Chris Lewis
Antitrust authorities approved Hapag-Lloyd’s acquisition of a 49% minority stake in Italian terminal and transport operator Spinelli Group on 12 January, for an undisclosed amount. The remaining 51% of the shares in the corporate group remain in the hands of the Spinelli family. The parties have agreed to not disclose any financial details of the deal.
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The Scottish and UK governments have selected the Forth Green Freeport and Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport to become the country’s first Green Freeports.
The Forth Green Freeport consortium includes Forth Ports and its operations at sites at Leith, Grangemouth, Rosyth and Burntisland.
It says its proposal will generate up to ...
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Fraud is the biggest threat to cargo, says insurer the TT Club.
The Club says that the almost exclusive use of online facilities to process business transactions allows a myriad of fraudulent pursuits including payment fraud that involves existing mandates and impersonation of executives to procurement fraud featuring false invoicing.
Carrier fraud, ...
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The Multimodal Awards 2023 are now open for entries. This year two of the Awards categories, Road and 3PL, have been split to ensure that smaller firms also get the recognition they deserve during the voting stages.
Winners will be chosen by Multimodal newsletter readers and the exhibitors and visitors to ...
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DHL has renewed its contract with electric car race organisers, Formula E and DHL, with a multi-year partnership.
With 40 years of international motorsport experience, DHL is Formula E’s official founding partner helping to set up the inaugural race in Beijing in 2014. Since then, DHL has supported Formula E through ...
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German broker NEO Air Charter has appointed Ian Flett to the new position of regional sales manager, Nordic Region. He is based in Denmark. He speaks four languages and will promote the company’s services to forwarders and logistics service providers with customers in the industrial- , government- and humanitarian aid ...
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Stena Line has launched its second E-Flexer vessel, the Stena Ebba on the Karlskrona-Gdynia route. It follows the introduction of sister Stena Estelle in September 2022 on the same route.
Stena Ebba is one of the largest ferries in regular operations in the Baltic Sea. She is 240 metres long, and ...
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Logistics met the Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly on 11 January to discuss the impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol on NI trade, along with solutions to provide future trading certainty.
Head of trade and devolved policy at Logistics UK, Nichola Mallon, commented: “We emphasised the need for a negotiated outcome between ...
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Kenya-based Astral-aviation has switched its representation in Europe, United Kingdom (UK), and US from Network Airline Services to Air Logistics Group.
The carrier’s chief executive Sanjeev Gadhia said the new commercial partnership would allow it to offer more opportunities to its clients as well as increase market-share for its new perishables ...
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Magma Aviation, a subsidiary of broker Chapman Freeborn, has appointed James Gilliard as head of commercial.
He brings 20 years of aviation industry experience and joins the business after two and a half years at IAG Cargo in London as regional sales manager. Prior to that, he held a number of ...
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