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EU Freight Transport Funding

The EU Commission is making available some 64M euros to support projects which improve the environmental performance of the freight sector.  Areas whi...
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Posted on April 29, 2010

Finland offers shipping help

The Prime Minister of Finland, in Indonesia for trade talks, offered help and co-operation with Indonesian logistics systems.  Most freight in Indones...
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Japan Shipping expects growth

The biggest shipping line in Japan is forecasting considerable growth this year, due to the gradual economic recovery.  The Far Eastern economies are ...
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Posted on April 27, 2010

London Conference on mis-declared freight

Shippers under-declaring the weight of their container cargo between the UK and the US has been a long-standing problem, with principals eager to shave a s...
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Freight Train Noise

A Scottish MSP is taking up the cause of residents who are disturbed at night by noisy freight trains.  The trains are used to carry coal to Longannet...
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Finland keeps airports closed

Although the situation is returning to normal in Europe, in Finland they are expecting that the threat from the ash cloud may get worse this week.  Th...
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Posted on April 22, 2010

Norway and Sweden ash closures

While most airports in Northern Europe are now open, two Nordic countries have closed some of their airports because of a new cloud of ash from a volcano i...
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Container Shipping Caution

With container shipping companies reporting improved volumes over last year, a freight industry analyst warned that carriers should not be over-optimistic....
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Freight Backlog begins to clear

As airspace in Europe opens, and the UK government admits that safety precautions were over-zealous, carriers and freight forwarders are hoping that they w...
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Air Cargo backlog in Far East

As Far Eastern carriers have been unable to ship freight to Europe due to the Icelandic ash cloud, shippers are having to take cargo back into their wareho...
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Posted on April 20, 2010

Ash Cloud affects Air Freight

With airspace over the United Kingdom closed since Thursday due to a cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash, some fresh food imports have been affected.  Acc...
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Volcanic Ash disrupts Air Freight

Volcanic ash from a volcano in Iceland is causing major disruption across air space in Northern Europe.  Officials said that the ash can damage aeropl...
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Posted on April 15, 2010

New era for shipping

At the recent Global Liner Shipping Conference, one of the main speakers explained that shipping is facing a new era and will never go back to the 'good ol...
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Air freight growth for Korea

The national air carrier of Korea has recorded highest ever first quarter profits due to growth of cargo revenue; the main areas of growth were Japan and C...
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Container Shipping Study

Det Norske Veritas, the ship classification organisation based in Norway, has just published the results of their study about the future of the container s...
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Posted on April 13, 2010

Norway Freight Train Accident

A freight train jumped the tracks and ran out of control into a warehouse building on Wednesday.  It appears that 16 of the cargo wagons came loose fr...
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IFW awards

IFW has announced two new categories for its Annual Award event which will take place on 28 October this year.  'The Rising Star of Freight' will be o...
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Hong Kong record

Air freight volumes through Hong Kong reached a record high in March, with the last week recording an all-time record. The volume of freight in March incre...
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Road Freight Optimism

Confidence in road freight forwarders increased substantially in March, with respondents to Danske Bank's monthly survey saying that they expect freight vo...
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Posted on April 8, 2010

New UK Port

The Government has a approved a scheme for a new port in Bristol, which will allow larger container ships to dock there. Currently some of the larger conta...
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Air Cargo growth

European airlines have benefitted least from the upsurge in air freight volumes in February, but nevertheless have experienced growth compared with the sam...
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WTO forecasts freight growth

The World Trade Organisation forecasts that the global economy will make a substantial recovery in 2010, in defiance of economists who are talking about a ...
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Rail Improvement for Felixstowe

Improvements to the line between Felixstowe and Nuneaton will improve freight services between the port and the Midlands, North West, Yorkshire and Scotlan...
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Posted on April 6, 2010

Auto freight goes by train

A new rail freight service was launched last month for automotive parts being exported from France to Russia.  The service is intended to replace 36 f...
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German freight volumes fall

The German State railway operator has announced that their rail freight and logistics sector suffered most during the recession, producing a big loss in 20...
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Freight Strike France

Adding to the growing trend for industrial action in Europe, the French CGT Union has called on all freight staff, train drivers and controller to begin st...
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New Shipping Line for Russia

The Prime Ministers of Russia and Denmark officially opened a new shipping line on Monday 22 March, signalling an improvement in relations between the two ...
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