Chris Lewis
United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) chief executive Clare Bottle officially opened Scottish-based logistics company Bullet Expres’s new 67,000sq ft storage centre at Westway Park on 10 October.
Bullet Express Westway Storage Centre has storage space for 12,500 pallets and easy access to both the M8 and Glasgow Airport.
It will boost the company’s storage and distribution capacity by 30%.
Managing director, John McKail, said: “We’re proud to be able to give Clare Bottle, ...
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Rotterdam-based intermodal operator Samskip has acquired a “significant shareholding” in UK haulier Humber Port Logistics (HPL).
HPL principally serves ports on the River Humber. While making use of synergies and resources under its new ownership structure to grow and add services to its portfolio, HPL will continue to operate independently, said ...
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The British International Freight Association says that 26 forwarding companies have been shortlisted as finalists for the nine service categories of the 34th Freight Service Awards, with 12 individuals making the finalist shortlists in the Apprentice of the Year and Young Freight Forwarder categories.
They are:
Air Cargo Services Award, sponsored by ...
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Intermodal transport company Samskip estimates that it will make 45,000 tonnes of additional CO2 emissions savings before the year is out following its agreement with GoodFuels
The company has signed a new agreement with the fuel supplier commiting four of its container ships to run on marine grade bio-residual fuels.
The ‘drop-in’ ...
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Portsmouth International Port has now switched on 888 panels of its solar generation project, a third of the eventual 2,660 total.
The scheme has been managed by Portsmouth City Council's in-house energy services team, supported by Portsmouth International Port's engineering department.
Installation began in February 2022 by specialist contractors Custom Solar, and ...
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UPS France has opened its new 3,000sq m international hub at Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport in France. The €12 million (£10.5 million) investment complements the international road platform and the delivery centre also located in the city’s Jonage region.
UPS has been present at Lyon Airport since 1985. The new building, ...
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Parcels firm DPDgroup is to use Eurora Solutions’ platform to enhance its quality and compliance processes and reduce the cost of customs processing. The group, which delivers over 8.4 million parcels a day worldwide will use the artificial intelligence/machine learning-backed platform to automate the allocation of product classification (HS) codes ...
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Cargo First, Bournemouth Airport’s dedicated cargo handling service, has brought its on-site customs bonded warehouse facilities fully in-house. Cargo First previously worked with a global logistics partner to handle customs processing but says it now has full control over the whole cargo process, from offloading aircraft through to processing, onward ...
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Port of Rotterdam freight volume in the first nine months of 2022 was almost the same as last year at 351 million tonnes (+0.3%) but container traffic decreased, especially as a result of the loss of trade with Russia. Considerably higher volumes of coal and LNG were also imported as ...
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DFDS has won a new five-year contract to operate the Newhaven-Dieppe route on behalf of the French authority, the Syndicat Mixte de Promotion de l’Activité Transmanche (SMPAT), from 1 January 2023. The Danish company has operated the service since 2012 and will now enter the third contract period. It currently ...
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