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The GEFCO Group, a global player in industrial logistics and the European leader in automotive logistics, welcomes its full container loaded train to France coming from China after a 11,000-km journey. The train transported 40ft containers from Wuhan, China, to Dourges, North of France, for its client PSA, in less than 3 weeks.

Norway has become the first country to become a Contracting State to a key compensation treaty covering the transport of hazardous and noxious substances (HNS) by ship.

British Freight Transport Association (FTA) says that truck platooning could save cost, congestion and carbon says the Freight Transport Association, members of which operate more than 200,000 trucks on Britain’s roads. The announcement of £8.1 million to fund a trial of platooning will do what is needed to test if such a system is ready for use and can deliver the benefits it promises.

Photo taken on June 2, 2018 shows a China Railway (CR) Express cargo train leaving for Minsk from Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province.

Munich hosted the largest logistics fair in the world with new record values from June 4 to 7, 2019. The top topics were the trade war between the USA and China and the shortage of drivers, but the New Silk Road was clearly noticeable at the same time and great hopes were pinned on artificial intelligence in many areas.

Austrian Post will deliver parcels sent by DHL customers to Austria under a new agreement signed with Deutsche Post DHL Group.

Led by Kaspars Ozoliņš, Under-Secretary of State in the Latvian Ministry of Transport, a delegation of leading transport and logistics companies in Latvia visited the ports of Hamburg and Lübeck last week.

European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT) responds with mixed feelings to the publication of the long-anticipated proposals of the European Commission targeting the road transport sector.

The European Commission decided to refer Denmark and Finland to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to properly apply the “cabotage” rules, as laid down in the Regulation (EC) 1072/2009 on access to the international road haulage market.

Tigers has launched SmartHub:Connect, the world’s first combined freight, e-commerce and logistics portal, a cloud-based platform providing visibility across the supply chain.

Where Technology and Logistics Meet

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FTS Eiendom in Norway is set to streamline its flow of goods and expand storage capacity with the help of Rubb fabric structures.

The Brexit episode hasn’t been much fun for Britain’s warehouses, facing the need to build up stocks ahead of the anticipated bottleneck at our ports and the problem of where to store them.

Easipanel is designed for factories and warehouses where there is a requirement to reduce heat and/or glare and UV from entering via existing roof lights, but there is a need to maintain natural light.

Blue Water Gothenburg and Houston have handled the transport of a press hardening line for our client AP & T AB with cargo from Sweden and Germany to the US Photographs – Blue Water Shipping

Date 7 December 2018

Between 25th of March 2018 and 27th of April 2018 the team at Lift & Shift was looking at the mammoth task of delivering 32 pieces of equipment from various yards in Gujarat (L&T Hazira, ISGEC Dahej and Reliance Jamnagar) to 11 projects located in Mumbai High, Saudi Arabia, USA, Sikka, Assam and Haryana.

This Thursday, June 12th, the world’s largest aircraft An-225 Mriya will land at Riga International airport at 14:00. It will arrive in order to carry equipment and machinery of Latvian troops to the European Union military operation area in the Central African Republic.