Chris Lewis
Sortsea operator Unifeeder has partnered with Hamburg port community system operator DAKOSY to offer an alternative to truck transfers between terminals at the German gateway.
The venture involves the CTA, CTT, CTB and Eurogate terminals and while south-west terminal will also be included shortly.
Unifeeder hopes to ultimately switch 50% of its transhipment operations from trucks to feeder carriers. During a three-month pilot phase, the carrier transferred about 50 containers per month. ...
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The Government introduced an Electronic Trade Documents Bill on 12 October. The legislation aims to end the need for paper-based trading documents and will include the bill of and bills of exchange by modernising old legislation such as the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 and the Carriage of Goods by ...
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DB Schenker has opened a third renewable-powered warehouse in Dubai. Following the opening of DLC 1 and DLC 2 warehouses, DLC 3 concludes the company's expansion in the UAE. DLC 3 is a 35,000 square meters. warehouse, fully powered by solar energy, is temperature-controlled and offers space for 90,000 Euro ...
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AP Moller-Maersk and its Ethiopian partner, Freighters International have opened a consolidation centre in Modjo Dry Port, aimed at apparel and lifestyle customers. It offers a range of warehousing and distribution services, along with first mile delivery, consolidation, cargo fulfilment and supply chain management solutions.
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Maersk has inaugurated a new Chicago air freight gateway near O’Hare Airport offering direct planeside offloading with immediate transfers. The new facility also serves Maersk’s air cargo hub at nearby Rockford International Airport. The new facility is a bonded container freight station (CFS) with and operates as a US Transportation Security ...
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Colombia’s Avianca Cargo has become the first airline in the Americas certified by the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Fresh program.
IATA representatives officially presented the certificate to the carrier at Miami International Airport (MIA) on 13 October. Miami and Bogota are the airline’s ...
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Intermodal carrier Samskip and Hector Rail have started a three-times weekly block train service connecting Duisburg and Rostock in response to requests for more multimodal capacity between Germany, Sweden and Finland.
The all-electric train links the Duisburg Hohenbudberg terminal and the Rostock Trimodal terminal where ro-ro connections are available.
It opens ...
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Global Critical Logistics’ Rock-it Global has signed on to the US SmartWay sustainability program.
SmartWay is a collaboration between the US Environmental Protection Agency andindustry to provide a framework to assess the environmental and energy efficiency of supply chains.
The SmartWay program will support Rock-it by providing a comprehensive system and tools ...
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South Africa’s celebrated cricket ground, Wanderers Stadium, will now be officially known as the DP World Wanderers Stadium after the global logistics and ports company signed a naming rights and sponsorship deal that includes the DP World Gauteng Lions men’s and women’s cricket teams. DP World aims to utilise the ...
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CEVA Logistics is expanding its fleet of electric vehicles operated for sports retailer Decathlon in Thailand. Three electric vans and two electric trucks are expected to reduce annual CO2 emissions by more than 100,000 kilograms.
CMA CGM Group-owned CEVA first began supporting Decathlon in Thailand in 2021 when the ground fleet ...
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