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Logistics UK has welcomed the government announcement of over £100 million of funding for research and development into greener aviation. Senior policy manager, Alexandra Herdman, said: “Logistics UK welcomes the additional financial support announced by the government to develop leading-edge green aerospace projects as the sector continues on its journey to net zero. The aviation sector is notoriously hard to decarbonise and investment in innovative technology will help reduce the ...
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UPS has signed an agreement to acquire Mexican express delivery company Estafeta, following a commercial agreement between the two companies in 2020. Estafeta is a 45-year old privately owned provider of integrated logistics solutions with an extensive domestic network. The combined companies will offer small ...
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UK cargo airline One Air is due to take delivery of a third Boeing 747-400F by the end of August.
One Air operated its inaugural flight in July 2023 and has since provided regular weekly full charter capacity between Asia and Europe as well as ad ...
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DHL Express has partnered with Google, to use its Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) GoGreen Plus service. The initiative includes express shipping of Google devices across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, and is part of Google's push to decarbonizes its air cargo transportation.
Following the DHL Era ...
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US forwarders now have book and rate access to nearly 70% of domestic air cargo volume on the on 7LFreight by WebCargo platform, following the addition of American, Delta, and United alongside existing members FedEx and UPS.
Options available include instant rating and booking by both ...
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DoKaSch Temperature Solutions has opened new stations for its Opticooler packing solutions in Dublin and Miami. The Dublin station will initially have capacity for 40 containers. Ireland is home to manufacturing facilities for the world's top ten pharmaceutical and biopharma companies and is the fifth-largest ...
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Europa Air & Sea’s Dubai office recently chartered an aircraft to transport exam papers from the UAE to Malawi.
The papers needed to be to the country’s National Examination Board, in time for July’s exams but the Abu Dhabi-based printer had experienced delays.
The forwarder also faced ...
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DHL Group has teamed up with green technology company Envision Group in a strategic partnership agreement to foster cooperation in logistics solutions and sustainability targets.
The partnership covers four main areas: logistics solutions, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), green energy and the joint development of a Net ...
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The CrowdStrike failure that led to global IT outages across the world on 19 July could have a longer-term impact on the logistics industry, says an airfreight rates expert.
While news channels reported on 22 July that many of the computers and other devices that had ...
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Getting an electric race car to move at up to 200mph is the easy bit. What can be far tougher is squeezing the last grams of CO2 emissions out of the supply chain that brings the Formula E championship to 132 races, 33 cities and ...
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