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Freeport East builds for the future

Turkish sustainable building products firm Assan Panel will put its first UK manufacturing facility at Gateway 14, part of Freeport East. It will create around 100 jobs in Stowmarket and bring an investment of up to £45m. The new plant is scheduled to go into operation by Autumn 2025. [+]

Royal seal of approval for Transaid at Multimodal

The Princess Royal will be attending Multimodal 2024 on 13 June in her capacity as patron of international development charity Transaid.   Transaid and Multimodal have a deep and long-standing relationship forged over the last 15 years. Many of Multimodal’s clients are corporate sponsors of Transaid ... [+]

Hapag-Lloyd offers dry box tracking

Hapag-Lloyd has launched ‘Live Position’, its first dry container tracking tool. It follows the fitting of tracking devices to over two thirds of the fleet, with the remaining units expected to follow suit in summer. Users can search by container, booking number or in batches ... [+]

AGI signs Scandi deal

UK freight forwarder AGI Global Logistics has gone into partnership with Sweden’s Scandinavian Shipping & Logistics. SSL is active in forwarding, customs clearance, project shipping, liner agency and logistics, including temperature-controlled pharma. It has 65 employees a headquarters in Gothenburg and offices in Norrköping, Jönköping, ... [+]

Frank Knight to market ABP in South Wales

Associated British Ports (ABP) has appointed global property consultancy Knight Frank as joint marketing agents for its five ports in South Wales. Knight Frank joins property agency Jenkins Best in promoting business opportunities and attracting investment and occupiers for Barry, Cardiff, Newport, Port Talbot and ... [+]

Gebrüder Weiss upgrades in Budapest

Austrian logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has enlarged its logistics facility at Dunaharaszti near Budapest. The new complex covers 10,000sq ft including a high-bay warehouse. It will handle all home delivery services for the greater Budapest area with inbound storage, material flow and picking largely automated. [+]

Managers buy Maze Logistics

Suffolk container and pallet haulage firm Maze Logistic Solutions has been sold to a management team led by Ryan Jiggens. It has also introduced general haulage, LCL and specialist services, and has opened a new truck park at Ipswich port. [+]

Yusen boosts disabled workers’ chances

Yusen Logistics (UK) is partnering with the Kaleidoscope Group UK, which supports people with disabilities to gain employment via an incubator programme. Candidates on the incubator programme for Yusen Logistics are given training to help them maximise their chances of employment and to find the ... [+]

Rhenus opens sustainable warehouses in Nuneaton

Rhenus Warehousing Solutions officially opened its ‘Rhenus Campus’, development in Nuneaton on 18 April. The development is certified BREEAM Outstanding for environmental protection, and consists of two warehouses, measuring a total of one million square feet  - one of 210,000sq ft, and the second 771,000sq feet. The ... [+]

TT Club offers toolkit to tweak ESG policy

Freight insurer TT Club has produced a toolkit to help transport companies develop a Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) policies. It provides signposts to strategies and solutions to challenges such as emissions calculation, reduction and reporting. The toolkit will develop over time to build a resource ... [+]

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