Chris Lewis
IKEA is making home deliveries to customers in Paris by boat and electric vehicles, says the Haropa port authority. Orders are prepared at a distribution centre in the Gennevilliers inland port on the river Seine in the northwest of the city and then transported in specialised containers by boat to Bercy harbout in the city centre for loading onto electric vehicles for the last kilometre to recipients.
IKEA France has developed ...
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Lufthansa Group’s time:matters rapid logistics arm has opened a tation in Casablanca and extended its same-day network to North Africa. Casablanca is served 17 times a week with direct flights from Frankfurt and Paris, able to carry shipments up to 300kg.
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The DIY and home and garden improvement market received a significant boost during the pandemic while supply chains for the industry are more global than almost any other. Products are also very seasonal, while there has been an appreciable swing towards e-commerce. Dachser DIY logistics handles nearly eight million shipments ...
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Birmingham forwarder Metro Shipping has joined Air France KLM Martinair Cargo‘s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) programme, the first in the UK to do so. Metro managing director Grant Liddell said: “Although it is currently early in the switch to full SAF on cargo flights, this will gather pace over the ...
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Air broker Chapman Freeborn, part of Avia Solutions Group, has appointed Andy Hudson as regional chief executive for the APAC region. He has been in the aviation industry for over 21 years, and his first charter broker position was in 2006. He then moved to aviation aircraft acquisitions and aircraft ...
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The reinstatement of the Operation Brock traffic management system on the M20 for coastbound traffic on 13 December will provide more certainty for those moving goods across the UK border said Logistics UK.
However, following disruption during previous implementations of the system, in December 2021 and during the summer holidays, due ...
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Shortsea carrier CLdN is to operate a new twice weekly schedule from Santander to Dublin from January and at the same time Spanish cargo for the UK market will be transhipped in Dublin onto the regular Seatruck Ferries service to Liverpool.
Seatruck Ferries, recently acquired by CLdN, will also deploying an ...
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Hamburg-based Container xChange has launched xChange Insights, a data-driven solution that enables companies in to access live prices, one-way leasing rates and their development across 130 global locations. It aims to reduce the time that traders, forwarders, and NVOCCs spend in keeping their container and leasing rates up to date. ...
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Air Charter Service has opened a new office in the country, in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. The broker’s Paris office has grown into one of its most important following its opening 13 years ago. The office in Aix-en-Provence will be headed by Caroline Bourge, who joined ACS over ...
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The 7LFreight online airfreight platform has launched less-than-truckload (LTL) eBooking on US carriers. The company, part of the Freightos Group says it can offer rate procurement on over 2,500 cartage agents as well as 100 airlines.
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