Chris Lewis
Peel Ports Group chief executive, Claudio Veritiero has urged the government to partner with port and maritime companies to help meet its objectives on levelling-up, net zero and economic growth.
Claudio Veritiero, who took over at Peel Ports in April, says that the sector is ideally placed to provide benefits and opportunities across these national priorities, especially in the wake of Covid-19 and Brexit.
Peel Ports published a report on 18 July ...
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DP World’s Imperial Logistics arm has marked 50 years of operations at the port of Fürth in Germany. The port is a handling centre for construction materials and agricultural goods for the region.
The inland port handled its first goods via the Main-Danube canal on 15 July 1972.
Today, Fürth is mainly ...
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EV Cargo has made two appointments following its acquisition of Netherlands-headquartered Fast Forward Freight in March. The latter’s former chief executive Marc Terpstra has been appointed as vice president Europe at EV Cargo while former Fast Forward Freight chief financial officer Robert Van Breugel has taken on the role of ...
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Runcorn-headquartered forwarder Maltacourt has opened a new office in Birmingham. It will be led by Kelly Taylor who joins the Maltacourt board of directors.
It follows opening of a new office in Felixstowe in June and Manchester at the beginning of the year.
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Austrian-based forwarder Cargo-partner has made an offer to acquire one third of its partner Sim Cargo, a provider of smart groupage solutions. Cargo-partner has been part of the groupage network and a system partner of Sim Cargo for many years now, especially for distribution in Central and Eastern Europe. Should ...
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European forwarders’ group CLECAT says it welcomes International Transport Forum’s call for more regulatory attention on the door-to-door container market.
The ITF has published an independent report on the performance of maritime container supply chains, bringing together data it has collected over the last couple of years on the ocean carriers’ ...
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The total throughput of Port of Antwerp-Bruges was 147.2 million tonnes in the first six months of this year, an increase of just 1.4% compared to the same period last year.
The slight growth came despite a decline in the container segment due to ongoing global congestion problems.
Container throughput was down ...
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It goes without saying, of course, that chimpanzees should not be pets or forced to live with humans. Unfortunately, many of chimpanzee orphans at the Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection (LCRP) sanctuary are victims of the illegal pet trade, their mothers killed by poachers and now requiring around the clock ...
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Europa Worldwide Group’s Europa Road arm is offering a part-load service for shipments that are too big for groupage but too small to warrant a full load. Europa's road freight network ordinarily accommodates one to six UK standard pallets, but the part-load export service will take consignments of 6-20 pallets. ...
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Cool Chain Association members have completed the first stage of a project to test a new label for perishables shipments, in partnership with Challenge Group.
The trial, which involved handlers and warehouse operators, tested the benefits of the new label, which included details of both commodity and temperature requirements on packaging ...
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