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April 2022

Schiphol mandates digitized shipment

Automated Nomination, the digital station declaration of a forwarder’s involvement in the handling of a shipment, has become the standard for inbound shipments at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, which no longer accepts paper declarations as of the 1st of April 2022.Prior to Automated Nomination, ground handlers at Schiphol Airport would have to wait for the freight to arrive and review the corresponding paperwork before a forwarder could be nominated to handle ... [+]

Bolloré Africa Logistics sold to MSC Group

Bolloré Group signed an agreement on April 1 to sell 100% of Bolloré Africa Logistics to the MSC Group. The sale comprises of the Bolloré Group's transport and logistics activities in Africa, on the basis of an enterprise value, net of minority interests, of 5.7 billion euros.The sale remains subject ... [+]

CHAMP Cargosystems, Air Cargo Belgium foster innovation in air cargo

As a result of their long-term partnership, CHAMP Cargosystems and Air Cargo Belgium have launched an innovation platform - powered by CHAMP - to support innovation within the air cargo community.The new platform, which debuted March 13, 2022 at the Air Cargo Belgium Innovation Forum in Brussels, will give access ... [+]

Move Cargo While Striving for Zero Emissions

On April 1, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles launched the Clean Truck Fund rate. The rate – $10 per twenty-foot equivalent unit on loaded import and export cargo containers hauled by drayage trucks as they enter or leave container terminals – will be collected from beneficial cargo ... [+]

J.F. Hillebrand Group AG is now part of DHL

Deutsche Post DHL Group has closed the acquisition of J.F. Hillebrand Group AG (Hillebrand) and its subsidiaries at an equity value of €1.5 billion. After obtaining all necessary regulatory approvals by the required antitrust authorities, the takeover has been consummated. The companies had already signed the purchase agreement in August ... [+]

Port of Corpus Christi in President Biden’s Proposed FY ’23 Budget

The Corpus Christi Ship Channel Improvement Project was included in President Joe Biden’s proposed Fiscal Year 2023 Budget under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Coastal Navigation Construction category. The President’s recommended funding targeted project closeout appropriations of $157.3 million. Once approved by Congress, the appropriation would complete the ... [+]

Seattle reinstated to Eagle Service

MSC is reinstating Seattle to its Eagle Service that it omitted last October due to increased waiting time for vessel berthing at the port.The first sailing will be MAERSK SEVILLE on voyage 214N, estimated to depart Kaohsiung on April 10. The revised port rotation will be as follows: Kaohsiung – Xiamen ... [+]

The Port of Virginia® on Course to Becoming US East Coast’s Deepest Port

The recently approved federal work plan contains the final piece of funding for The Port of Virginia’s dredging project that will create the deepest and widest shipping channels on the US East Coast by late 2024.The work plan, released last week by the US Army Corps of Engineers, allocates funding ... [+]

Turkish Cargo carried 335m doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 61 countries during 2021

Ensuring the continuation of international pharma supply chains while countries closed their doors to one another during the pandemic, Turkish Cargo had a significant success when it comes to vaccine transportation. Being the fastest growing air cargo carrier in the world during 2021 when negative effects of pandemic were ongoing, ... [+]

Aeroterm acquires

Aeroterm, a leading owner and developer of on-airport cargo facilities, has acquired two airport adjacent warehouses in Dorval, Quebec. Located less than 10 minutes from Montréal – Trudeau International Airport and offering a combined total of 220,860 square feet across 13.38 acres, the warehouses are fully leased and have 24 ... [+]

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