Chris Lewis
ECS Group has appointed Steve Hughes as managing director for Globe Air Cargo (GAC) UK, replacing Michelle House, who retires at the end of this year after ten years with the company and 44 years in the industry.
Hughes joins Globe Air Cargo from Wexco Cargo GSSA after seven years as its managing director and, in a career that began in 1998, has worked for British Airways Cargo and Virgin Atlantic ...
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Awery Aviation Software has appointed Christian Gessner as business development manager and David Kerr as consultant.
Gessner (pictured, above) brings two decades of experience in air cargo, including the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and several aviation software providers.
Kerr (Pictured, below) has spent almost a decade at American Airlines, before moving ...
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Vienna Airport achieved a record 313,763 tonnes of cargo handled in 2025, up 5.3% on the previous year. Key drivers were the targeted expansion of long-haul services with additional belly-hold capacity, as well as strong growth in the e-commerce and pharmaceutical segments. The Vienna Pharma Handling Center also recorded a ...
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Future Forwarding has expanded its UK presence with a branch in Farnborough. It will support air, courier, road, rail, sea, and e-commerce movements, led by regional director Patrick Loffler, supported by operations manager, Damien Walmsley.
Founded in the UK in 1977 as a privately-owned, independent logistics provider, Future Forwarding expanded into ...
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Stena’s Line’s Stena Connecta freight vessel for the Belfast-Heysham route has arrived in Belfast Harbour and is due to go into commercial service on 23 January.
She joins sister vessel Stena Futura which went into service in October 2025 and together the two ships will offer an additional 40% freight capacity ...
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With the row raging between Europe and Europe over the future of Greenland, Logistics UK has urged politicians on both sides of the Atlantic to take a measured approach to trade and avoid destabilising global markets and supply chains.
US President Trump has vowed to slap tariffs on countries that oppose ...
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Launch of a ro ro service between the port of Roysth in Scotland and Dunkirk “is a question of when, not if,” the deputy chief executive of the French port, Daniel Deschodt told a press conference on 20 January.
Some regulatory hurdles still need to be overcome before the service can ...
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Misurata Free Zone (MFZ) in western Libya has signed a public–private partnership to modernize, manage, develop and expand the country’s main container gateway and most commercially active maritime hub. It is the first major PPP infrastructure project outside the energy sector.
MFZ will collaborate with Maha Capital Partners, an international infrastructure ...
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TV presenter, adventurer, author, and conservationist Steve Backshall announced nine winning companies and two outstanding individuals at the British International Freight Association’s 2025 Freight Service Awards in London on 15 January.
BIFA director general Steve Parker noted the high quality of all the finalists’ entries this year from the 33 freight ...
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DP World has set a new handling record at London Gateway, surpassing three million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) in 2025, thanks to the new fourth berth and additional Asia-Europe vessel calls by the Gemini Cooperation.
Growth has hit over 52% compared with 1.9 million TEU in 2024, and the port is ...
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