Chris Lewis
The industry is still struggling with challenges of the present, despite a recent fall in ocean rates Alphaliner, analyst Jan Tiedemann told a conference organised by German purchasing platform XStaff on 5 October.
He said that despite currently falling freight rates and a temporary calming of the market in light of the uncertain economic outlook, he sees the industry as far from being in safe waters. "Despite the downward ...
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Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) have backed the Forth Green Freeport bid saying it has the potential to generate up to 50,000 new green jobs and act as a catalyst for new clean technologies and renewable energy manufacturing
The bid proposal which was submitted in June 2022 to the Scottish ...
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Associated British Ports was due to open the doors on the historic Kasbah district in Grimsby on Saturday 22 October as part of this year’s Heritage Open Days, a event postponed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Kasbah got its name, not from trade between the Lincolnshire port ...
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Aer Lingus – part of the IAG Group of airlines - is to launch a new route between Dublin and Cleveland in Ohio in the summer 2023 season, the only nonstop route between Europe and the US city, reports the routes Online website. Flights from Dublin to Cleveland Hopkins International ...
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AP Moller Maersk’s intra-European logistics arm Sealand is launching a temperature-controlled rail service from Spain to the UK for temperature sensitive cargo including fruit and vegetables. There will initially be three weekly departures from Valencia to Barking in East London. The trains will carry also non-refrigerated cargo from the UK ...
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Hapag-Lloyd is to acquire 100 % of the shares of Chile-based terminal operator SM SAAM Ports and SM SAAM Logistic, for around US$1 billion, subject to regulatory approval. SM SAAM operates 10 terminals in six North, Central and South American countries with around 4,000 employees and a combined container throughput ...
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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 ...
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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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