Chris Lewis

A hive of activity on the Thames

DP World and Thames Freeport have broken ground on The Hive, a £13m amenity and innovation hub at London Gateway Logistics Park. The 29,000sq ft site will be a focal point for local businesses, employee training and community engagement, offering flexible meeting rooms and a dedicated training and innovation skills centre, alongside a gym, two sports pitches and food and drink facilities. It will provide over 100 days of industrial and employability ... [+]

Menzies makes the Cargo iQ grade

Airline service company Menzies Aviation has achieved Cargo iQ certification, following completion of a quality audit. It worked to align its global cargo operations with Cargo iQ’s globally recognised Master Operating Plan (MOP), the industry’s standard framework for end-to-end shipment planning and performance measurement. The MOP defines key milestones across ... [+]

Firms line up to sponsor Generation Logistics

New companies that have signed up to sponsor the next year of the Generation Logistics awareness campaign, which aims to promote career opportunities for young people in the sector, are the Association of Pallet Networks, the British Ports Association, DHL Supply Chain, Maersk, Ministry of Defence and SEGRO. They join existing ... [+]

Geodis gets fire-fighting choppers to their next mission

Geodis relocated 25 firefighting helicopters from Palma del Río in Córdoba, Spain to the port of San Antonio in Chile for Pegasus Aero Group. between September and early December. As wildfire seasons grow closer together, the forwarding and logistics company ensures the on-time shipment of the aircraft every year between operational ... [+]

Five more years for Scandi space-sharing deal

DFDS and CLdN are to extend their space charter agreement on the Zeebrugge-Gothenburg route for a further five years and to increase freight capacity.DFDS and CLdN operate two freight ferries on the route and this will be  increased with more lane metres, improved flexibility and broadening the service to include more ... [+]

Get ready for new STCs, urges BIFA

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is urging its members to ensure they are fully prepared to implement its updated Standard Trading Conditions (STC) from 1 January 2026. The revised STC, unveiled in September, replace the version last updated in 2021and  have been developed in response to significant changes in the ... [+]

Port of LA heads for third-best year

The Port of Los Angeles handled 782,249TEU in November, down 12% on last year’s elevated levels. But with one month left in the year, the Port has handled 9,447,731TEU, 1% more than in 2024, it adds. Executive director Gene Seroka said that despite trade uncertainty, Los Angeles would finish 2025 ... [+]

Fargo buys Intermodal Manager

Freight software company Fargo has acquired Bankside Systems, creator of the Intermodal Manager Cloud-based operating system for inland terminals, depots and intermodal hubs. As part of the acquisition, the platform will be rebranded as Fargo TERM,  sitting alongside Fargo’s Fargo TOPS (Transport Operations) and Fargo YARD (Yard and Gate Coordination).solutions. It ... [+]

Prestwick profits up again

Glasgow Prestwick Airport has returned a £3.5m operating profit for the year to 31 March 2025, up £300,000 from the previous year. It has already achieved its annual operating target in the first six months to September 2025. In the last 18 months the Airport has reinvested £10m in the airfield, ground services ... [+]

Europa puts in the hours to keep cross-Channel freight moving

Europa Road says it put in over 200 additional man-hours to minimise disruption after repeated outages in France’s new Delta I/E customs system. Since its permanent rollout in the last quarter of 2025, Delta I/E has suffered frequent downtime, extending transit times from two to as long as six days and ... [+]

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