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Ceva’s team on its marks for Paris 2024

CMA CGM and its Ceva Logistics arm expect to deliver 1.3 million items of furniture and over 900,000 pieces of sports equipment to Paris Olympics venues. As the official logistics partner for the Games, the CMA CGM Group is mobilizing its 180,000 employees to help meet the challenge of organizing the world's biggest sporting event. Working closely with the games organizing committee, Ceva Logistics is offering a full range of solutions for ... [+]

Etihad adds cool dollies in Abu Dhabi

Etihad Cargo has added cool dollies to its Abu Dhabi tarmac transportation fleet for pharma and perishable shipments. The specialised containers offer a closed, temperature-controlled system to ensure the reliable and seamless transport between aircraft and the cool chain warehouse. They can be set to between ... [+]

XPO lady drivers get together

XPO is holding its fourth annual Female Drivers Forum today at the company’s national distribution centre in Crick, Northamptonshire. As in previous years, all XPO Logistics female drivers are invited to attend the Forum, which is designed to provide a safe space to bring any matters ... [+]

Irish Sea’s newest operator celebrates a year in business

Dunaverty has celebrated a successful first year as operators of the lifeline ferry to Rathlin Island, which lies about three miles to the north of Ballycastle off the coast of Antrim. The operator set sail within two days after the previous operator stopped the service. Since ... [+]

Dublin-Liverpool overture for Stena’s Bore Song

Stena Line has introduced its new, larger freight vessel, Bore Song, on the Dublin – Liverpool (Birkenhead) route. It will increase capacity on the route by 30%. Stena Line’s Dublin-Liverpool freight service has operated since 15 February  with cover shipsserving customers temporarily whilst the company searched ... [+]

Russell Group to buy Freightliner’s Coatbridge terminal – updated

Russell Group’s John G Russell arm is to acquire Freightliner’s Coatbridge Intermodal Rail Terminal near Glasgow and will set up a new entity, Russell RailRoad. The site is next to John G Russell’s own Coatbridge base. The two locations will be run as separate entities ... [+]

Unsworth clients see Border Control issues at first hand

Unsworth recently organised an exclusive tour of Defra’s Inland Border Clearance facility at Sevington for almost 100 of the forwarder’s clients and other stakeholders. The event, which was held in association with Ashford Port Health, was designed specifically to provide first hand information about the next ... [+]

Shipping partners order heavy lifters

CY Shipping and BigLift Shipping are to add two heavy transport vessels (HTVs) to their fleet, bringing it to six vessels. The first of the Chinese-built ships will be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2025 and the second in mid-2026.They are designed to transport ... [+]

The Big Brown goes green in Cambridge

UPS has opened a micro hub in Cambridge, the first of its kind in the UK. It allows electric assisted four-wheeled cycles to deliver packages, reducing emissions and congestion in the city. It is housed in a converted shipping container and will serve as a central dispatch ... [+]

Dachser launches Smart Border solution

Dachser has launched two Smart Border Connect services, connect40 and connect42. They provide UK exporters, shipping on DDP incoterms, with frictionless access to Dachser’s European groupage network.Since Brexit Dachser has created many bespoke customer DDP solutions but Smart border connect is designed to give UK ... [+]

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