Chris Lewis
Egypt’s Suez Canal Container Terminal is to be expanded with a new 955 metre berth and 510,000sq m of additional container yard under a deal signed between the Suez Canal Economic Zone and APMT. The current berth length of the 4m TEU a year terminal is 2,400m and yard capacity is 1.2 million square meters.
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Engineers from Associated British Ports’ Immingham team have completed factory acceptance testing of three new mobile harbour cranes.
The Liebherr 420s, which cost £9.7 million with an additional £500,000 for Nemag grabs, will be arriving later in November from Rostock in northern Germany.
They use a hybrid system which comprises of ...
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Bertelsmann-owned Arvato Supply Chain Solutions has opened its first warehouse in Australia at Villawood, Greater Sydney. The 4,000sq m multi-client building has a capacity of over 3,000 pallet spaces and meets the highest Tapa A security level. Solar panels are installed on the roof and it is equipped with LED ...
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Booking shipper owned containers (SOCs) can still be challenging, according to a survey by Container xChange. The research, carried out in partnership with Copenhagen Business School, covered 137 freight forwarders and NVOCCs and found that over 80% still use email and phone to get quotations and place slot bookings.
Container xChange ...
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JuiSea Shipping is to operate a regular service from Ghent importing bulk orange juice to the UK through Portland Port.
It follows the completion of successful trials at Portland’s 50 Tonne Crane Berth, recently refurbished to bring it back into working order.
There will be over 30 shipments a year by the ...
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UPS has completed acquisition of healthcare logistics provider Bomi Group. UPS Healthcare will add temperature-controlled facilities in 14 countries, and 3,000 highly-skilled employees to its team in Latin America and Europe.
The company will operate as Bomi Group, a UPS Company. Chief executive Marco Ruini will join UPS Healthcare, whose customers ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has introduced a weekly A321 freighter flight to Evenes Airport (EVE) in northern Norway under a joint project between salmon producer Salmosped and exporter Nordlaks.
Evenes Airport near Narvik is the gateway to the Lofoten Islands, a major sourvce of fish and seafood. The new connection allows fresh produce ...
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Many logistics companies are involved in the movement of fashion goods but not every operator has initiated its own clothing label. However, DHL and Chinese fashion brand FMACM, have launched an exclusive ‘One Planet’ clothing collection.
It advocates sustainable fashion and includes eye-catching sweatshirts, hoodies and T-shirts that feature DHL’s distinctive ...
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Italian-owned private rail operator TX Logistik AG - part of the Mercitalia Logistics (FS Italiane Group) – has been operating a service between Istanbul and Cologne since June 2022.
It has launched a connection between the cities between the Halkali Terminal in Istanbul and Curtici in Romania three times a week, ...
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Shipping and logistics provider GAC Group is to open an office in Taiwan’s second-largest port, Taichung. The port has constructed several tailor-made wharves to serve the offshore wind energy industry as the country looks to become the leading provider of offshore wind power in the Asia-Pacific region. GAC already has ...
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