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Guide to freight transportation and logistics. Freight shipping and cargo logistics via all modes of transport including forwarding, cargo, freight, trucking, air freight, cargo shipping, express freight, freight forwarders, intermodal, container companies, third party logistics providers, maritime, moving, storage, railroads, trucking, customs house brokers, steamship companies, transportation brokers, freight clearinghouses, leasing and capital equipment financing, shipment tracking, shipment...

European Policy on Free Trade Sounds Fine but UK Logistics Interests Will Raise an Eyebrow Promises to Encourage Freight Movement Looked Upon Dubiously EUROPE – There will be many among the logistics and freight forwarding community in the UK who will have strong reactions to the latest statements from Brussels and beyond with regard to future EU trade policy. Very few of the comments forthcoming are likely to be appreciative, the industry having had to suffer the tortuous exit from the Comm...

Disgrace of Corrupt Freight Forwarders Tarnishes the Whole Industry Struck Off Perhaps but Surely These Cases Demand Prosecution UK – It seems the good name of logistics continues to be threatened by those who would offer services they have no intention of delivering. While the profession offers a multitude of reliable companies, the bulk of which have professional affiliations, there will always be those who simply look to earn a fast, and illegal, buck. This week the unimaginatively named ...

Israeli RoRo Car Carrier in Gulf of Oman Attacked by Iran Says Netanyahu Syria Hit by Air Strikes in Retaliation and More Threatened GULF OF OMAN – An Israeli-owned Roll-on, Roll-off (RoRo) car carrier suffered damage after she was struck by explosions on Friday night while transiting eastbound through Gulf of Oman. The MV Helios Ray, which is flagged in the Bahamas and operated by Ray Car Carriers, had departed the Saudi Arabian port of Damman for Singapore when it suffered what the Israeli...

Guide to freight transportation and logistics. Freight shipping and cargo logistics via all modes of transport including forwarding, cargo, freight, trucking, air freight, cargo shipping, express freight, freight forwarders, intermodal, container companies, third party logistics providers, maritime, moving, storage, railroads, trucking, customs house brokers, steamship companies, transportation brokers, freight clearinghouses, leasing and capital equipment financing, shipment tracking, shipment...

Guide to freight transportation and logistics. Freight shipping and cargo logistics via all modes of transport including forwarding, cargo, freight, trucking, air freight, cargo shipping, express freight, freight forwarders, intermodal, container companies, third party logistics providers, maritime, moving, storage, railroads, trucking, customs house brokers, steamship companies, transportation brokers, freight clearinghouses, leasing and capital equipment financing, shipment tracking, shipment...

Sad Loss of Two Leading Industry Figures Heads Personnel News This Week A Run Down of Global Supply Chain Related Appointments and Departures UK – Gray & Adams has announced the death of its founder, Jim Gray Snr, who died peacefully in his sleep on February 10, aged 86. Jim Gray formed Gray’s Motor Body Works in 1957 after leaving national service, as a car and body repair facility in Fraserburgh, near Aberdeen. In 1960, Jim Gray was joined by Jim Adams and the company became Gray & Adams....

Six New LNG Powered Box Ships to Serve the US West Coast French Container Line Continues Environmental Efforts FRANCE – US – CHINA – The CMA CGM group, which already runs 12 LNG-powered containerships, is to dedicate six new 15,000 TEU vessels to its Pearl River Express (PRX) line, which sails from China to the Port of Los Angeles. The first of these new vessels is due for delivery in October 2021, with all ships to be fully operational by the end of 2022. CMA CGM says the move means Am...

Union Disgust as Ferry Engine Fire Report Published by Marine Accident Investigators Incident Resulted in Closure of Scottish - Belgian RoRo Freight Service UK – BELGIUM – LITHUANIA – This week saw the publishing of the report by the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) into the fire aboard the RoRo Cargo ferry Finlandia Seaways. The report does not make good reading for the owners and operators of the ship DFDS Seaways AB-Lithuania. The ship, which has now been redeployed to th...

New Online Courses Aimed at Battling Depression and Anxiety of Those Trapped at Sea Charity Launches Two New e-Learning Modules WORLDWIDE – By now everyone in the maritime industry must be aware that the constantly present mental stresses of working at sea, loneliness, absence from home and loved ones etc. have been amplified by the current pandemic. One thing which can assist those trapped sometimes thousands of miles from their home countries is the now common use of internet courses and n...