Chris Lewis
A group of ten transport and freight associations including CLECAT, FIATA, the Global Shippers Forum and the European Shippers Council have written to European Commission vice-president Magrethe Vestager calling for change to the legislative framework in which the container shipping lines are able to cooperate and for the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation to be reformed before it is extended.
It follows the Commission’s call for evidence as part of its review ...
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The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has revealed launch customers for its BlueSky sustainability verification program.
Following its launch at its March Executive Summit, it ran a successful pilot program with airline and ground handling companies.
The TIACA BlueSky program, open to the entire industry, not just TIACA members, is now ready ...
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Customs solution provider C4T is advising traders with the Netherlands that the country is switching from the AGS system to the highly automated Douane-aangiften Management System (DMS) system. It will be among the first EU member states to introduce a real-time declaration process in place of periodic reporting in line ...
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DHL’s European road freight arm, DHL Freight is offering a GoGreen Plus service to reduce CO2 emissions through carbon ‘insetting’ - a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases through investments in green road transportation technologies and fuels. In contrast to offsetting, which helps to compensate carbon ...
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Toga Group has been named as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies in the Deloitte Ireland awards, in association with Bank of Ireland. The global audit firm said that Toga, which comprises Toga Freight and Toga Customs, had demonstrated superior business performance for the third consecutive year.
This is the first ...
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Europa Worldwide Group says its profits were up from £3.6m in 2020 to £10m from £3.6m in 2020 to £10m in the 2021 financial year ending 31 December. Turnover was £276m. Air and sea forwarding grew by 14.9% and 6.6% respectively.
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The Suez Canal Economic Zone today has signed a contract with supply chain services company Agility to develop and operate a customs and logistics centre. Agility will work with SCZone to automate customs processes and operations in the Zone, linking customs departments and government agencies concerned with inspection work. Agility ...
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Samskip is using Value Maritime’s ‘Filtree’ gas cleaning to clean up the exhaust from its Samskip Innovator and Samskip Endeavour container vessels. A gas cleaning unit behind the funnel pumps recovered CO2 to a battery housed in containers carried on deck.
For ships running on conventional marine fuels, the Filtree system ...
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The International Transport Workers’ Federation says it has helped prevent P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite from speaking at the Interferry Conference in Seattle on 3 October.
It says that the P&O Ferries chief, who controversially sacked 786 seafarers at the DP World-owned company in March, has dropped off the panel ...
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Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) nationwide cargo handling network in the UK has earned new contracts with All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Tunisian carrier, Nouvelair.
ANA has signed a three-year agreement with WFS to provide offline cargo reception points at 11 regional airports: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, ...
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