assigning them to a six-month placement in one of the three Air Partner teams,. During this time, trainees ... [+]

Abu Dhabi Airports joins pharma group

Abu Dhabi Airports has joined the Pharma.Aero global network for life science and medtech manufacturers, as a strategic member representing the Middle East.It said the collaboration would build on Abu Dhabi’s growth as a global healthcare and life sciences hub, and the success of the HOPE Consortium, an Abu Dhabi-led ... [+]

Box ship fires are everyone’s problem, says TT Club

TT Club is calling for everyone in the supply chain to take responsibility for container ship fires. With serious fires occurring every 60 days on average, the freight and logistics insurer is once more urging a more comprehensive approach to halting the trend. “There were significant lessons coming from the sad ... [+]

Seafarers’ Wages Bill goes to House of Commons

The Seafarers' Wages Bill, introduced in the wake of P&O Ferries’ mass sackings of workers earlier in the year, has passed to the House of Commons for examination. It follows completion of its third reading in the House of Lords on 7 November. The legislation seeks to improve pay for ... [+]

SAF for all at Schenker

DB Schenker is making biofuel available for all its air freight following its purchase of over 11,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Customers can choose SAF for their air transport anywhere in the world and independent of the type of aircraft or airline used. It is possible to avoid ... [+]

Maersk to open Asian sites

AP Moller-Maersk has broken ground on a 100,000sq m warehouse in Calamba, near Manila in the Philippines. The highly-automated site will have a 75,000-pallet storage capacity and is expected to be completed by the end of 2023. It is also building a new 100,000sq ft facility in Chattogram, Bangladesh for ... [+]

Hapag-Lloyd profits up but outlook uncertain

Hapag-Lloyd said that its group profit climbed to US$14.7 billion in the first nine months of 2022 thanks to higher freight rates. However, it added that the market environment has deteriorated in the third quarter with falling spot rates and rising costs. Transport volumes were on a par with the ... [+]

Brittany freight shows signs of Covid hangover

Brittany Ferries said freight traffic has struggled to recover to pre-Covid 2019 levels, in its annual figures for the 12 months to the end of October 2022. Freight was down 27% on UK/France routes, and 22% on UK/Spain. The relatively small Ireland/France and Ireland/Spain markets showed gains of 606% and 172% ... [+]

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