Run by Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight and operating 24 hours a day and six days per week, departures will be from the fixed link group’s two terminals in Calais and Folkestone, with capacity initiall...
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Logistics UK welcomes changes to UK lorry driver testing process
Freight association says fresh plans to streamline qualification of new hauliers ‘show the government is now moving at pace towards a solution to the current driver shortage’. UK freight transp...
Leia mais »JD launches China-UK air cargo service
Chinese e-commerce giant adds its first regular freighter offering to Europe, further expanding its international logistics network following the addition of flights to the US and Thailand earlier thi...
Leia mais »Nordic Shipholding sells tanker fleet amid volatile market
Denmark-based shipowner Nordic Shipholding has put the company’s three remaining vessels up for sale after failing to find a merger partner. Since November 2020, the firm has held extensive discu...
Leia mais »Samsung Heavy bags order for LNG carrier duo
South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has secured a contract for the construction of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. The order has been placed by an undisclosed shipowne...
Leia mais »New logistics centre for disaster control to be set up at Leipzig
Flights carrying supplies to aid the fight against Covid-19 help drive record volumes for Leipzig/Halle Airport. The Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operation...
Leia mais »ONE signs up for new inland container tracking system to reduce carbon emissions
Ocean Network Express will use the PARIS Optimal Transport Planning Solution to optimise transport planning to reduce empty mileage and increase rail and barge use. Ocean Network Express (ONE) Inla...
Leia mais »Pressure grows in UK for driver-shortage visas
Logistics UK urges government to ‘prioritise the granting of 10,000 temporary work visas to encourage EU drivers to return to support the UK’s supply chain. UK freight transport association Log...
Leia mais »Ningbo’s Meishan terminal partially reopens
Three boxships entered the terminal over the weekend after days of waiting in anchorage, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence. THE blocked Meishan terminal in the major Chinese container port o...
Leia mais »Shipping lines reap rewards of years of cost-cutting on top of record rates
Although forwarders have increased profit levels due to higher ocean freight rates, it is the shipping lines who are benefitting most. Despite ship charter rates at an all-time high and growing pro...
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