Chris Lewis

Forwarder helps support refugee youngsters

Austrian forwarder Cargo-partner is supporting an aid project for Ukrainian children and young people in Moldova. The international transport and logistics provider is working with Jugend Eine Welt and their project partner Salesians of Don Bosco to help children and young people in Moldova who have been displaced from Ukraine with educational activities to help them better cope with trauma, aid their integration and provide stability during difficult times. The Salesians ... [+]

Trans.eu keeps it confidential

The Trans.eu logistics platform has developed a private exchange allowing forwarders to invite hauliers to their own secure and private digital space. Private Freight Exchange aims to speed up communication between forwarders and hauliers that have already established a positive working relationship. Trans.eu chief executive Aleksandra Marszałek says the exchange ... [+]

Switching to CDS made easy with new BIFA checklists

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has prepared two documents that its members can send to their customers in order to collect the information that is required from them and which highlights the additional complexity of completing a CDS declaration compared with the old Chief system. The first document covers the ... [+]

New crane to boost P&O Zeebrugge-Hull sailings

P&O Ferries has doubled its loading capacity at its Zeebrugge hub with a secondlift-on, lift-off crane. It will also enable P&O Ferries to increase frequency on its Hull to Zeebrugge route to six weekly sailings. It also operates routes from Zeebrugge to Tilbury and to Teesport. Managing director of P&O Ferries Freight ... [+]

Shippers’ group demands action on liner block exemption

Ten trade organisations, including the Global Shippers Forum and the Clecat and Fiata forwarders’ groups are demanding an immediate start to the review of European Union’s Consortia Block Exemption for the industry, in a letter to the Commission The regulation exempts container shipping lines from many of the checks and balances ... [+]

Rotterdam trade up, despite Russia embargo

The Port of Rotterdam said on 22 July that its total cargo throughput was 0.8% higher in the first half of the year (233.5 million tonnes) than in the same period in 2021 (231.6 million tonnes), despite the war in Ukraine. Container transport to and from Russia has come to a ... [+]

Dover blames French police for five-hour queues

The Port of Dover says it is “deeply frustrated” at the “woefully inadequate” resource at the French border which has led to long queues on the approaches to the cross-Channel gateway. The Port was reported by the BBC to have declared a critical incident as cars and trucks queued for five ... [+]

Port Everglades breaks May and June records

Port Everglades exceeded its record May and June cargo volumes with new linrer  services from India, Turkey and Greece. Unlike the downturn typically seen at the end of the melon shipping season, there was a spike in May and June thanks to new MSC services from South Asia and the Mediterranean, ... [+]

Tower Cold Chain wins more investment funds

Pharmaceutical temperature-controlled specialist Tower Cold Chain has secured a £6.75million from Investec bank, following an initial injection of £6million into the business two years ago. As well as manufacturing more stock and expanding into new hubs to fuel rising demand, Tower will also invest in digitalisation and implement the latest digital ... [+]

Felixstowe activity at a glance

Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has launched a new customer information platform, OCEAN (Online Container Enquiry Analytics Notifications). It allows port users to track up to 200 containers simultaneously and can give estimated and actual vessel arrival times and when containers are landed, cleared for collection, booked to road or ... [+]

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