Chris Lewis
Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has confirmed an order for a third batch of autonomous trucks from Shanghai Westwell Technology. It will increase its fleet to 100 vehicles and builds on the successful introduction of autonomous trucks into mixed-traffic container terminal operations at Felixstowe, the first deployment of its kind in Europe.
The new trucks will incorporate enhanced sensor and perception technology, including 128-line LiDAR and advanced camera systems, providing a ...
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Logistics software company Cargonerds has appointed Dennis Albers as managing director, succeeding Conrad Franchi, who will now focus fully on his role as chief digital officer at German-owned forwarder Röhlig Logistics, from which Cargonerds was spun off in 2021. Following various positions at Röhlig Logistics, Dennis Albers has been responsible ...
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Dachser has officially opened a refrigerated transit terminal for food logistics at its Freiburg site, along with further capacity for industrial and consumer goods.
The food logistics transit terminal is about 3,200sq m and has a temperature range of 2 to 7 degrees C for items such as meat, sausages, dairy ...
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Chief executive of the Port of Dover, Doug Bannister has written to the UK Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee warning critical incident could occur as the summer holiday gets underway.
He called on the Government to negotiate with the EU to defer full implementation of the new Entry/Exit System (EES) border ...
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Qatar Airways has moved swiftly to rebut suggestions that it was operating its aircraft dangerously after one of its aircraft appeared on social media carrying out a dangerous low pass at Horseshoe Bay Resort Jet Center in Texas on 24 June. It pointed out that the aircraft, a newly converted ...
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Brittany Ferries is to close its Portsmouth to Le Havre route from October and Poole to Cherbourg in November but a daily Portsmouth to Cherbourg will operate in its place.
The Barfleur, which has served the latter route since1992 will be sold, along with the 2007-built Cotentin which runs Cherbourg to ...
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Companies are increasingly routing cargo through Türkiye to Gulf markets in response to geopolitical uncertainty and disruption to traditional shipping routes, DP World told the Türkiye Maritime Summit in Istanbul on 2 July.
The ports and logistics company said this was reinforcing Türkiye’s position as a strategic trade and logistics hub ...
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The Airforwarders Association (AfA) says it is seriously concerned about changes to the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Direct Air Waybill (DAWB) framework, warning that its members could face significant new legal and insurance liabilities.
The revised framework, which came into effect on 1 July, could alter the contractual relationship between ...
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Swire Shipping has opened a branch office in Dili, capital of Timor-Leste, a south-east island nation that lies about 500km north of Australia. It will be led by Darry Tan, who has spent the past two years in Timor-Leste working closely with Swire Shipping's agency partner, CEVA Logistics. Swire Shipping ...
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The CMA CGM Notre Dame was named in Le Havre, the latest vessel in the CMA CGM fleet, the largest container vessel operating under the French flag and the largest LNG-powered box ship in the world. She is nearly 400 metres long, 61 metres wide and has a capacity of ...
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